The first of my generation has made it. While shopping with my mum today in Tesco, we/she bought Gwyneth Herbert‘s album. Gwyneth was in the year above me at uni. In fact, the first thing I ever ‘reviewed’ was a gig of hers. She was[…]

Some Thoughts on Britney and Paris as Socio-Cultural Bellwethers.
Two unrelated points that I think mean something but am unsure exactly what.
1) I have heard in the last 3 days, Britney Spears single Toxic three times, once at a strip club and twice[…]

OBIT: Jacques Derrida :( :( :(
yes i know JD wz actually saying that ‘grammatology’ *wasn’t* a science, and couldn’t be, absent the impossible ?transcendental signifier”, but argts abt what science is and isn’t ma[…]

the ineffectiveness of the transparently fake debate
the times is currently pushing itself as a forum for lively debate, in particular with a series of ads featuring Harry Hill and Sanjeev Bhaskar fake-arguing about “the best film of all time&[…]