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From the blurb: What do ethicists and moral philosophers really think about? What are the most pressing concerns in the discipline today? This collection of interviews with a range of interesting and original thinkers in the field provides a snapshot of contemporary ethics in all its complexity and nuance. It contains 25 probing interviews conducted by Richard Marshall of the cultural magazine 3:AM, each consisting of a carefully condensed version of the interview, preceded by a brief biography of the interview subject. Marshall’s questions are deeply knowledgeable while always accessible to the layperson, and the interviewees respond in kind with

[Patti Smith, Nova Convention, 1978 © James Hamilton William Burroughs, Nova Convention, 1978 © James Hamilton] Photographs by James Hamilton Curated by Thurston Moore & Eva Prinz EACC – Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello Opening: Friday, June 2, 8 pm Thurston Moore will perform ‘Solo Acoustic Show’, 9 pm EACC – ESPAI D’ART CONTEMPORANI DE CASTELLÓ Carrer de Prim, s/n 29004 Malaga Schedule: From Tuesday to Saturday, 10 am – 14 pm and 4 pm – 8 pm Sunday, 10 am – 2 pm Tel. +34 964 723 540 eacc@eacc.es Organized by EACC and Contemporanea Curated by Thurston Moore &

Peter Kivy was a leading figure in aesthetics and taught for many years at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he was emeritus. He was interviewed as part of the End Times series for at 3:AM An extract: ‘But, lo and behold, when we enter the realm of philosophy of literature, we discover that we do not really know what enthralls us about narrative fiction. We do not know why story-telling so enthralls us. And, again, the philosopher’s instinct is to find something beyond the story, hidden in the story, which, on first reflection, we have missed, that does enthrall us,

Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class is crowdfunding on Kickstarter now. In less than three days it has overtaken the halfway mark of Dead Ink’s target. The book asks various working class writers to reflect on aspects of their lived experience as it relates to the UK’s class system. There are 22 essays in total, with contributions from Kit De Waal, Andrew McMillan, Yvonne Singh, Kate Fox, Catherine O’Flynn, Lee Rourke and Sam Mills. Topics covered include food, sexuality, music, accents and mental health. The Editor, Nathan Connolly, has described the book as a

We’ve started to spread the word and so it’s of course worth mentioning here that 3:AM Magazine is back on Facebook. Visit our page, like it, comment, tell us what you think of us, share our content, whatever – do your worst.

Four Interviews on Aesthetics The four interviews collected in this volume were done in an attempt to understand the value of art and to foreground its importance. four by three magazine editors Christine Jakobson and Bernard Hay have spoken with leading philosophers Paul Guyer and Andrew Bowie, as well as with Palme d’Or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Turner Prize winning artist Susan Philipsz, in order to illustrate the ways in which artworks reflect on fundamental historical, political and ethical issues, while giving voice to the deep affinities and differences that philosophy and art share.

The 2nd English PEN Modern Literature Festival: 30 writers, poets, novelists, playwrights and artists come together to continue English PEN’s relationship with innovative contemporary literature over one extraordinary day. The writers will present brand new poetry, text, reportage & performance, each celebrating and evidencing the struggle of a fellow writer from around the world, currently supported by the English PEN writers-at-risk programme.

17th of March to 30th of April 2017 WE ARE CUTS, a Soho institution since 1984, at 33A Dean St, proudly presents LES P’TITES FEMMES DE SOHO THE PERFECT ESCAPADE an art show by Anne Pigalle We live in a time where the ruling elite and the landowners, who own the urban spaces, and only seem interested in lining their own pockets, are increasingly destroying the soul of our communities and crushing culture as we have known it, forcing the locals to move out and closing down even protected venues as to make a quick buck. Soho is a prime

A philosopher’s philosopher, very influential and impressive. His argument regarding the unimportance of personal identity led to these reflections: ‘When I believed [that personal identity is what matters], I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between my life and the lives of other people. But the difference is less. Other people are closer. I