Transgressive Culture
This excites: Transgressive Culture is a new international journal to be published by Gylphi. It concerns the limits – in all of their guises – and what lies beyond them. The journal aims include: (1) questioning the meaning and significance of transgressive culture; (2) understanding more deeply how this reflects on contemporary culture; and (3) […]
Taking candy from a dog
Poetry publishers Blackheath Books – 3:AM‘s Publisher of the Year 2009 – venture into the world of novels with Vic Templar’s Taking Candy From A Dog: Stories and episodes from the life of a boy are threaded together by the musings of a threadbare sock monkey called Luke. The monkey haunts (or taunts?) the man […]
Out Of Sheer Rage
In the UK the repression of anger built up in what Sloterdijk calls ‘rage banks’: valves occasionally released on designated targets. Aristotle justified anger and hatred against those who have everything. Politicians and commentators in the late twentieth century gave his thesis a bizarre twist: they advocated rage against those who have nothing. It seems that not a day has gone by in living memory without a dubious story in some national newspaper about immigrants, beggars and benefit fraudsters supposedly living in Knightsbridge mansions at the expense of the rest of us. Read the comments on newspaper websites and you’ll see people take this seriously. The discourse, visceral as it is, is nothing like noble thymos. It’s the politics of envy, resentment, self-pity, victimhood and miserabilism.
Max Dunbar reviews Peter Sloterdijk‘s Rage and Time.
3:AM Cult Hero: Kathy Acker
“I’m working at trying to find a kind of language where I won’t be so easily modulated by expectation.” Andrew Stevens on Kathy Acker and her 1984 masterpiece: In fairness, the controversy that raged over Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School appears tame by the standards of more recent literary purges over depictions […]