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Monday. 19 September 2011. Hastings Old Town. The eyes of the liberated and still nameless swan are blind as Homer. Which is appropriate. White plastic ridges in a sheltering declivity. The proud black beak points at the raging ocean, priapic as a rudder, and hinting at one disturbing fact: if the snout [...] SWANLOG DIARY Sunday. 18 September 2011. Hastings Old Town. Taking a feather dipped in the blood of my companion, who is visibly wasting before my eyes – and seizing every opportunity to demonstrate the extent of the damage by peeling off jacket and shirt like a Premier League footballer who has scored an accidental goal [...] “The psychosis of insane consumerism is spreading rapidly: handbag apocalypse. Sony warehouses trashed in Enfield retail park. Kids trying on 4 pairs of designer jeans as they sit among the burning pavements…” received on 08/08/2011 “street riots in Hackney (Mare St). I can hear the helicopters and police sirens. Looks like p.118 of ‘Ghost Milk’ was on the money. Images already running on YouTube. As William Gibson says, Twitter is the most accurate form of reportage here. A Twitter gathering, street news circulating faster than police information. [...] The Hague event was well-attended, with members of the audience coming from a whole scatter of disciplines. A street where I had been wandering, by accident, that afternoon, was connected with Sebald‘s excursion in ‘Rings of Saturn’. Another man told me how he carried through the project of living in his car, while staying on [...] |
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