sean cubitt's blog

the past is that element of the present that cannot be changed

Cinema is scarcely more than a century old. It is still a babe in arms compared to the ancient arts of music, poetry, dance, storytelling, p...

We Have Never Been Human text of a talk at the Intermediality – digital images in contemporary art event, ICA 16 November 2013 Chris Cunni...

World War One was the final death throe of the old feudal order, which had clung to the principle of absolute monarchy across Europe and Jap...

Society has exactly the opposite geometry to the universe: its periphery is everywhere and its centre nowhere

The tenth of Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History , the one that follows the famous passage about Klee's angel, says in pa...

The last localism, that of the body, has already been invaded by DNA mining among indigenous peoples. In the wealthy West, the rich alread...