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Why is there so little political resistance/activism these days? We know...
The depressing answers are basically to do with bread and circus and the immense flexibility of late-capitalism and particularly consumerism. We live in a world where entertainment is bundled and...
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Why do so many young writers choose weird (to me – sorry!) genres like...
Because they’re cool? With steampunk in particular there’s a desire for a coherent visual aesthetic. I think this is partly related to almost tribal desires for cultural coherence. Ironically, it’s...
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Would it be better (how much?) if we described people in shades of brown and...
FULL SPECTRUM GO! Ahem. In seriousness, I’m almost always in favour of understanding things in spectral terms rather than binaries. And really, the more axes and parameters you have, the more identity...
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Are things getting better or worse? Not money, more important things than that.
You’d think I’d be more cynical as I’m waking up. But right now, I’ve got the sound of a slightly balkanised cover of Sound + Vision by David Bowie marching it’s way through my barely living brain....
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Why do I care about Chantelle and Preston?
Because you are a soft fleshy mortal human. And you recognise some similar traits the the two of them. I’ll be honest. I haven’t been following the goings on in the Big Brother house for a while. I...
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