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January | 2015 | Letters from Beyond Xanadu
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Letters from Beyond Xanadu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Monthly Archives: January 2015. While evil stars whir: Terror and Wonder at the British Library. January 25, 2015. Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination. British Library, October 2014- January 2015. The PACCAR Gallery always seems dark – it has no windows that I know of, and you go. Exhibit, which was to close a day later, I was struck again by the utilitarian black walls which had dominated and enhanced. Enough pontifica...
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December | 2014 | Letters from Beyond Xanadu
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Letters from Beyond Xanadu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Monthly Archives: December 2014. December 11, 2014. Those who ride on the fair in early evening are now blasted away into the darkness, thrown by engineering and science into a world of wonder – “How fast now! 8221; “How high! Bakhtin, M.,. Rabelais and His World. Trans Helene Iswolsky, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1984, 1968. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin. 16(1), 1986, 22-27. Admit...
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April | 2015 | Letters from Beyond Xanadu
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Letters from Beyond Xanadu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Monthly Archives: April 2015. A Saucerful of Secrets. April 5, 2015. The Gunner’s Dream. I have, since seeing Aussie Pink Floyd, nearly said a number of times ‘It’s about as close as I’ll get to seeing the real thing’. I’ve stopped myself, because it does APF a real disservice. But it does beg various questions about authenticity itself: what is authenticity? What is ‘authentic’ music, and does it exist? I am not a relativist...
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Paradise and Circuses | Letters from Beyond Xanadu
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Letters from Beyond Xanadu. Skip to primary content. February 20, 2015. A couple of weeks ago, I heard that Paradise Circus, an area of about seventeen acres between Centenary and Chamberlain Squares in Birmingham, is being redeveloped. This started on January 5th, 2015. I’m sad, I think, because the words themselves have very particular connotations which I think work together in interesting ways. Paradise intimates perfection, order, calm; circus suggests something that, whilst controlled, is...The ety...
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Of Interstitial Spaces | Letters from Beyond Xanadu
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Letters from Beyond Xanadu. Skip to primary content. December 17, 2013. Last week, I talked about place as the product of meaningful interpretation. But Milton Keynes Interim Bus Service Station is exemplary of a very particular kind of ‘place’: a strange inbetween sort of site, which exists only by virtue of where it isn’t. Milton Keynes Interim Bus Service Station represented. Which allowed it to exist: and the station itself allowed for their imagining, and, in actuality, their possibility. December 1...
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January | 2014 | Letters from Beyond Xanadu
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Letters from Beyond Xanadu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Monthly Archives: January 2014. A Town Called Solitude. January 21, 2014. My previous posts in this series have focussed on physical space, albeit dealing with certain more abstract qualities which spring from it. This post, however, will focus on a space which is not tied to specific physical surroundings, but which is portable: a kind of virtual space a town called Solitude. Species of Spaces,*. To the ‘ Spatial Turn. 8216;...
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A Saucerful of Secrets | Letters from Beyond Xanadu
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Letters from Beyond Xanadu. Skip to primary content. A Saucerful of Secrets. April 5, 2015. The Gunner’s Dream. I have, since seeing Aussie Pink Floyd, nearly said a number of times ‘It’s about as close as I’ll get to seeing the real thing’. I’ve stopped myself, because it does APF a real disservice. But it does beg various questions about authenticity itself: what is authenticity? What is ‘authentic’ music, and does it exist? What is ‘authentic’ Pink Floyd? Back to music, then, which has a complex relat...
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July | 2015 | Letters from Beyond Xanadu
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Letters from Beyond Xanadu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Monthly Archives: July 2015. July 31, 2015. It can be said that the writer and the curator figure are similar creatures; that it is their function – honour, blessing, horror, curse? 8211; to take the incessant proliferation of their chosen medium, language or material culture, and with it to communicate something – a notion or a feeling. And to whom do they address themselves in this being? Of wonders wild and new,. On On reb...
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The Dream Child | Letters from Beyond Xanadu
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Letters from Beyond Xanadu. Skip to primary content. July 31, 2015. It can be said that the writer and the curator figure are similar creatures; that it is their function – honour, blessing, horror, curse? 8211; to take the incessant proliferation of their chosen medium, language or material culture, and with it to communicate something – a notion or a feeling. And to whom do they address themselves in this being? 8216;The dream-child moving through a land. Of wonders wild and new,. Sign in with Twitter.
