Previously unpublished shot of The Duellist, part of the Acid Renaissance series, by the author.
: “The Duellist — of which I’ve published two versions: The Duellist (1) and The Duellist (2) — has been hanging around the inside of my head for a few months now, maybe longer. …”
The characters C. Auguste Dupin and Roderick Usher in a still from The Fall of the House of Usher. Source: Netflix
: “This blog post contains spoilers for the 2023 TV series The Fall of the House of Usher and probably for season 1 of the 2022 TV series Andor. …”
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Previously unpublished shot from the series Study of a Figure in the Court of Queen Mab, part of the Acid Renaissance series, by the author.
: “As I continue with the final preparation for my Saints & Martyrs artwork (which I wrote about back in August), most of my thoughts have been about surrealism. …”
Still from Michael Radford’s film version of George Orwell’s novel 1984
: “This blog post is mainly concerned with the overlapping and/or adjacent spheres of hauntology, folk horror, the weird/wyrd, and other related subject areas, but the conclusions can probably be…”
Plans for nuclear fusion powered flying saucer by British Rail - Patent No. GB1310990A
: “In 1973 British Rail, Britain’s then nationalised railway service (which for the youngsters was, despite the contemporary 1970s jokes about British Rail sandwiches, far better than the privatised…”
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Dr Callum Sutherland (left) and myself (right)
: “Back on 19th November 2021 I was interviewed over Zoom by Dr Callum Sutherland (pictured above, on the left) as part of his research. …”
: “I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies,…”
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Bacchanalia Beneath the Wind Turbines, by the author
: “I’m a visual artist, so this brief piece about Mark Fisher’s draft introduction to his planned book Acid Communism (sadly never to be realised due to his premature death) examines the concept from…”
Part of the cover to the book Albion by Brenda Vale
: “The problem with modern democracy is that it has thoroughly convinced everyone that you only get one chance to improve society every five years. …”
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Photograph by the author
: “I’ve lifted the term “post-apocalyptic pastoral” from a book review by Goodreads user Terry from Toronto who effectively seeded my reading list by citing Richard Jefferies’ After London: or,…”
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Previously unpublished photograph from the Keeper of the Archives shoot, by the author
: “In a recent blogpost Ellen Rogers wrote of her current Gnosis project: …”
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: “I’m starting to see more people talking about the need to imagine the future, which is both fantastic and absolutely necessary. …”
: “Back in the 1970s there seemed to be such a myriad of ideas about potential shared futures, exploring all aspects of the political, social, and cultural. The aim of neoliberal capitalism of the 1980s…”
: “I have, of late, been wittering on about radical visions of the future. It started in November with No one dreams of England’s future any more, and then The Ghosts of Christmas Futures which was…”
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Two sketches of figures by the author
: “2018 has been my most financially successful year as an artist, primarily due to my England's Dark Dreaming book (fewer than 75 copies left at time of writing!). However when I say my most financially…”
Still from Quatermass TV series
: “No one seems to dream of England’s future any more, just its imagined past. When the post-modernists proclaimed (again) “the end of history” what they should have been announcing, in England at…”
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