The Cultural Olympiad: Carrying the Torch for Art?

November 16, 2012 by philco

When a wall becomes a bridge
September 11, 2024
AScript of Young Adult fiction for Anti/Climactic Times Scenario and text: Phil Cohen; Graphics: Maureen Burdock (Cover and story), Jina Lee (Map) To eat, to sleep, to walk, to communicate, these elementary acts demand an effort to throw oneself onto the other bank of the river. Michel Serres Walls turned sideways are bridges. […]
WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET : A DOUBLE TAKE ON THE UK ELECTION 2024
July 15, 2024
Note: These two short pieces written after the June 4th election result , are extracted from a collection of essays , Studies in the Grey Zone, due to be published by eyeglass books in October. Take One: One Nation Labourism and the Great Moving Right Show The question of just how and from where, and […]
Studies in the Grey Zone:
March 27, 2024
Waypoints Volume 2 This new book brings together recent writing and spans the period from the Covid 19 pandemic to the ongoing wars in the Ukraine and Gaza. Like the pieces in the companion Waypoints volume, these essays are occasional in that they were prompted by particular contingencies, both personal and political. Yet in selecting […]
Living Maps : towards a poetry made by all
December 24, 2023
Looking back on the first ten years of Livingmaps Network Every project has its founding myth , a story about its origins in which the cold rational prose of ‘aims and objectives’ melts into the thicker air of an auto-poetics. The risk is that in the process starting points become end points, and the […]
ANTISEMIT-ORIENTAL- ZION-ISMS
December 23, 2023
The Triple Misalliance I An extract from‘Studies in thr Grey Zone; Waypoints Vol 2 to be published by eyglass books at Easter 2024 .Introduction One of the many fallouts from the current horrific conflict in Palestine/Israel is the way sections of the Hard Left have advanced an apologetics for the atrocities committed by Hamas, while […]
WRITING BEHIND THE LINE
November 7, 2023
This is the Preface to Waypoints Volume 2 : Studies in the Grey Zone , a collection of new work to be published by eyeglass books in September 2024 PREFACE: Writing behind the lines The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, […]