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Marketing has within a decade undergone a shift in form — from overt to covert promotion. Ours is the present in which ‘content’ triumphs…

When the philosopher, literary critic, feminist and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva added ‘novelist’ to her list of designations with The…

The relationship between mass-production and ‘the individual’ has never been straight forward. The alienating forms of labour associated…

Further to a previous note ( “§72 Bluffing human sciences”) diagnosing the illiterate university the following provides George Steiner’s…

In Note §68, I considered the tension between monetary value and artworks in light of the spectacle surrounding Banksy’s Love is in the…

Much contemporary literature sees the city-spaces that are not inherently marked by capitalist exchanges as constituting positive forms of…

One of the aspects of the ‘intellectual dark web’ form of ‘public intellectualism’ (Weiss 2018) is the similarity to ancient gladiator…

While one of Foucault’s major contributions is the recognition of a transformational break around 1800 in terms of disciplinary power…

James Watson, the co-‘discoverer’ of the DNA molecule once said:

Our fast-paced present breeds intellectual impatience and experiential insatiability. Is ours not an age advanced enough for four…

“We have been Banksy-ed” declared art experts at Sotheby’s after the original Girl with Balloon art-work was shredded just seconds after…

Sarah Churchwell’s Behold America: A History of America First and the American Dream (2018) provides a genealogical account of two…

“…Alfred … finds… nature — quite threatening because it is quite uncontrolled and it makes him cold, and it blows him away…His inspiration…

It’s hard to escape. The board room, the class room or a farmhouse in the Cotswolds. Be aware — its about to get mental.

Classical pianist Alfred Brendel is widely considered one of the greatest of our times. In a BBC documentary he is presented as a…

“It’s kind of amazing to be away from it for a few weeks. You know, I happened in June to be in some place where I wasn’t watching…

At one end of our contemporary ‘culture wars’, President Donald Trump is a figure of pure and unadulterated banter: a source of celebration…

Alongside the proliferation of brewers, flavours, styles, hops, and processes of fermentation, the ‘craft beer movement’ has taken the art…

Visit any of Europe’s art museums or sites of historical interest and you will find hordes of people who flew hundreds (sometimes…

A fake pop star becomes a fake fashion designer before becoming a fake style icon in an increasingly fake magazine.

If ever you needed proof that social justice is now simply a marketing tool baked into corporate culture, look no further than Nike’s…

A 2002 BBC4 documentary about Ian Hamilton shows the critic and poet as sceptical of the explanatory role of biographies to creative…

It is well-documented that despite social and political causes to the contrary (i.e., attempts to allow productivity gains to supplement…

While Albert Hofmann (1906–2008) is considered the ‘inventor’ of LSD, the Swiss chemist was himself under the influence: …of Ernst Jünger…