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2 Feb 2026

God Save Jean Genet

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Sex Pistols ft. Jean Genet (SA/2026) Photo credits: Sex Pistols by Bob Gruen (1976)  and Jean Genet by Brassaï (1948)      Beauty is the p...
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1 Feb 2026

Simon Poulter: Artist and Aurelian

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  Simon Poulter: Purple Emperor  (2022) [1] Watercolour on Fabriano Artistico paper  viral.info/butterflies     I.    Another Simon whom I a...
29 Jan 2026

In Praise of the 1% Who Don't Fit in and Don't Care

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Anarchist Punk Gang muslin shirt  McLaren & Westwood (Seditionaries, 1979) Image via bonhams.com       I.  These days, the 1% typically ...
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28 Jan 2026

Bob & Vivien & Nick & Young: Thoughts on a Post Screening Discussion

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L-R: Nick Egan, Vivien Goldman, Bob Gruen, and Young Kim Malcolm Mclaren: Worlds End Paris Catwalk Shows  + Duck Rock Post Screening Discuss...
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27 Jan 2026

Deep in Vogue: How Madonna Threw Some Shade and Out Posed McLaren on the Ballroom Floor

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  Malcolm Mclaren and Madonna Face Off     'This has got to be a special tribute to the Houses of New York ...' I.    Is voguing  - ...
26 Jan 2026

остранение: Notes on Viktor Shklovsky and Defamiliarisation

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Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984)  Defamiliarised by Stephen Alexander (2026)   'The technique of art is to make objects unfamiliar, to make ...
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25 Jan 2026

D. H. Lawrence and the Queer Defamiliarisation of St. Mawr

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  Front cover of the  Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies   Volume 7, Number 2 (2025) [1]     I.    There are, of course, many ways of reading...
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24 Jan 2026

Sijia Yao's Cosmopolitan Love and Utopian Vision: Or How to Have D. H. Lawrence Spinning in His Grave (Part 2: Sections VI-X)

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Sijia Yao: Cosmopolitan Love:   Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang  (University of Michigan Press, 2023)     This is a contin...