occultural studies column By Eugene Thacker 23 August 2012In an appreciation of Worcestershire goths, And Also The Trees, Eugene Thacker digs the 'unconditional sadness' which connects their music to a melanc...
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fifth column By Benedict Seymour 8 July 2014Trying to do labour politics in the artworld would be like attempting union organising in Game of Thrones. Discuss....
And now, a brief fant...
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fifth column By Benedict Seymour 6 April 2014The Domino sugar factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is currently being torn down and replaced with massive condominiums.
As it happens, these ...
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fifth column By Benedict Seymour 28 March 2014
[This little screed was written as a facebook post but seemed worth giving a minutely longer half life... It responds to this article: ...
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fifth column By Benedict Seymour 21 December 2013
The world of animated gifs is 'another nature': a land of cockayne in which something crazy is always happening, business people walking dow...
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fifth column By Benedict Seymour 20 August 2012Shot at while eating alfresco in Broadway Market, E8. I think it's some kind of karma. Certainly another episode for the East London Book of the Dead....
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fifth column By Benedict Seymour 21 July 2012Should workers be organising their own counter-Olympics today? Or did they already run one back in August 2011?
The Tate is screening 'The New...
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