Nostalgia For an Age Yet to Come
We ask Mark Fisher — author of Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? and the forthcoming Ghosts of My Life (Zer0 Books) — a couple of questions about hauntology: 3:AM: Why do you think the concept has gained currency in the past 5 years or so? It’s a concept that seems to define the zeitgeist, […]
The Luke Haines Manifesto, Or What’s Wrong with Popular Entertainment
It is no secret Haines’s bullshit detector has long made him averse to groups (hence he is now a solo artist), let alone ‘popular movements’. As such, he is condemned to being a musician’s musician, and a writer’s writer. Yet, as with his hero Mark E. Smith, this plays to his strengths and enables him to spare no chancer, from “Banksy telling us what we already know” to the “rock’n’roll managers that come and go like new Dr. Whos”. His reflections on the late 90’s TV nostalgia boom epitomized by the I Love The… TV series (“not so much a TV Show, more a doomsday cult”) sets up a hysterical recollection of Richard Madely’s “millennium cupboard”, part of the TV presenter’s preparation for the Y2K Apocalypse that never came.
Richard Kovitch reviews Luke Haines‘s Post Everything.
Portraits of the authors
When it came to authors – especially the French ones – that was something that grew a couple of years after his time in France. He was always very interested in literature, all kinds of authors, but especially French. I think it came from his own strong literary interest: he was very skilled in the art of writing and this, combined with his unique way of seeing the inner person, created these special portraits.
Susan Tomaselli interviews Henry Köhler, son of neo-modernist painter Carl Köhler and curator of authorportraits.