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Productive Pleasure: Alfie Bown’s Enjoying It Reviewed

Looking at psychological and social power structures and stark capitalist reality through the lens of Candy Crush and YouTube wormholes, Joe Kennedy considers the ideas of productive and unproductive pleasures and sympathy with pretentiousness via Alfie Bown's Enjoying It

Books

Top Of The Curve: Wayne Holloway Interviewed

Kit Caless, publisher at Influx Press, speaks to Wayne Holloway - author of Land Of Hunger, a book of short stories that could be (and maybe sort of is) a novel - about the value of sentiment, 'banging for Marx', and balancing left-wing views with capitalist reality

Books

Content With Content: Lee Rourke & Kit Caless On Will Wiles’ The Way Inn

Kit Caless sits down with novelist Lee Rourke one afternoon in a café in Leigh-on-Sea to discuss - via junkspace, non-space, soft furnishings and fear - the themes explored in Will Wiles' second novel, The Way Inn

Books

Žižek The Curator: The Year Of Dreaming Dangerously Reviewed

Joshua Warren attempts to unravel the often celebrated but always controversial philosopher's latest work

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Broken Spines: Literary Links

Vanity is cool when you're beautiful and the mirror is reciprocative of your adulation, but there is a world outside (which also often contains windows and even puddles so as not to go too long without catching a glimpse of those architecturally-brutalist cheekbones) which contains other people. In summary: good articles were written recently by other people — here are some of them

TONIGHT: Slavoj Žižek & Teeth Of The Sea

Cafe Oto will be hosting an overnight reading from Žižek's Less Than Nothing with music from Teeth of the Sea (DJ set). More details about the 24 hour event below

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Sucker Punch: An Interview With Fist City

Fist City's joyous punk rock mêlée delivers a double knockout blow, blending wild immediacy with subtle lyrical depth. Tom Hannan catches up with singer Kier Griffiths to discuss how both personal and political issues are intertwined in their new album

News

LISTEN: Pontiak – Wildfires

New track from forthcoming album INNOCENCE ahead of live dates in April and May

A Quietus Interview

Discomfort Zone: An Interview With Mary Epworth

Mary Epworth tells John Freeman why the sonic reboot of second album, Elytral, was inspired by a desire to be “out of her depth” and resulted in a musical epiphany and an unique new sound

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Women Singing Against Binary Britain: Goldfrapp & Lips Choir

Tim Burrows speaks to the all-female 70-strong Lips choir at their recent gig with Goldfrapp about the importance of creating autonomous spaces of song in a sexist and nasty age. Photographs by Hayley Hatton, live picture by Christie Goodwin

Electronic

One Take: A New Grime Column By Tomas Fraser

The Quietus finally has a grime column! In the first instalment, Tomas Fraser witnesses an epic DJ set by Slackk at Peckham's Rye Wax and reviews new tracks from Dark0, the infernally young DeeCee and Ruff Sqwad stalwart Rapid. There's also a look at the imagery of Wot Do You Call It, who provided this photograph of Rapid

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Zizek

Articles 4

Productive Pleasure: Alfie Bown’s Enjoying It Reviewed

Top Of The Curve: Wayne Holloway Interviewed

Content With Content: Lee Rourke & Kit Caless On Will Wiles’ The Way Inn

Žižek The Curator: The Year Of Dreaming Dangerously Reviewed