The Lonesome Dreams of LA Musicians Lord Huron
Steeped in the current crop of Americana musicians, the loosely formed LA indie folk band Lord Huron have come out of nowhere to sit beside the very best exporters of hushed guitar, soothing harmonies and sparse instrumentalism: Fleet Foxes, Father John Misty, Iron & Wine and Sean Carey amongst others. Formed amongst the sweeping prairie lands and...
N.exile.Y
Giant buildings slowly shrivel to dwarves As my distance from them grows Their unending sounds and blaring lights Are deafened and dimmed by the tunnel As it siphons me away Through the tunnel and over the hill The air thickens and is made visible The land appears craterous and dead No pedestrians to be...
THE FLANEUR ABROAD – University of Nottingham conference on the Flaneur
The Flaneur Abroad- International and Historical Perspectives on an Urban Archetype A conference to warm the cockles of your heart in Nottingham. The Flaneur comes under the microscope, looking at the phenomenon outside its Paris heartland. The conference schedule is included below and examines modern sequels, contemporary echoes and historical antecedents. Book by 5th July...
Neighbours
Within a certain house, There is a basement; this dark hell breathes of blood. A dried paste covers walls and the floors, Made for paintings, decorates doors. Dying fetuses that lie upon the ferruled children, Rusty metal fragments drilled to the top of heads, Sticky liquid consumptions of stomach juices,...
Ale Park I Urn
We were standing in the gardens of lucidity, Where she talked about times she spent with angels. None of this really mattered to me, As I gazed into...
The Urban Forager: A Philosophy of Use
Foraging is a pursuit usually associated with the countryside. When we think of foragers, we think of adults and children standing under huge apple trees in the corner of deserted fields or next to hedges at the side of country roads, with plastic bags in one hand and the other hand sticky, fruit-stained grasping handfuls...
The Sale of Transcendence
If we look around us, it is possible to see that life is a compartmentalised into different spheres. There is a ‘work sphere’; especially geared towards efficient work, with a uniform to distinguish it from the other spheres and a group of ‘others’ included, called colleagues, to wear the uniform with. There is the ‘domestic...
History of The Flaneur: The part The Flaneur has played in World history
Many people have asked for the history of The Flaneur to be written down before it is forgotten. The clamour has become unbearable and so the basic facts have been set before the public below. They are based on hearsay, assumption, presumption, guesswork, estimations, memory and sheer invention. The word facts should probably not be...
Reflections on the city from a post-flaneur
Reading the titles of the Proboscis e-book series, Material Condition, I couldn’t help being attracted by Ruth Maclennan’s publication: Reflections on the city from a post-flaneur. As her own website tells us, Ruth Maclennan’s artworks grapple ‘with the relationship between the present, the only moment of experience—irreducibly subjective, visceral yet evanescent—and the linguistic and visual representations...
