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28 Feb 2026

On the Seven Noses of Soho

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One of the Seven Noses of Soho by Rick Buckley (1997) (Meard Street, London W1) Photo by Stephen Alexander (Feb 2026)     I.    Connecting W...
4 Aug 2025

Notes on Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Imp of the Perverse'

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  'The Imp of the Perverse' - Illustration by Arthur Rackham  in Edgar Allan Poe's  Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1935)   [...
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7 Feb 2025

Last Night I Dreamt of Manderley ... Starring Sebastian Horsley as Maxim de Winter

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Maggi Hambling: Sebastian Horsley XI (2021)  Oil on canvas (125 x 95 cm)   "The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sk...
2 Feb 2025

All That Jazz

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Theodor Adorno, D. H. Lawrence,  and Sebastian Horsley: they fucking hate jazz   'Jazz is the false liquidation of art [...] the mechani...
11 Nov 2024

Vive le flâneur - et la flâneuse!

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  Mariateresa Aiello: The Flâneur (Ink on paper, 2011) sketchbloom.com     "Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for...
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1 Nov 2022

A Brief Note on the Resurrection of the Damned and Johnny Rotten as an Artist in Decline

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The Damned - Rat Scabies, Brian James, Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible -  proving that whilst punk rockers never die, they do, sadly, grow ...
25 Jul 2022

How Things Protect Us From the Void

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Pupils at Bosworth Junior School (Harold Hill) c. 1972   Rather like Sebastian Horsley, I have always been happy to have my existence confir...
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23 Jul 2022

When Even the Flies Leave You Alone: Ernest Becker's 'The Denial of Death' as Interpreted by Sebastian Horsley

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  The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else. - EB It's only death; it's not the end of the world,...
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20 Jul 2022

Get It On and Punk It Up With Marc Bolan

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Marc Bolan with Dave Vanian of the Damned  and Siouxsie Sioux in 1977   According to Sebastian Horsley, Marc Bolan was super-plastic profoun...
26 Jul 2021

On Those Who Have Been Refused Entry Into the Land of the Free ...

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Photo by John Tiberi of the Sex Pistols  (Steve Jones / Johnny Rotten / Sid Vicious / Paul Cook)  on the eve of their first American tour (J...