On Monday evening, Simon Stephens‘ Sea Wall premiered at the Bush Theatre in West London. Consisting of a thirty minute monologue by actor Andrew Scott, the play works perfectly in the theatre’s intimate setting. Scott’s performance was adroitly adapted to the theatre’s location in which a steady stream of traffic stage left and rumbling overground trains [...]
Author Archives: Jeff Kinkle
“Poem” by Joshua Clover
September 30, 2009 – 1:44 am
We always send it to the wrong address
And now that buoys even our most impersonal days. Everyone is beautiful!
And then almost everyone. C’est cool-ça, the shift that enchants the world
Or at least the afternoon of the world before it’s off
To meet Chris and all at glimmering Colleen’s
Arriving southside early and so twenty min for Lyn’s [...]
The Coming Insurrection – A Point of Clarification
August 27, 2009 – 1:07 pm
The following text is the introduction to The Invisible Committee’s The Coming Insurrection, published this month by Semiotext(e) and available online as a pdf. The book was originally published in France following the riots in the Parisian suburbs, and across Europe, in 2005. Almost two months ago we posted an incredible clip of Glenn Beck of [...]
Sentences and Images for a Fictional Cinema
August 20, 2009 – 12:28 pm
After finishing Chris Petit’s wonderfully dark 1993 novel Robinson – as wet, grim, and seedy depiction of London as I’ve come across – in which the title character attempts to make “the Citizin Kane of porno movies, I’ve begun to try to think of other works of fiction in which the author attempts to imagine [...]
The Grand Meeting of Failures
August 17, 2009 – 4:06 pm
Failures…
They portray us as DUDS, and that is what we are.
We are nothing, we mean it, NOTHING AT ALL, and we intend to be of NO USE.
“Respectable people” harp on: ”WORK! BUCK UP! SUCCEED!” SUCCEED IN GETTING WHERE? IN DOING WHAT? IN WHAT CONDITION?
Our motto: IN ORDER TO ARRIVE, ABOVE ALL, DO NOT LEAVE.
All you, INCAPABLE, [...]
Fischli & Weiss Nutshot
July 8, 2009 – 4:08 am
“For anyone not already hardened by the emptiness of life, there is in this world, which seems to have at its disposal limitless resources, a confusion remedied only by a kind of lazily accepted general imbecility. Even poverty seems at the very least less incurable than this stupid distress. A beggar whose broken voice cries [...]
“Everyone agrees. It’s about to explode.”
July 3, 2009 – 10:15 am
On Wednesday Fox New’s Glenn Beck launched into a wonderful tirade against The Coming Insurrectionby the anonymous Invisible Committee, a “dangerous book” about to be published in English by Semiotext(e)/MIT Press. Originally published in French in 2007, it has since been used as a crucial piece of evidence against the so-called Tarnac 9 in a controversial anti-terrorism trial in [...]
