How art works

Lies and truth in genocide fiction

On Charles Palliser’s 'Sufferance'

Oct 8 •

The Anti-Singularity

An open secret in Clarke and Kubrick's '2001'

Aug 12 •

Do A.I.s dream what it's like to be a bat?

Blade running to the bottom of whether art is an empathy box

Jul 28 •

I never did like smart-ass utopians

On the masterwork, 'Always Coming Home'

Jul 21 •

How to make it new

A very 21st century TV show that has to be seen to be believed

Jul 11 •

Three stereotypes of realism

Try get it right before you call it shite

Feb 9 •

Feeling all Artless with Eyes Wide Shut

Every post of this Christmas series in one place

Dec 30, 2024 •

On the twelfth day of Christmas 'Eyes Wide Shut' gave to me

Sex as the prize/price of fidelity

Dec 23, 2024 •

Eleven: Bells a-knelling

Erotica and thanatica

Dec 21, 2024 •

Ten: Paying the piper

Dec 19, 2024 •

Nine: Alice dreaming

Kubrick inceptions his audience

Dec 17, 2024 •

Eight: Toffs cosplaying

Dec 15, 2024 •

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