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Showing posts with label poly styrene. Show all posts
26 Aug 2025

On Three More Punk Graces: Siouxsie Sioux, Poly Styrene, and Helen of Troy

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The Three Punk Graces II: Poly, Siouxsie & Helen of Troy (SA/2025)       I.    The Greeks famously have had their Charites , but punk my...
17 Apr 2025

Notes on Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts (Part 1: pp. 1-74)

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Cover of the Melville House edition  (2016) [a]     I've said it before, but it's worth repeating: Maggie Nelson is one of those ver...
22 Feb 2025

That Time I Met Neneh Cherry (An Extract from the Von Hell Diaries: 1 March 1985)

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Cover of the Float Up CP album    Kill Me in the Morning (1985) ft. Neneh Cherry     It was only when reading a review of Neneh Cherry'...
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12 Aug 2021

Watching the World Turn Day-Glo: Welcome to the Plastisphere

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Kristen Regan : Aurelia eviana   Print on aluminium (20" x 20") From the series Plastisphere     I.    I've previously written...
10 Apr 2021

Plastic Ants (There Might Come a Day When They're Treading On You)

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Lasius plasticus   I.    The world isn't actually going to turn Day-Glo as Poly Styrene predicted [1] , but it - and the life that it su...
29 Feb 2020

Notes on Patricia MacCormack's Ahuman Manifesto Pt. 2: Chapters 1-2

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Cover design by Charlotte Daniels (Bloomsbury, 2020) IV. As Poly Styrene once said: Identity / Is the crisis, can't you see? ...
15 Feb 2019

Pretty in Pink (Notes on the Engendering of Baby Mia)

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Baby Mia in a salmon pink cardigan I. Now that baby Mia is recognisably human - though still outside language - she is being col...
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14 Jan 2016

The Case of Thomas Townsend (Germ Free Adolescent)

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Your deodorant smells nice ... An inquest into the recent death of 16-year-old Thomas Townsend found that he died from the effects ...