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Life On Earth Is Evil: Cinema And The Collective Longing For Annihilation
In an extract from his recently-released book, U.ESS.AY: Politics and Humanity in American Film, Stephen Lee Naish considers the relationship between our enduring love for apocalyptic cinema and humanity's innate, unstoppable drive toward destruction
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Thy Will Be Done: J.G. Ballard Interviewed by Toby Litt
Taken from the newly released Extreme Metaphors, collecting interviews with J.G. Ballard over his forty-eight year career, British author Toby Litt introduces an extract from his 2006 interview with the 'Seer of Shepperton' on fascism and his then-new novel Kingdom Come
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Black Sky Thinking
Why Dance Music and Club Culture Need a Revolution, not Night Czars, to Survive and Thrive
As London's Night Czar Amy Lamé leaves her job this week, Ed Gillett investigates her failures and successes, the increasing politicisation of her role, and whether alternative approaches offer any chance of doing better
