David Friend’s “Watching the World Change”
The Times has a favorable review of David Friend’s recent study of the photography of September 11th, Watching the World Change. Besides being a well-written and impressively researched study of the...
View ArticleBallard on Fascism and Consumerism
JG Ballard interviewed about his new novel Kingdom Come:
View ArticleCreative Time’s “Who Cares”
Last year, Creative Time invited me to be part of a series of discussions on the topic of politics in contemporary art. The series, organized by Doug Ashford, included a lot of great people, and now...
View Article“Who Cares” Book Launch at the NY Art Book Fair
The Who Cares book launches this Friday at 5pm at the NY Art Book Fair. The whole fair looks interesting with Walid Raad, John Lurie, Silvia Kolbowski and others presenting new publications.
View ArticleAnother bunch of random links and quotes
* "Shoot all scriptwriters," he wrote in his popular, long-running Village Voice column, "and we may yet have a rebirth of American cinema." * "The original plan for the film was that every shot would...
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Stanislaw Lem on Psychogeography
From Lem's sci-fi detective novel, The Investigation: The little game has always fascinated Gregory when he was nineteen. He used to stand in the middle of a crowd without knowing until the last minute...
View ArticleWhen the going gets weird, the weird get Ballardian…
Simon Sellars' Ballardian is an odd enterprise: not just a Web site devoted to the works of JG Ballard, but a blog devoted to events that are in some way Ballardian. Amazingly, it works. For example,...
View ArticleJust Published: POETICS OF CINEMA 2 by Raul RUIZ
From Dis Voir: Following his research in Poetics of Cinema, 1 on new narrative models as tools for apprehending a fast-shifting world, Raul Ruiz makes with Poetics of cinema 2 an appeal for an entirely...
View ArticleWho made this artwork?
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine, the artist Judi Werthein, asked me to participate in a book project she is organizing. The project involves, in her words, writing “a story you’ve been told...
View ArticleReading, Libraries, and the Kindle
After putting aside a couple hundred books for sale this week, I realized all books have a shelf life. Some books might be lifelong keepers, but many of the rest, including tell-alls about the Bush...
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