torpedo the ark

Is the writer Tom Hodgkinson the most despicable human being in the world? Perhaps not. But his book, How to be Idle (Penguin Books, 2...

There's something deeply affecting about the poster campaign for the new perfume from YSL. It's not the gaze of the actress mode...

'A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing,  for the Lord your God detests anyone who does ...

Following a recent post in which I mentioned the importance of  footwear, I have been asked to describe what might constitute - for m...

Teeny-tiny little red spider-ants have taken up residence in my electric kettle: which is kind of annoying and a little inconvenient....

Potlatch is an archaic form of economic exchange, based on the notion of giving a gift of such value that the receiver is thereby hu...

Patrick Bateman is one of the great fictional figures within contemporary culture, even though the question of his identity remains amb...

Dromeas (1994), glass and iron sculpture by Costas Varotsos, Athens, Greece Crash! And suddenly, with a crash, I find myself  th...

For Lawrence, who subscribes to a libidinal materialism in which 'touch' is of crucial importance, the physical handling of an...

Writing in the above work, Ian Bogost suggests that we might use the term ontography to refer to an inscriptive strategy that gives a s...