3:AM in Lockdown 26: Geert Lovink
This Level of Metaphysics Ain’t no Shit Geert Lovink interviewed by Bram Ieven. BI: In the last couple of weeks we have all sequestered ourselves into self- or state-imposed quarantine. Most of our social interactions now run exclusively through social media platforms. In Organization After Social Media, the book you co-authored with Ned Rossiter, you […]
Poem Brut #83 – long-haired asemics
2020.099
2020.100
2020.101
asemic writing
made with a very long haired sign painters brush
In the 83rd of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Cecil Touchon.
3:AM in Lockdown 25: Andrew Hodgson & Temmuz S. Gürbüz
Confinement. By Andrew Hodgson & Temmuz S. Gürbüz. @andhodgson & @temmuzsr
‘The immense entanglement of everything’: reading Olivia Laing’s Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency under lockdown
Olivia Laing could hardly ask for a more rigorous environment for her essay collection Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency to land in. In it, she pursues a similar argument to Staying Alive. Art, she contends, ‘provide[s] material with which to think: new registers, new spaces.’ Art opens vistas; it makes space. Following John Berger, she makes the case of the ‘hospitality’ of the creative act, its ‘capacity to enlarge and open, a corrective to the overwhelming political imperative … to wall off, separate and reject.’ Writing, painting, photographing, making–these are gestures towards horizons, she argues. They are emancipatory.
Alex Diggins reviews Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing.
3:AM in Lockdown 24: Rupert Thomson
Rupert Thomson writing his new novel in London under lockdown: “Really getting through the biros”. @RupertThomson1