An interview with Adriano Shaplin, the Riot Group
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What Good Are the Arts?, by John Carey (Faber 2005)
An interview with Danny Morrison, Irish republican and playwright
Continue reading “You’ve got a tongue in your head after all”
An interview with David Jubb, artistic director, BAC
Continue reading “BAC-chat: critics, audiences and the importance of the café bar”
In Identity, a short book based on an email exchange between Zygmunt Bauman and Italian journalist Benedetto Vecchi, the sociologist discusses the question of identity in the context of what he calls ‘liquid modernity’. Bauman’s thesis, set out in his book of that name (2000), is that we have moved from a solid to a fluid phase of modernity, in which nothing keeps its shape, and social forms are constantly changing at great speed, radically transforming the experience of being human.
How critics of ‘declinism’ are more conservative than they make out
In the twenty-first century, ‘knowledge’ is talked about everywhere but found nowhere. Continue reading “No meaning to knowledge”
Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy, by Susan Neiman, Princeton University Press 2003 Continue reading “Why is life so unfair?”
Judaism and Enlightenment, by Adam Sutcliffe, Cambridge University Press 2003 Continue reading “Judaism and Enlightenment”
Dolan Cummings 