“It’s like living in a weird combination of an Arab sukh and the Grand Canyon with Piccadilly Circus stuck out on a bridge for good measure.”
From Future City - part of David Szondy’s Tales of Future Past site.
With the exception of the above quote, the images are better than the text - and there are […]
I’ve finally made it through Cultural Studies’ Special Double Issue on Everyday Life. There are lots of great articles, and I found the ones below particularly interesting. More later.
The time and space of everyday life by Ian Burkitt
Everyday presences by Andrew Metcalfe and Ann Game
Consumption and digital commodities in the everyday by […]
Venus Table Dancing in front of the Marx Memorial Library.
At Tesugen, Peter Lindberg takes a close look at Bruce Chatwin’s beautiful novel*, The Songlines. One of my favourite exchanges is this:
Certain phrases, certain combinations of musical notes, are thought to describe the action of the Ancestor’s feet. Once phrase would say, ’salt-pan’; another ‘creek-bed’, ’spinifex,’ ’sandhill,’ ‘mulga scrub,’ ‘rockface’ and so forth. An expert […]