The Abundance of the Seas
from the late Professor [Thomas] Huxley"I believe it may be affirmed with confidence that, in relation to our present modes of fishing, a number of the most important sea fisheries, such as the cod...
View ArticleThe Quantum Crowd
from a chapter called "Defining the Public in Piccadilly Circus" for a forthcoming collection on public screens and transnational cultures edited by Nikos Papastergiadis and Scott McQuire. The public...
View ArticleThe War on War
The world's leaders hum and hah over the Ba'ath assault on its own population with chemical weapons because chemical warfare has been a platform of UK and US weaponry at least since 1991 and deployed...
View ArticleAgainst the Cult of Hitchcock
I can no longer resist putting this out: a tirade cut from The Cinema Effect on the wildly overrated work of Hitchcock, whose manipulative tendencies took the total film to new heights of...
View ArticleResearch Methods
As statistical average, the night sky is dark: what fascinate us are the unique properties of those twinkling exceptions, but we only fully understand the stars if we appreciate their bright...
View ArticleBiomediations
The last localism, that of the body, has already been invaded by DNA mining among indigenous peoples. In the wealthy West, the rich already treat their bodies as alien environments to be protected from...
View ArticleAgainst catastrophism
The tenth of Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History, the one that follows the famous passage about Klee's angel, says in part that 'Our consideration proceeds from the insight that the...
View ArticleThesis
Society has exactly the opposite geometry to the universe: its periphery is everywhere and its centre nowherehttp://seancubitt.blogspot.com/
View ArticleWe Have Never Been Human
We Have Never Been Humantext of a talk at the Intermediality – digital images in contemporary art event, ICA 16 November 2013 Chris Cunningham's 1999 video for Bjork's All Is Full of Love is an icily...
View ArticleCyborg takeover
World War One was the final death throe of the old feudal order, which had clung to the principle of absolute monarchy across Europe and Japan long after its social and cultural bases had withered...
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Introduction to Patricio Guzmán, Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la...
Cinema is scarcely more than a century old. It is still a babe in arms compared to the ancient arts of music, poetry, dance, storytelling, painting and sculpture. It is, or should be, still, a...
View ArticleOn memory
the past is that element of the present that cannot be changedhttp://seancubitt.blogspot.com/
View ArticleStupidity
Stupidity is not the native condition of humanity: it is the result of a massive economic and political effort to encourage forgetting. In a generation, scarcely thirty years, a huge raft of domestic...
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Landscape, fim and political aesthetics
from a paper given at the Screen conference in Glasgow last weekend. After a glorious weekend of thinking landscape, we spent a glorious day in it: at the summit of Ben Nevis, the highest peak in the...
View ArticleGreat Typos #1
"Apple have resorted to building biomass generating pants" Proof-reading i an essential part of the creative endeavourhttp://seancubitt.blogspot.com/
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The Practice of Light
Gratefully acknowledging the Sächsiche Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (the delightfully abbreviated SLUB) for the beautiful engraving of Wenzel Jamnitzer's geometric...
View ArticleHow to connect everyone with everything
Shortly before I'm due to visit Brazil to do some talks, Guilherme Kujawski has done a swift interview available in Portuguese here. For those restricted to English, here's the text: 1. McKenzie Wark...
View ArticleWhy subsidise low wages?
The UK Tory party enters the election promising to lower taxes for workers on the minimum wage : “With the Conservatives, if you’re on minimum wage, no income tax". But why should taxpayers subsidise...
View Article16 Theses on Meteorology
Kant noted that innocence was a splendid thing, but didn't keep well, and tended to be misled. We cannot afford to be innocent about the weather, but we do not know where to go for wisdom. The...
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Inaugural
I've been very lazy about this blog: apologies to both my fans.Here however is the link to the video of my inaugural lecture at Goldsmiths, with thanks to Stefan Zambinski for production....
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