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12 Dec 2024

A Brief Note on the Punk Is Dead / Punks Not Dead Debate

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I.    There is a big secret about The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle : most punks don't like it [1] .    ...
15 Oct 2024

If You Want Angels to Visit Your Home ...

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Stephen Alexander (à la Jamie Reid):  Taliban: Aniconism in the IEA (2024)     I.    I can't say I'm a fan of the Taliban, but you h...
10 Oct 2024

And Then This: More Random Thoughts on Samuel Beckett

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Stephen Alexander: God Save Samuel Beckett (2024)  (à la Jamie Reid) [1]     There are many reasons other than his dark humour and finely...
17 Aug 2024

Punk's Dead Knot: Reflections on an Essay by Ian Trowell - Part 2: On Big Flavour Wraps and Vicious Burgers

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You pays your money and you takes your choice ...  McDonald's Big Flavour Wraps (2016) [a] Vs Jamie Reid's Vicious Burger (1979) [b...
3 Aug 2024

Reflections on a Pagan T-Shirt

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    Left: Novgorod Devil Mask Shirt   (Pagan Products 1983)  Right: three medieval leather masks found in Novgorod   I.    If, as Deleuze a...
26 Jun 2024

Five Brief Notes on Rockism, Poptimism, and Authenticity (With Reference to Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols)

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Cover by Jamie Reid for the Sex Pistols' single 'Silly Thing'  released from the album The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle ...
25 May 2024

Punk It Up (I'm a Sex Pistol Man Oh Yeah!)

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Malcolm McLaren: screenshot taken from the video for  'Punk It Up' (dir. Ian Gabriel): click here .  A Sex Pistol - that's what ...
23 Apr 2024

On the Triumph of Karaoke Culture and Punk Pantomime

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Poster design for Pretty Vacant - The Story of Punk & New Wave   (Not exactly Jamie Reid, is it?)     I.    Shortly before he died in Ap...
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22 Mar 2024

André Masson and the Sex Pistols

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The Surrealist and the Sex Pistol:  André Masson and Malcolm McLaren Photos by Man Ray (c. 1930) and Joe Stevens (1976)     I.    When asked...
18 Mar 2024

What Was I Thinking? (18 March)

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Images used for the posts published on this date  in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2023         Sometimes - especially those times when, like today,...
13 Jan 2024

Reflections on Vita Contemplativa by Byung-Chul Han (Part Two)

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Cover of the original German edition (Ullstein Verlag, 2022) [a]     I.   One of the key paragraphs in the opening chapter of Vita Contempla...