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Jack Brotchie wearing reconstructed clothing by Jenny Tiramani  based on figure 102 in  The Book of Clothes  by Matthäus Schwarz [1]    If a...

Emmanuelle Fantin and Bran Nicol:  Jean Baudrillard   (Reaktion Books, 2025)   'What I am, I don't know? I am the simulacrum of myse...

The final line-up of Pan's People (1975-76)  (L-R: Ruth Pearson, Sue Menhenick, Cherry Gillespie, Lee Ward, and Mary Corpe) [1]   What w...

(The Tripover, 2025)  Note: all page numbers in this post refer to this edition.     I.    Our friends at The Tripover have a new book out; ...

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

Sex Pistols Photo by Richard Young (1976)   "We have passed beyond the absurd: our position is absolutely ridiculous." [1]     I...

  First proposed by Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams in 2002, the dark triad is a psychological theory of personality that collates...

    I.    I don't know the origin of the zen fascist insistence on wishing everyone a happy new year, but I suspect it's rooted in ...

Artwork by Wesley Johnson   The hymen is neither consummation nor virginity, neither the veil nor unveiling,  neither the inside nor the out...

  In nil sapiendo vita iucundissima est     I.   As Jarvis Cocker correctly observed back in 1995: Everybody hates a tourist [a] .    Howev...