http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/ en-us 2004-09-18T19:46:47+00:00 http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/archives/000412.html In the last three decades of the 20th Century, the names of many french thinkers acquired in the US an aura that was previously reserved for heroes of American mythology, or for showbiz stars. One could even play at... robin 2004-09-18T19:46:47+00:00 http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/archives/000396.html We constantly do things before they make sense, even before we 'will' them (current studies suggests a time-lapse of around 500ms between the motor-system initiation of an action and the conscious decision to carry out the action). We can never... robin 2004-09-11T12:04:48+00:00 http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/archives/000395.html And another, this time suggesting, in visceral detail, the kinship between dream thought with waking thought (ie both proceed from sensation to ex post facto causal rationalisation.) the dream, however, is the searching for, and the imagining of, the causes... robin 2004-09-11T11:51:02+00:00 http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/archives/000393.html Eleutheria unearths a Nietzsche quote which encapsulates the exact thought towards which I am preparing to spend the next few years of my life groping and stumbling. And rightly contrasts it with those idiocies from which, as part of the... robin 2004-09-11T11:31:18+00:00 http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/archives/000387.html There is a descriptive phrase that often turns up here, malevolent impotence, that fits this 'obscene cissy' (eleutheria on John le Carré on Smiley on his boss) well. Two terrifying stages of power: firstly, the horrifying elemental fierceness and... robin 2004-09-10T15:27:57+00:00 http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/archives/000386.html A pretty small 'we' Two rather moving quotes from W. Burroughs, both of which I am in profound sympathy with (even more so their conjunction), and which demonstrate how the most corrosive nihilism can coinhabit (or is even identical)... robin 2004-09-10T14:50:56+00:00 http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/archives/000384.html Over the next week (or however long it takes me to get through it) I�ll be posting some or all of my translation of Michel Houellebecq�s HP Lovecraft � Contre le monde, contre la vie. This is not an official,... robin 2004-09-10T14:10:58+00:00 http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/archives/000348.html The only way to return after such prodigious prevarication is straight in without fanfare...a missive from k-punk towers, then, where we've temporarily fled from cornwall aka 'The Drowned World'. Gorgeous, endlessly ramified Magritte streetscape : architecture an exhaustive denumerable series... robin 2004-08-19T07:05:24+00:00 http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/archives/000240.html Photography robin 2004-05-17T01:17:13+00:00 http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/archives/000236.html Went to the beach for the first time this year. (Even though it's only 15 minutes walk away, you (I, anyway) can get used to, and thus ignore, anything that's familiar. Beaches are sort of boring anyway, unless you're... Psychogeography robin 2004-05-17T00:02:08+00:00 http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/archives/000235.html from the Guardian's TV guide: 8.0 The Man Who Paints the Future : Extraordinary People (T) (S) (R) Can retired art lecturer David Mandell really paint pictures of disasters he's seen in his dreams? Call me credulous, but it doesn't... Other People's Media robin 2004-05-16T21:06:31+00:00 http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/archives/000234.html - I don't perform. That's not a performance. A seriousness that means something (even if you don't agree with him), a presence, a resistance. Morrissey, a voice of rational misanthropy, of resolute idiosyncrasy, of the bloodymindedly cerebral. Someone who understands... Other People's Media robin 2004-05-15T00:31:21+00:00 http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/archives/000233.html I'm assured by sphaleotas that further close readings are imminent.... Blogging Trivia robin 2004-05-13T16:06:28+00:00 http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/archives/000232.html Someone needs to do an epidemiological study of depression in blogland: k-punk makes a start by compiling a 'best of' the great cultural fatigue of 04, whilst the naked maja gives a poignant, personal account of the same (incidentally, do... Blogging Trivia robin 2004-05-13T15:59:20+00:00 http://blog.urbanomic.com/undercurrent/archives/000214.html Other People's Media robin 2004-05-12T16:19:12+00:00