In 2009, Stephen Burt identified a new poetics for the twenty-first century, a poetics that insists on a kind of phenomenological permanence and solidity, on a material “thingness” rather than a ...

The nature of 'ones to watch' type events, in which you can neatly insert the HMV Next Big Thing festival, denotes that most of the bands chosen have already been kicking around the gig circuit for ...

‘Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind…in order to manipulate, exploit, control… ...