Monthly Archives: November 2010

living at the end of history – capitalist realism

Posted on November 25, 2010 by bkp

IT IS EASIER TO IMAGINE THE END OF THE WORLD THAN TO IMAGINE THE END OF CAPITALISM The idea of the end of History derives from Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man. Essentially Fukuyama posits the … Continue reading →

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hand or motor driven / shadows on the wall

Posted on November 22, 2010 by bkp
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A Guide to Armageddon

Posted on November 10, 2010 by bsk
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Rituals – Martin Parr, Ben Russell and Lightning Bolt

Posted on November 9, 2010 by bkp

United Kingdom by Martin Parr Ben Russell‘s film of fans at a Lightning Strike concert Black and White Trypps Number 3. Ben Russell says that the film was directly influenced by Jean Rouch – “I was trying to imagine what … Continue reading →

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Kitchen Sink

Posted on November 9, 2010 by bsk

Oooh Kitchen Sink (Alison Maclean, 1989) Kitchen Sink \ Alison Maclean [1989] from veana on Vimeo.

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workers leaving the googleplex

Posted on November 3, 2010 by bkp

Workers Leaving the Googleplex (Rough Cut) from Andrew Norman Wilson on Vimeo. An account by Andrew Norman Wilson of his attempt to make a film – “An analysis of the transition from industrial labour to information labour…” while working for … Continue reading →

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the system of food

Posted on November 3, 2010 by bsk

“When he buys an item of food, consumes it, or serves it, modern man does not manipulate a simple object in a purely transitive fashion; this item of food sums up and trasnmits a situation; it constitutes an information; it … Continue reading →

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False Criticism: Cinema and the Conservative (Indie) Critique of the Bourgeois Society

Posted on November 2, 2010 by bsk

If you, like the Bioskop, felt that nineties and noughties US “indie” films like  American Beauty,  Fight Club, Elephant, Magnolia, Thirteen, In the Cut, Virgin Suicides etc didn’t deliver the brutal critique of society that they promised, or that all … Continue reading →

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brute practicality

Posted on November 2, 2010 by bsk

my favourite grumpy writer jenny diski on refusing a pair of boots as one of the most formative experiences of her adolescence. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n22/jenny-diski/diary

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enter the void

Posted on November 1, 2010 by bkp

From Gaspar Noe’s pastel-neon mystico-reductionist Freudian epic Enter The Void. this is the  scene when Linda’s disembodied dead brother finally succeeds in securing his reincarnation via her insemination by his druggy friend Alex, in a love hotel in tokyo. having … Continue reading →

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