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Kino Fist Salvagepunk Special! 27 Nov 2009 | 07:01 am
Kino Fist will be making a slight, last-minute return to tie in with the Historical Materialism conference. Due to mine and Nina's current workload may unfortunately lack a zine, but it will be in the...
A Personal Apocalypse 8 Oct 2008 | 05:02 am
Mark Hancock The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. - Vladimir Nabokov When we try to imagine...
Threads 7 Oct 2008 | 01:25 pm
Carl Neville Ostensibly a straight if harrowing made-for-TV docudrama about the run up to and aftermath of a full-scale nuclear strike on England, Threads is also one of the great examples of the dra...
After the Earthquake But Before the War 7 Oct 2008 | 01:19 pm
By Feathers Knox It was the anniversary. Motma was lying in a plastic tent in an open field, where he had been tugging at himself all day beneath his thin cotton bedclothes. His PDA lay on a pillow ...
Anticipatory, Ordinary Apocalypse 7 Oct 2008 | 01:12 pm
Michael Sayeau In an age of deadened aesthetics, there is at least one narrative trope that has come to life during the past seven years as a site of political negotiation. The seemingly simple matte...
Living Vicariously in Uncanny Valley. 7 Oct 2008 | 01:08 pm
Colin Ledwith ‘It may be true that the uncanny is nothing else than a hidden, familiar thing that has undergone repression and then emerged from it.’ (1) The ‘uncanny’, which is the English approxim...
Nucular 7 Oct 2008 | 01:05 pm
Matthew Munday As he walked along, the carrier bag hung heavy on his fingers. He had tried resting his hand inside his pocket with the handle twined around his wrist, but the bottom of the bag only c...
Cries and Whimpers: Hollywood’s Apocalyptic Ending vs Being-towards-Death in Haneke 7 Oct 2008 | 01:02 pm
Boris Knezevic ‘Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.' -Nietzsche, The Gay Science ‘…he was overwhelme...
Mediated Apocalypses 7 Oct 2008 | 12:51 pm
Owen Hatherley it's after the End of the World – don't you know that yet?' Sun Ra In the 20th century, the apocalypse happened more than once. In a perceptive 1978 essay on Surrealism, Angela Carte...
Functional Apocalypses 7 Oct 2008 | 12:46 pm
Benjamin Noys (2008) Harry Cleaver’s 1987 article “Uses of an Earthquake” presents what we could call the optimistic Marxist view of crisis: Crises are not to be feared or “solved”; they should rath...
