Old Bloke New Music 0002 – Modern Woman vs. The Bleep Test
Episode two of Old Bloke: New Music, in which I continue my entirely unnecessary mission to find out whether there’s still new music capable of getting an old bloke out … Continue reading
The Archivists Project 4
If I were to cross out my own name, what would be the consequence? Would I cease to function as the scribe, or would I cease to have been entirely? … Continue reading
Providence 5 – Lovecraft Out of Context
The contemporary cultural landscape is haunted by an entity that bears only a superficial resemblance to Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Decades after he died in poverty and obscurity, the Providence writer … Continue reading
The Archivist’s Project 1
My name is, perhaps was, Thomas Arthur Cannon. Of that, I am almost certain. I have been in the employ of Upton Campbell, archivist and librarian of my Alma Mater, … Continue reading
Providence 3: Lovecraft Out of Space
If we apply the lens of psychogeography to Lovecraft’s Providence, we stop viewing the setting as mere backdrop for cosmic indifference and instead see the urban environment as an active … Continue reading
The Dead Web: How the Internet Became the Largest Ruin in Human History
I adore Godzilla films, whether the original Toho productions or the more recent Legendary Monsterverse incarnations. Especially Mothra who, along with the Groke, I see as my spirit animal. During … Continue reading
Estate Agents of Doom, or, Scooby Doo vs. the 1%
The cultural artefact known as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? represents a sustained and surprisingly rigorous interrogation of the late twentieth century landscape. To the casual observer, the first two … Continue reading
X-Men: Ghosts of Genomes Past – Part Three
Why the X-Men Never End — memory, seriality and myth. The mutant past is perpetually reimagined, transforming history into a shifting landscape of retroactive continuity. This instability of memory provides … Continue reading
X-Men: Ghosts of Genomes Past – Part Two
Haunting the Present — politics, surveillance and control. The paradoxes of mutant time are embodied in the recurring figure of the future mutant who returns to warn of a catastrophe … Continue reading
X-Men: Ghosts of Genomes Past – Part One
The Haunted Genome — biology and identity. The X-Men represent a particular brand of spectrality, defined less by biological deviation than by the persistent presence of a future that … Continue reading
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