Posted: 30 April 2013
"How can we even think about designing for a future that we can't imagine?" The first of The Artangel Longplayer Letters, a chain of written correspondence on the subject of long-term thinking, from Brian Eno to Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Photograph of Brian Eno by Nick Robertson
Posted: 14 October 2012
The award-winning author's short story 'Ivory', written following her stay in A Room for London, takes one of the most puzzling characters in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and tries to bring her to life. An audio version is also available.
Posted: 08 October 2012
A Bergson scholar responds to Lindsay Seers' Nowhere Less Now.
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Posted: 25 September 2012
The novelist visits Lindsay Seers' project Nowhere Less Now and wonders which is worse: to destroy everything or to save everything?
Posted: 21 October 2011
Via Locked Room Scenario: Is it possible to provide an a-priori derivation for the weak Spencer Anthony conjecture?
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Posted: 21 October 2011
Via 1395 Days without Red: Nabokov and the gaps of history.
Posted: 19 October 2011
Via Audio Obscura: How waiting's spiritual dimension was lost, and then forgotten, and could be remembered again.
Posted: 14 October 2011
A Beckett scholar visits Locked Room Scenario.
Posted: 07 October 2011
Sarajevan writer Ozren Kebo reflects on life during the siege and Šejla Kamerić's 1395 Days without Red.
Posted: 20 September 2011
Mary Aurory and Spencer Anthony: two of the protagonists in Locked Room Scenario.
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Posted: 14 September 2011
Audio Obscura makes us walk through a train station as if in a gallery. What do we see?
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Posted: 31 August 2011
An introduction to the Audio Obscura publication, published in July 2011 by Full Circle Editions.
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Posted: 24 August 2011
A locked room has many meanings. Is it wise to want to enter?
Posted: 09 May 2011
Two futurists - John Gray and James Lovelock - have a conversation. A third, Mark Stevenson, looks for silver linings.
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Posted: 07 December 2010
Realtime thoughts from a Square Mile tour of Susan Philipsz's SURROUND ME.
Posted: 23 November 2010
Songs, money, language, cuts, tears, notes, capital: SURROUND ME.
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Posted: 16 November 2010
An anticyclone-shaped walk through the City of London.
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Posted: 09 November 2010
In Detroit, at the maiden voyage of Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead, an author sees metaphors collide.
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Posted: 02 November 2010
Susan Philipsz's glittering Lachrimae: a new view of a city side street.
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Posted: 26 October 2010
A music critic enjoys hearing SURROUND ME's songs in the right locations - albeit at the wrong time.
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Posted: 23 June 2010
The Concise Dictionary of Dress: what happens to fashion when we don't know its provenance?
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Posted: 23 June 2010
The Concise Dictionary of Dress and the beauty of archives.
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Posted: 16 June 2010
An excerpt from The Concise Dictionary of Dress's Violette Editions publication.
Posted: 09 June 2010
How The Concise Dictionary of Dress underlines the role of absence in fashion.
Posted: 02 June 2010
The Concise Dictionary of Dress: "Essential" andThe Mnemosyne Atlas.
Posted: 26 May 2010
Wandering through The Concise Dictionary of Dress, a Senior Curator of Fashion at the V&A finds a new perspective on the strangeness and silence of the museum archive.