If Zadie Smith is to be believed, the future of the avant-garde lies in the hands of artist and writer Tom McCarthy. Through his novels and the parodic/splenetic interventions of the INS [International Necronautical Society], he ceaselessly returns to questions of death and space-poaching in the fissures of the symbolic and political like an agitprop [...]
Author Archives: Clodagh Kinsella
In a former life Clodagh Kinsella lashed the academic whip. She now embodies the continental drift, splitting her ample time between arts’ journalism, creative writing and sundered conceptual play.
The Radical Ambiguity of Tom McCarthy*
July 22, 2009 – 5:25 pm
Posted in Art, Fiction, Interviews
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Tagged Association of Autonomous Astronauts, Ballard, Barbican, Beckett, catastrophe, Harold Pinter, Hitchcock, Houellebecq, International Necronautical Society, Jean-Phillippe Toussaint, Jim Jones, Pavel Pavlikowski, Remainder, Ryanair stag parties, Satin Island, Tom McCarthy, Wolfman, Zidane, zombiedom
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