Now reading _Instrumental_ by James Rhodes 📚
Category: Books
Posted on May 16, 2018
From _Hyperallergic_: An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord's 'The Society of the Spectacle'
>Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, La société du spectacle (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer culture. The book examines the “Spectacle,” Debord’s term for the everyday manifestation of capitalist-driven phenomena; advertising, television, film, and celebrity.
Posted on April 29, 2018
Now reading _Red Gas_ by Edward Topol 📚
Posted on April 20, 2018
Now reading _The Last Weekend_ by Blake Morrison. 📚
Posted on April 13, 2018
Posted on March 31, 2018
Now I’ve just got to investigate Ursula K Le Guin's electronica album and the associated book *Always Coming Home*
> ‘Deeply weird and enjoyable’
🎵📚
Posted on March 26, 2018
Now reading _The Executor_ by Blake Morrison. 📚
Posted on March 12, 2018
I finally got to watch *Blade Runner 2049* last weekend. **Very** impressed with the film so have decided to re-read *Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?* to remind myself of where it all started. 🎬📚
Posted on March 12, 2018
Interesting article by Blake Morrison – Up in smoke: should an author's dying wishes be obeyed? 📚
Posted on March 7, 2018
Mary Wollstonecraft, author of *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman* (1792), the first book in English arguing for the equality of woman and men, must finally have her statue – more info at maryonthegreen.org