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Mister Trippy
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The totally tripped out guide to drug culture, cult cinema, counterculture, contemporary art, 1960s, today, radical twentieth-century culture, beatniks, London, true crime, odd books, psychedelia and occulture. It's a groove sensation baby!
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transcript by Heimrad Backer
Heimrad Backer’s book of concrete poetry transcript (to be published in Patrick Greaney and Vincent Kling’s English translation by Dalkey Archive next March) consists entirely of quotations of material relating to the holocaust seen from ...
The only reasonable perspective on Martin Heidegger is that he was a complete scumbag!
One of the things that really depresses me about post-graduate fine art education in London is that the Nazi thug Martin Heidegger has become central to the teaching of many theory modules on practice-led courses. Heidegger wasn’t your ordinary...
Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing
On Saturday night I read at Volatile Dispersal, a festival of art writing held at the Whitechapel Gallery. The event proved so crowded and popular that it was hard to take very much in. I found this ironic because after I’d used my FaceBook acc...
A possible appointment in Old Street with the literary heir of Ray ‘The Cat’ Jones…
A few days ago I got an email from Michael Morgan, who’d acted as press agent for Ray ‘The Cat’ Jones (the greatest burglar ever and one of my mother’s cousins to boot): “I wonder if you could find time and get in touch ...
Legend of the Witches directed by Malcolm Leigh
Back in 1970 this allegedly ’serious’ documentary about witchcraft sneaked a lot of full frontal nudity past the British censor and was then screened in sex cinemas for the enjoyment of the dirty raincoat brigade. It acts as a kind of com...
Yes, the bozos who claimed I was Belle de Jour were completely deluded!
A 34 year-old Bristol based research scientist called Dr Brooke Magnanti has outed herself as the ‘real’ author of the Belle de Jour blog and books. These texts ‘documented’ the life of a high-class London call girl. Dr Magnan...

