Now the party’s over

Reivew of Paul Clements, The Creative Underground

Howard Feather ~ RP 2.02 (June 2018), pp. 120–122 ~ Review

Paul Clements, The Creative Underground: Art, Politics and Everyday Life (New York and London: Routledge, 2017). 232 pp., £110.00 hb., 978 1 13888 686 5 As Simone de Beauvoir notes in The Ethics of Ambiguity, the creative process is an event or ‘festival’ which demands a break with linear time, a de-temporalisation of modernity; a […]

England, whose England?

Jon Beasley-Murray ~ RP 134 (Nov/Dec 2005) ~ Commentary

Commentary England, whose England? Jon Beasley-Murray By their fear you shall know them. The USA responded to al-Qaedaʼs September 2001 attacks with a proliferation of ﬂags reafﬁrming national pride and widespread support for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, conﬁrmed by George W. Bushʼs 2004 re-election. Spain reacted to the Madrid train explosions of March […]