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A historical novel that conjures an engrossing city-space, with a pro-psychedelic slant and a very strong ending

Memes have changed. Maybe they’re not even memes anymore, just image edits – no joke, no meaning, no information, signifiers pointing nowhere, all that remains is a condensation of a specific moment. Two folkloric characters (the Antichrist and the Sorcerer) cast adrift.

There is a mise-en-abîme in Islington Third Space.

For health reasons

COS playing one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.

Raven Row yesterday

“The Vulgar Image reflects the artificial and desireless qualities of the present. It is pornography for a society that is losing its lust.” – Dean Kissick shop.spikeartmagazine.com/products/issue…

The thing about Romans is that they consume giant amounts of whipped cream.

Caravaggio’s three John the Baptists reunited in Rome

Really excellent New Yorker essay on hoop dreams, and the American Dream, and the debilitating effects of too much optimization, refinement, and data analysis: