: “The fabric of reality is fraying in England: the old queen is dead, a disgraced prince has been ousted by the new king, his older brother: Gormenghast is changing, and Gormenghast both relies on and…”
Opinion polling graph for the next United Kingdom general election (post-2024) from Wikipedia licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license
: “In a post here back in 2020—entitled Albion: utopianism and the post-apocalyptic pastoral—I mentioned that culture and the arts are the main way to inspire someone about a political viewpoint: …”
Read the rest of “Culture Wars, episode 1: The Fascist Menace”…
: “Back in 2020 I was discussing the out-of-print novel Albion by Brenda Vale and musing on what I’d taken from it, and I wrote: …”
View out from Agios Georgios Beach on Naxos. Photograph by the author.
: “I’ve just returned from a fortnight-long holiday in Greece—a long weekend in Athens, followed by ten days on the island of Naxos—and I’m feeling fully relaxed for the first time in as long as…”
Scene from season two of Andor. Source: Disney+
: “For obvious reasons this post contains spoilers for all the episodes in Andor season 2. …”
: “Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed several people from the US who run personal websites making or pondering decisions about whether they should move their websites onto a non-US server. And…”
Read the rest of “Signs of a growing distrust of US web platforms”…
The political colours of south-east England.
: “Late last week in my current Hove & Portslade constituency the Labour MP (and now cabinet minister) Peter Kyle was elected with a reduced majority, and the Tories were pushed into third place behind…”
Read the rest of “Some thoughts on the UK General Election 2024”…
The Houses of Parliament, photograph by the author
: “When you’re planning to move home there’s suddenly a day when the place that you’ve called home stops being home in some intangible way, and it instead becomes a departure lounge, and then you…”
: “A world-famous painting, worth millions of pounds, has been savagely attacked by activists earlier today. The activists have been arrested by police, who arrived swiftly on the scene to assess the…”
Part of the Hastings Jack in the Green festival in 2023 - photograph by the author
: “From The Guardian in 2011: …”
: “A day may come, as Aragorn might have said, when I finally get back to blogging about my artistic practice — the entire raison d’être of this blog — but it is not this day. …”
Photograph taken by the author.
: “Back in August I wrote about a lot of online advice for artists is framed around the trappings of corporate capitalism, and my deep-felt aversion to the call to adopt these trappings in the…”
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. …”
Read the rest of “The stories we tell ourselves about the world are important”…
My studio (which is also my living room)
: “A lot of online advice for artists is framed around the trappings of corporate capitalism: building your brand, hitting self-imposed targets, maximising sales through targeted marketing, and so on. …”
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…”
Detail from the 2021 drawing Lamentation, by the author
: “Much has already been said about the championing of individualism over community by the likes of Thatcher and others from the 1980s onwards. It is — and continues to be — a weapon used to divide…”
Scene from the final episode of Andor season 1. Source: Disney+
: “I’ve mentioned here before that back in the 1970s and 1980s there seemed to be a myriad of ideas about potential future societies in popular (mainstream/children’s television) science fiction: …”
Read the rest of “Radical futures re-emerging in mainstream science fiction”…
: “One of my first Mastodon posts was a request: …”
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. …”
: “Update: August 2024 - There is now a copy of Stargazy on Zummerdown on the Internet Archive which is now embedded above. …”
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