'South Korean companies are sending employees on "fake funeral" courses to help prevent suicide. The "well-dying craze" has become an integral part of training at Samsung, which has built its own fake funeral centre'

In her recent book, Irrational Modernism, Amelia Jones advances a ‘neurasthenic’ reading of the New York Dada scene, centred on the marginalised figure of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven whose eccentricities, bizarre dress code and self-ostracising stench embodied and challenged the spirit of Dada.

After Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem is one of the more celebrated situationist theorists. This short sketch of a forerunner to the group of which he was once a leading light, says more about Vaneigem’s theoretical weaknesses than it does about his ostensible subject. Vaneigem usefully stresses the specificity of surrealism, concentrating on its differences to dada.