sean cubitt's blog

The era of autonomous art is over. Because, as Terry Flaxton put it in a recent email, media arts, electronic arts specifically, disappear ...

In Minima Moralia para 145, Adorno writes that, in both art and kitsch, 'freedom from nature is celebrated, but remains mythically entr...

" . . so that an angel can proportionate this power to a greater or smaller part of corporeal substance; for if there was no body at...

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic": Arthur C Clarke c. 1973 And here is a passage from Marce...

a childhood in the 20th century will fade away like mist. This is what makes the Blade Runner films so poignant, 'like tears in the rai...

Over at The Capmaign for the American Reader, Marshal Zeringue has devised a great way to get writers to identify the strengths and weaknes...

The last line of Thomas Hardy's short poem ' The Walk ' evokes 'the look of a room on returning thence'. One of the Poem...