Where I discuss the New Aesthetic again…
So I haven’t really bothered following up the responses to my Furtherfield article earlier this year, where I, kind of, lamented The New Aesthetic. That was in the middle of April. It’s been 3 months...
View ArticleWeather and Mood: A Query
So in the UK, we’re often prone to moaning about the weather. Sometimes its with good reason; sometimes you really do get all four seasons in one day, well in Devon anyway. The summer of 2012 has been...
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Why not buy a clock which counts down your life?
Forget those clocks which count down the day, or tell you the actual time – buy a life clock? You can get one HERE. Yes its a bit morbid – but then again, what have you got to be afraid of? Warning –...
View ArticleThings Grasped by Machines
Hegel’s definition of absolute knowledge in the form of Logic emerges as the following: Logic is the ability to grasp things in thought. “Grasp” then, is quite a good word. When we deduce, understand a...
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The Fourfold of Speculative Realism (a work in progress – UPDATED)
[UPDATED – after an illuminating Twitter discussion with Pete Wolfendale and Shane Denson, I’ve updated the post to include their necessary and helpful contributions. Warning – its 3130 words or so.]...
View ArticleRunning at people with flaming barrels: The Flaming Tar Barrels of Ottery St....
Last night I had a great dinner with Aron Vinegar and caught up with some stuff we’re doing (he’s chairing the Matters of Fact session for AAH 2014, in case you were wondering). Side note: what is it...
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Michael Bay and the “fear of death” Anxiousness in Presenting
By now, I think everyone has seen the excruitatingly painful video of “blockbuster film director with a porn sensibility” Michael Bay getting stage fright and walking off mid-presentation at CES2014....
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The Nintendo Gateway System
Bit of Nintendo fan-boy post this – but how many people know that in the mid-1990s, Nintendo build and installed an Hotel and in-flight console called The Nintendo Gateway System, which could play...
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COD philosophy
In an otherwise unremarkable and flaccid Guardian promo on next years iteration of the Call Of Duty (COD) franchise, I happened to spot this little unintentional gem. Don’t you just hate it when once...
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