Is this the World’s narrowest evaluation trench? No. Its a cut I made across our garden for ducting to carry electricity to a new garage. But every time I dig holes in our garden, which has been many times over the last 15 years, I have learned a little more …
It was one of those times when you read something and think, WHAT!! The something in this case being Susan Buck-Morss (1977) The Origin of Negative Dialectics. Just to be clear, this book explores the interrelated of Walter Benjamin and Theodore Adorno as they developed between the 1920s and 40s, …
The future was a beautiful place, once. Remember the full-blown balsa-wood town on public display in the Civic Hall. The ring-bound sketches, artists’ impressions, blueprints of smoked glass and tubular steel, board-game suburbs, modes of transportation like fairground rides or executive toys. Cities like dreams, cantilevered by light. And people …
Ruins in reverse is an exhibition in the Project Space at Tate Modern between 1 March – 24 June 2013. According to the rather nice, free, catalogue for the exhibition: “Ruins in Reverse takes its title from an idea found in Robert Smithson’s 1967 essay A Tour of the Monuments …
Introduction This is an experiment I have considered trying for some time. To measure the speed of light it requires only a)some grated cheese (clearly hard cheeses are to be preferred) and b)a microwave oven. Here I used our old Sharp oven, and a large plate sprinkled withTesco’s mild cheddar. …
Last night I dreamed I went to Broadcasting House again. It seemed to me I crossed the road from the Church of All Souls and pushed open the heavy bronze doors, beneath Eric Gill’s statue of Arial with it’s (supposedly) truncated genitals. I must have done this a thousand times, …
Binbag pavement, Basement shine, Tuning up To another line. Doors are empty, Lights all closed. No one speaking, No one knows. Tatoed lady Speaks in riddles; Turns the cards, As the fiddler fiddles. Singing songs His words are lies, Draws his bow At acheing skies. In the …
Petrie wiped their mandible. Report of Preliminary Archaeological Survey of Sokar IV Planet is solid mass, mainly silicon with high ferrous content. Volcanism evident from cones and numerous igneous deposits. Drift geology indicate past presence of aitchto-o. There are 10 sites of archaeological interest on planet, all originating from Sokar …
THE DOORS Of PERCEPTION: A mutualist account of entrances and exits. “If the doors of perception were cleansed, Everything would appear to man as it is….” (William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell) Entrance ‘Each generation,’ says Leontiev, ‘begins its life in a world of objects and phenomena created …