In the late 1970s a group of people living in the borough of Hackney in East London began building a structure on a derelict lot in their neighborhood and continued building until this January. The story of the project’s origins are shrouded in mystery. What is known is that because the residents couldn’t decide on [...]
Author Archives: Jeff Kinkle
“Um… it just all ties together.”
May 28, 2009 – 11:19 am
Luke Myer and Andrew Neel’s New World Order opened at New York’s Cinema Village on Friday. The film follows various so-called ‘conspiracy theorists’ and activists as they pass out flyers outside Ground Zero, cover a Bilderberg Group meeting in Istanbul, and prepare for the imminent collapse of American Civilization in Idaho. Without narration, New World [...]
Il Divo Primer
April 28, 2009 – 4:08 am
I just found out that Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo opened in New York on Friday and since it probably won’t be out for long I’m rushing this post. I’m not familiar with Sorrentino’s earlier work and I saw the film too long ago to review it properly. This is intended as more of a primer [...]
It’s your sadness, idiot.
February 23, 2009 – 3:17 pm
I don’t want to reveal any names, but I was recently told that Simon Critchley, following a conference somewhere on the Iberian Peninsula, invited another philosopher to go see the Chemical Brothers, as he had an extra ticket. At the concert the second philosopher suffered a mild heart attack and was forced to cancel all [...]
Review: Michèle Bernstein’s All the King’s Horses
December 2, 2008 – 10:37 am
There has been yet another resurgence of interest in the early work of Guy Debord and the Situationist International (1957-72) recently. Fortunately, this has lead to the publication of Michèle Bernstein’s novel from 1960, All the King’s Horses by Semiotext(e). Bernstein is known primarily amongst Situationist aficionados as Debord’s wife for over fifteen years and [...]
