In his recent piece on the administration of fear, Mark Thwaite asks whether “The Ministry of Fear is not just the name of a novel but a name for what novels are?” Does Art itself have as one of its tasks the administration of fear, t...

Lots of new stuff on the indispensable backdoorbroadcasting.net: ... starting with the 2013 Hayes Robinson lecture – which is an annual lecture from the department of History at Royal Holloway:Richard Kagan – The Plaza and the Squar...

Fabulous looking event: WWTBD – What Would Thomas Bernhard Do Talks, discussions, lectures, films, performances, concerts, partiesMay 17–26, 2013 Daily 2pm–2am Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier Museumsplatz 1 1070 Wien, Austria ...

Let's be clear: My Struggle is not about the life of Karl Ove Knausgaard. The interminable specifics of the content are superficial necessities for an experiment in stretching the everyday to such a degree that it becomes translucent... ...

Goodness! Nothing from me for almost three months. I think that's my longest spell of blogging silence ever. I've been working too hard and playing far too little, and that looks set to continue for a while. Regardless, I have a few fine...