The barriers to entry have changed, into the pass card envisaged by Guattari and Ballard. The threads of control maintain the weight of surveillance across the network of society, with knowledge of taste offering leverage to greater and more consistent profit margins. As we deplete the resources of our near-spent […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
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The political statement of my thesis is absent.The prioritising of the critical gaze over and above that of the common reader is irrelevant. Starobinski (1989) argues that the eye (mind, acuity) of the critic is attenuated to appreciate the nuance of great over humdrum. The canon remains, and the instructional […]
This kind of question can tip over into sarcasm. I try to be open, transparent, around the ideas that there are certain subjects that I absolutely and explicitly must not write about. This is not an act of editorial cowardice or self-denial but as a white man of (very distant) […]