Buzzwords

Fiction inspired by Pete Shelley and Buzzcocks, Love Bites is a collection of solicited and unsolicited work published online and offline at Dostoyevsky Wannabe and 3:AM Magazine. In the first part, the editors approched a range of writers and asked them to respond to particular songs by Buzzcocks and Pete Shelley with a work of short-fiction/prose. Please see below for details of the second part of the book, the open submission. Open Submission: For sale: Spiral Scratch 7-inch single. One careful owner. Inspired by the immediacy and brevity of the 3-minute pop song, the two-note guitar solo, and in keeping

  COMING UP +THIS SATURDAY+1st DECEMBER L-13 will be taking part in THE UNCORRECTED independent publishers’ fair SEASONAL EDITION Hosted by THE PECKHAM PELICAN 92 Peckham Road London SE15 5PY 11am – 6pm Click here  for  Facebook event  details. FIVE Independent Publishers * L-13 Light Industrial Workshop *Make Mud Press *  Open Pen Books *  Tangerine Press *  Walden Press * Please note: The fair is on BOTH Saturday and Sunday but L-13 workers are on WEEKEND STRIKE/lazy slackers so will only be present on Saturday. L-13 table will include First copies of  JIMMY CAUTY Advanced Acoustic  Armaments COOKBOOK  REGULAR

Oxford Think Festival Celebrating the quest for knowledge and stimulating debate. BY  KIM BEHRENS OCTOBER 15TH  2018 Oxford University Press is delighted to once again partner with Blackwell’s Oxford to host a weekend of talks and discussions. After three successful years as the  Oxford Philosophy Festival, the event returns this year as the  Oxford Think Festival. Celebrating the quest for knowledge and seeking to stimulate discussion of some of the big issues and ideas of our time, the festival brings together some of our most inspiring and exciting minds. Join us for a full weekend of debates and discussion, a

  Stewart Home, Louis Armand and Johnny Pulp read from their new books. 10th November, 8.00pm onwards. The Wheatsheaf: 25 Rathbone Place, London, W1T 1JB Stewart Home’s Re-Enter The Dragon. Genre Theory, Bruceploitation and the Sleazy Joys of Lowbrow Cinema is ‘HEAD KICKING BRICK BREAKING MAYHEM! Stewart Home’s going point to point so we can start learning up. In fact this kind of point-to-pointing is typical in Home, who often lays down detail after detail, even when his first is damning enough. The technique and approach he uses for capturing his phenomena is part of the curious feeling you often get

Helen Beebee is appearing at the festival this weekend. Read her new interview with 3:AM here. 2018 Festival Programme Sat 22nd September Sun 23rd September We’ve already highlighted some of the philosophers at the event who we’ve interviewed at 3:AM here. ‘The interpretation I prefer – call it the ‘projectivist’ interpretation – is just as you said: causation is just something our minds impose on events out there in the world. We do, in fact, infer effects from causes.’ ‘Lewis says that our aim as philosophers is to find out ‘what equilibria there are that can withstand examination’, where an

Monday 1 October, 2pm / The Royal Institution Technologist Chelsea Manning is in conversation with artist and writer James Bridle, discussing the rise of artificial intelligence and the role of AI in public policy, the state of the data economy, and the issues faced by transgender people today. A network security expert, Manning is a vocal advocate for government transparency and LGBTQ+ rights. Among topics to be explored with Bridle are the emergence of details surrounding the Panama Papers and Edward Snowden, as well the relationship of digital technologies to democracy – if, their use by Cambridge Analytica shows that

2018 Festival Programme Sat 22nd September Sun 23rd September We’ve already highlighted some of the philosophers at the event who we’ve interviewed at 3:AM here.   Another one is Sean Carroll the philosophically-minded physicist. Sean Carroll is the uber-chillin’ philosophical physicist who investigates how the preposterous universe works at a deep level, who thinks spats between physics and philosophy are silly, who thinks a wise philosopher will always be willing to learn from discoveries of science, who asks how we are to live if there is no God, who is comfortable with naturalism and physicalism, who thinks emergentism central, that