Black Sky Thinking
Essays, investigation and opinion on today’s cultural landscape
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Martin Amis, Geezer-Prat, & His Unfortunate Clichés Of Britishness
With the release of cynical new novel Lionel Asbo: State Of England, argues Alex Niven, Martin Amis continues the patronising run of form that helped install the pernicious and cliché-ridden notion of 'Cool Britannia' and ultimately Boris and Dave's Big Society
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Vive La France! Lessons The UK Can Learn From Hollande’s Election Victory
Hollande's victory for the French Socialist Party in the weekend's Presidential Elections provoked outpourings of emotion and solidarity of the sort rarely seen in the UK, says Joe Kennedy. Photograph thanks to Valerio Berdini
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Cracked Actor: In Defence Of Oliver Reed
Ken Russell's 1971 landmark The Devils is finally out on DVD today. To celebrate, Anthony Nield reassesses the popular perception of its star Oliver Reed, arguing that we should remember the actor rather than the alcoholic. Behind the scenes production shot courtesy of Warner Bros.
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Com Lag: Slow Media, & The Occupation Of Online Time
As concern grows over what the corporate internet's flattening of time might be doing to our minds, a host of modern artists are using its own devices to resist the onslaught, slowing music and art and allowing time for its meaning to sink in. Ryan Diduck examines the significance of these 'com-lagged' works of art
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Kindred Spirits: Burial The Urban Explorer
Burial released his new EP, Kindred, though Hyperdub this week. In a piece that began as a simple review before spiraling out of control, Rory Gibb asks why he, out of all his contemporaries, has struck such a nerve with such a wide audience
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Jajouka Or Joujouka? The Conflicted Legacy Of The Master Musicians
For decades, the music from one small village in Morocco has rung out internationally. But a long-running dispute between two separate factions of the Master Musicians of Jajouka/Joujouka has threatened to overshadow the success of both. Richie Troughton explores the legacy of the two groups and their current projects
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Wild Sting: In Defence Of Dune
In the game of folly versus lolly David Lynch's version of the Frank Herbert science fiction novel Dune played and lost. Now revived as part of a BFI Southbank retrospective on the director, it is often regarded as a patchy, incomprehensible failure. Andrew Stimpson challenges this consensus
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