Category Archives: China Mieville

China Miéville on contemporary London full version

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

I mentioned this piece in The New York Times a few days back. A fuller, illustrated version is here.

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China Miéville on contemporary London

Posted on March 1, 2012 by

Powerful writing in The New York Times. [A fuller, illustrated version is here] London is full of ghosts — ghost walks; a city’s worth of cemeteries; ghost-advertising, scabs of paint on brick. The city invoked something, read a grimoire it … Continue reading →

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A book reading meme

Posted on November 12, 2011 by

A book meme I took from Rob Kitchin’s The View from the Blue House. I’ve largely answered in relation to non-academic reading… The book I’m currently reading? Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood The last book I finished? Thaisa Frank, Heidegger’s Glasses … Continue reading →

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Graham Harman interview

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

New interview with Graham Harman here – his own work, poetry, art, politics, OWS, China Miéville, H.P. Lovecraft, etc. Some particularly interesting discussion of writing. Since he discusses Lovecraft and the book he has coming out on him, what better … Continue reading →

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More on the New College

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

Birkbeck have issued a press release saying Grayling has resigned and that they are not providing facilities; Terry Eagleton calls it odious; the college is accused of copying syllabuses (shouldn’t that be syllabi?); in the same report we hear that Boris Johnston … Continue reading →

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Roundup

Posted on May 22, 2011 by

Back home in York. Lots to catch up on. Graham Harman’s review of Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter is in the new issue of New Formations (via Graham’s blog). Doesn’t seem to be available online. Visual/Method/Culture is a new blog from … Continue reading →

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Miéville and Bryant

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

Interesting review of China Miéville’s The City and the City in The Boston Review (via Crooked Timber). Levi Bryant discusses his next book project The Domestication of Humans: A Prolegomena to Posthumanist Sociology, here. The link? Both touch on themes I … Continue reading →

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China Miéville on Fiction and Politics

Posted on April 3, 2011 by

The Weird: a discussion of fiction and politics with China Miéville here. Discussion based, rather than a formal talk, but his answers are detailed and there is a lot of interesting stuff here about genres in literature, political symbolism of … Continue reading →

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The spaces of China Miéville

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

Very interesting interview with China Miéville here, particularly focusing on architecture, the city and the other geographies of his novels. Thanks to Graham Harman for the link.

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Egyptian protest planning leaflet

Posted on January 30, 2011 by

 Bit late linking to this – it’s been around for a few days – but The Atlantic has translated some of the leaflet which makes for interesting reading – with some background in The Guardian here. Because of the … Continue reading →

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