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Film

The Pioneers Of Post-Truth: Rashomon, 70 Years On

Akira Kurosawa's philosophical samurai film reshaped the cinematic landscape for countless reasons in 1950 – but its political potency remains particularly urgent today, Blaise Radley finds
Books

Enjoy Your Symptom: Unpicking The Happiness Fantasy

A new book by Carl Cederström traces our contemporary vision of happiness from the chaise-longues of inter-war Vienna to the intentional communities of Southern California and the corporate boardrooms of today's captains of industry
Black Sky Thinking

The Rise Of Fear & The Strange Death Of The UFO

UFOs were once at the heart of popular culture and science fiction, with even an American president claiming he'd had a strange encounter. Jeremy Allen looks at the strange decline of the little green men, asking if it's a symptom of our troubled age

Books

Kafka For President: 80 Years of The Trial

On the 80th anniversary of its first English translation, Brian Coney examines the parallels between Kafka’s essential work of philosophical fiction and the continued rise of global despotism. (Photograph by David Fenton)
Black Sky Thinking

A Dead Dog’s Arse Of A F***ing Year: Mr Agreeable Reviews 2016

2016 was so unpleasant that even Mr Agreeable couldn't find much to love. The deranged old sot has sent in a green ink missive featuring his views on Trump, Brexit, Corbyn, Rag N'Bone Man, Kanye West and James Corden
Black Sky Thinking

Why ‘Do One 2016’ Isn’t Enough & We Need Aesthetic Dissent

In the latest Quietus Wreath Lecture, Joe Kennedy argues that in the age of Brexit and Trump we need to sharpen and weaponise our approach to consuming culture
Black Sky Thinking

Wreath Lectures 2016: This Was The Year That Did Not Happen

Robert Barry kicks off the 2016 Wreath Lectures by casting his mind back over the past 11 months and asking if, given how utterly rancid and appalling everything has been, the year actually happened at all

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