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Wreath Lectures
Crash & Carry? The Supermarket In Pop Culture In 2014
"The supermarket is an expression of our times, the pop art of everyday life." This is th...
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Wreath Lectures
We Are All Freemans: Pop Culture and Future Reckonings In 2014
"As to when, in time – it may be years, but all of the varied channels of communication w...
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Black Sky Thinking
Would You Still Be Singing If Hitler Bought Your Football Club?
Ten years ago I was asked by Radio 4 to broadcast my reaction to Roman Abramovich's takeo...
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Black Sky Thinking
We're All Apprentices Now: On Business TV & Contemporary Britain
When The Apprentice first hit British screens it seemed an opportunistic, even cynical co...
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Come On Fry Young
Kitchens Of Extinction: The Desperation Of The Doomed Restaurateur
I never wanted to throw a party. Ever. No way was I slipping into my sweet dark denim boo...
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Black Sky Thinking
Post-Dubstep, Post-Olympic: On SBTRKT & "Bollocks Music"
Honestly, one day I’m going to stop writing heavily personalised ledes, but in this case ...
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The Quietus Essay
Optrex For Your Third Eye: What Does Psychedelia Mean In 2014?
In The Masthead introduction to issue 357 of The WIRE which came out last November, Edito...
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Black Sky Thinking
Songs Of Innocence: On U2, Tax & Hypocrisy
Without much fanfare the Irish stadium rock band U2 released an album yesterday (09/09/14...
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Mr Agreeable
Krautrock? Sauer Sot Mr Agreeable Unhappy With Future Days
Future Days: Krautrock And The Building Of Modern Germany is a chronicle of the German ex...
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The Quietus Essay
How Motorik Infected The Mainstream, By Future Days Author David Stubbs
Brian Eno would declare the Dingerbeat devised by Neu!'s Klaus Dinger to be one of the three gr...
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