Weekend Reading List
From the poetry of the late Geoffrey Hill to the new literary genre of the 'ultra-unreal': what to read this weekend
From the poetry of the late Geoffrey Hill to the new literary genre of the 'ultra-unreal': what to read this weekend
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In the wake of the Brexit vote, Slavoj Žižek asks, ‘what does Europe want?’
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‘The strident high
civic trumpeting
of misrule. It is
what we stand for.’
‘Respublica’ by the poet Geoffrey Hill, who died this week.
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For Hilton Als, Nan Goldin’s ‘Ballad of Sexual Dependency’ (1986) remains the seminal photographic collection of the 1980s.
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‘This is all done as if we have no role at all in this drama’ – John Akomfrah, interviewed before the referendum result was announced, on the meaning of Brexit.
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Beyond the simulacrum – China invents the new literary genre of the ‘ultra-unreal’.
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‘In the end postcapitalism is the name of an absence, not a positive programme’ – Owen Hatherley discusses accelerationism and postcapitalism.
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‘The people who fetishize sense all too often end up talking nonsense’ Rosalind Krauss and Jed Perl fight it out over Henri Matisse.
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‘The most inconstant of colours’ – on the alchemical properties and cultural history of green.
