The Funnies
Comic news round-up: “One day in 1977, I bought the first issue of 2000 AD. Thirty years later, I bought it again along with most of the following eleven hundred and eighty eight issues in a moment of madness in an eBay auction. Obviously, this would be a total waste of money if I didn’t […]
The Vertigo of Late Modernity
Young talks throughout the book of ‘blurring’. In the beginning he uses the term to describe the “blurring of the borders” of classes within cities. He dispels the widely recognised ‘dual city’ theory, that a city’s prosperous classes are spatially separate from its poorer classes. He instead points out that far from being excluded from the communities of the middle and higher classes, the lower classes pass each day into those same communities: as workers and as servants: cleaning the houses, stocking shelves, maintaining the gardens of the higher classes.
Glenn Fisher enjoys Jock Young‘s The Vertigo of Late Modernity.
Don’t Fuck McDonalds
i have to go but the floor is wet
i bet a jet plane had an accident
this is a boring place to be a jet plane
where dale earnhardt kills unicorns
By Mike Young.
De-Googled: Chris Petit
But the difference between 1993 and now is that it was quite easy then to think of shocking or offensive material. Now everything is more virtual and cartoon-like. No one is surprised anymore, even by genocide, and, thanks to the internet, everyone now knows the price of everything. Robinson was an interesting barometer of depravity. What I’m not sure of any more, is what that depravity might be now.
Andrew Stevens talks to novelist and film-maker Chris Petit.
Wipe-Out
At home there is a note, saying YOU ARE NOT TO DISTURB ME TONIGHT. He writes it in all caps. He says I am not grateful. I am not, he is right.
By Claudia Smith.