Category: General
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[x] springs eternal
If a poet wants to say anything meaningful about the world, he must not push the world away from himself or seek in any way to avoid it. Despite the best of plans and intentions, the world is more chaotic than ever, and this chaos is pushing it with increasing speed toward self-destruction. The poet must…
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a celebration of endings
It’s Biffy fuckin’ Clyro, ye radge. (Not that you could tell from this photo; my down-the-front days are long gone.) Rescheduled from February due to You Know What, this gig (last night at Den Grå Hal, Christiania, Copenhagen) happened to fall on the night before the last day of my contract at Lund. I’ve not…
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malevolent pigs
Seems like there’s skulduggery afoot in the Baltic: The three leaks — two in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline north-east of Bornholm, and one in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline south-east of the island — caused disturbances in the sea up to 1km wide, according to the Danish defence forces. @FinancialTimes https://www.ft.com/content/294e441d-7b24-4144-a51f-75bdf70d723c I have largely…
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maureen
I can’t recall the first time I meet Maureen Kincaid Speller, but I assume (with some sense of certainty) that it would have been at one of the first few BSFA gatherings I attended in London, some time back in the Noughties. I found her an easy person to like, which is rarer than you…
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farvel Stavanger
Stimulating handful of days here in Stavanger for the Petrocultures conference, at which a bunch of us Climaginarians performed yet another instance of the increasingly sprawling Carbon Ruins extended cinematic universe. Lots of interesting panels and talks, obvs, plus the productive cognitive dissonance of enviro-critical scholars holding an event at a national oil museum… and…