For the last quarter of a century Brian Dillon has been copying sentences into the back pages of whatever notebook he happened to be using for some other purpose. Sean Sheehan He has amassed scores of these notebooks and their back pages provide the basis for the […]
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Rubén Szuchmacher: the spirit of the elusive
In a London virtual event open to the public, this Argentinean actor and director presents on December 2nd the English version of his book “The uncapturable.” His career spans 50 years, and accompanied by colleagues and guests, he will invoke the rebellious spirit of the performing arts that pervades his […]
Radical community photography in Hackney in the 1980s
The Rio cinema in Hackney, at the Stoke Newington end of Kingsland High St, has been there for as long as anyone can remember. Sean Sheehan I recall as a youngster, when there were other cinemas on the same street (the Rio was then called the Classic), that […]
A classic tale of life in the city
When Cyprian Ekwensi’s “People of the city” was first published in the 1950s, it was the second Nigerian novel to be published in Britain, predating Chinua Achebe’s hugely influential “Things fall apart”. Sean Sheehan Reading it now, republished nearly seventy years after it was written, serves to confirm […]
Marx and the society of the spectacle
Guy Debord’s “Society of the spectacle” was first published in France in 1968 and it remains closely associated with the country’s events of that incendiary year. Sean Sheehan This fails to do justice to its sober analysis of society and, with a new edition just published, it is […]