Sci-fi has a pedigree of exploring contemporary issues through the engaging gauze of societies and contexts far removed from painful familiarity. Inequality is explicated through
Last week I had the privilege of speaking with Richard Gilman-Opalsky about his new book Specters of Revolt. Here is a 12-minute excerpt of our
by Tariq Goddard for the Quietus I came to extreme metal, or at least post-metal, sludge rock, or whatever experts in branding would describe Neurosis’s
Unsurprisingly, there’s a lot of bombast in the new Oasis documentary Supersonic. Everybody’s busy going mad for it and making history and being the biggest
Buffoonery is almost an extended phenotype of dictators, and in times and places in which seriousness, judiciousness, and integrity reign, the buffoon assumes his rightful
One in five CEO’s have high levels of psychopathic traits! It is a common headline. Bankers have no empathy, are greedy narcissists or egomaniacs. But
In the middle of the night the telephone rang. Lior Tirosh picked up the phone and a voice said, “Run.” Tirosh stared blearily at the
At the time of writing, six weeks have passed since the EU referendum and what have we learned, in that time? That ‘Brexit means Brexit’
This is an edited extract from Johanna Issacsson’s The Ballerina and the Bull: Anarchist Utopias in the Age of Finance (out now). By 1986 punk was
I interviewed JD Taylor—author of Island Story: Journeys Around Unfamiliar Britain—about the motives behind his extraordinary 4-month bike tour of the UK. Dan explains that the
This is an extract from The Living and the Dead by Toby Austin Locke. There is a launch event at The Word bookshop (Goldsmiths) on 4th
Soon it will be difficult to find anyone who will have admitted to doing it. Leave’s leaders are dropping like flies – they can emigrate
In an extract from her recent book Lean Out, Dawn Foster explores the limits of self-proclaimed feminist Theresa May’s solidarity with women. The notorious Yarl’s
J.D. Taylor on the Brexit vote’s fallout as a search for new island narratives. Strange energies have been unleashed by the Brexit campaign which no
Tariq Goddard delivers his verdict on Ocean Wisdom’s debut album For listeners of a certain age, myself for example, who feel all of their forty-one
Phil Knight’s take on the impending EU referendum On the surface, the debate, such that it is, around a possible exit of the United Kingdom
Mark Perryman previews England v Wales as competing versions of nationhood The traditional ‘Battle of Britain’ match is of course England v Scotland, the very
Graeme has a place waiting in the recently requisitioned Walpole Bay Hotel and Nick puts him in a USG minivan with a few other recent
Inspired by Matmos’ brilliant new album and live show, Ultimate Care II—made entirely from sounds created by and with their Whirlpool washing machine—we made a
Guest post by John Medhurst The central concern of modern politics is the extent to which the destructive, anti-social effects of neoliberal capitalism – most
Neil Kulkarni “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear” – C.S.Lewis, A Grief Observed Of course, what you mourn at first,
Psychopathy and sociopathy In my forthcoming book, The Psychopath Factory: How Capitalism Organizes Empathy (forthcoming from Repeater), I make a distinction between psychopathy and
Professional controversialist Toby Young has got himself all in a froth about a pink St George Cross at England’s international this week Oh dear. Toby
Who dares dissent from the gospel according to Silicon Valley? There is – we are insistently told – no alternative to the invasion of capitalist
Backlash “There’s no such thing as the voiceless, only the deliberately silenced and the preferably unheard.”—Arundhati Roy Post-crash, countless studies have shown that the impact
Repeater: What struck you about Susan Sontag’s diaries? Siouxzi Connor: I felt like an invader reading these things but at the same time couldn’t pull
….the shabby houses of La Villette and Bercy, where famous poets spilled wine across their tattered and eternally unfinished manuscripts while dashing to the floor
Guest post by David Stubbs. His next book, 1996 and the End of History, will be published by Repeater in 2016. The first time I
