There are many reasons to consider this book, for now alas only available in a hardback, library-only version, the most important publication in cultural studies of the year 2015. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Five Years: Portrait of the Chameleon as a Craftsman
Last week, in order to get into the right and enthusiastic frame of mind about the then forthcoming Bowie-album Black Star, I saw Francis Whately’s 2013 documentary David Bowie: Five Years. It was evening, I had been reading Richard Sennett’s The Craftsman that day, and watching this documentary about five decisive years in Bowie’s career seemed a good way to unwind. Continue reading
A Critical Return on Guy Debord
The founding father of situationism, a highly politicized neo-avant-garde movement that is said to have played a decisive role in the May 68 turmoil and author of the influential essay The Society of the Spectacle, Guy-Ernest Debord is considered one of the most important French thinkers of the second half of the 20th Century. Continue reading
