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Eight Screens at Farringdon

Posted on 10 February 2012 by Robert

Earlier this week I uploaded this short clip of a train pulling in to Farringdon Station, as filmed by the eight platform cameras and piped to the array of monitors near the top of the platform. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robertsharp.co.uk%2F2012%2F02%2F10%2F8screens%2F’; addthis_title … Continue reading →

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Remixing Disney Princesses

Posted on 31 January 2012 by Robert

It is unsruprising that iconoclastic artists use the images of Disney characters in their work. Continue reading →

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On The Censorship of Cricket

Posted on 26 January 2012 by Robert

The thing that caught my ear this morning was the cricket scores. England are on tour, playing Pakistan… in Abu Dhabi. The English cricketers cannot travel to play in actual Pakistan due to security threats. This echoes the problems experienced … Continue reading →

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The Mealie Mouthed Statement from the #Jaipur Literary Festival

Posted on 21 January 2012 by Robert

I’ve just been sent this rather mealie mouthed statement, apparently from the Jaipur Literary Festival, in response to a protest by authors Hari Kunzru, Jeet Thayil and others. They read from The Satanic Verses at the festival after Salman Rushdie … Continue reading →

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Sharing Adele on the Internet

Posted on 20 January 2012 by Robert

It is enriching art like this which is likely to be compromised by the propose SOPA legislation in the USA. Continue reading →

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How the Depiction of Technology in #Sherlock Captures the Zeitgeist

Posted on 8 January 2012 by Robert

In a paywalled Times article this time last week, Hugo Rifkind highlighted our loss of the communal Christmas TV moment. EastEnders can never achieve the dizzy ratings heights of the 1980s, Eric and Ernie are dead, and even the numbers … Continue reading →

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The End of Cultural History?

Posted on 21 December 2011 by Robert

What drives this retor chic, this nostalgia at the expense of innovation? I think it is due to a decline in the belief that we are progressing. Continue reading →

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Gingrich, Bin Laden, and Issac Asimov

Posted on 19 December 2011 by Robert

Apparently, the megalomaniac tendencies that many perceive in Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich are inspired by Iassac Asimov: If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, Newt Gingrich is from the planet Trantor, a fictional world created by Isaac … Continue reading →

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Niall Ferguson threatens to sue Mishra

Posted on 30 November 2011 by Robert

Oh dear. We now hear that Ferguson is threatening legal action, which rather undermines my point about the classiness of ‘counter-speech’ over legal threats. Continue reading →

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Shadow Cities

Posted on 17 November 2011 by Robert

This is a marvellous evocation of why I enjoy much of the literature and imagery that I do. I have discussed the idea of overlaying of invisible worlds onto aphysical space quite a lot on this blog. Continue reading →

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