Sublime

It’s growth, then decay, then

He was just part of the overall erasure that I was enacting: the eradication of my real self into the tangible participant who saw everything as normal.

In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool.”

The 80s were the period when capitalist realism was fought for and established, when Margaret Thatcher’s doctrine that ‘there is no alternative’ – as succinct a slogan of capitalist realism as you could hope for – became a brutally self-fulfilling prophecy.

(A Taste of Honey.)

‘Broadcasting’, he said, ‘is the control of suspense.

perforce,