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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

ANCIENT CITIES: AMAZONIA2 and GREAT PLAINS [USA]

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Seven years ago this month, THE GENERALIST ran a long piece on the archaeological discoveries in Amazonia that showed evidence of a cons...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

THE ART OF THE MIMEOGRAPH: A SYMPOSIUM /ALT GAR BRA

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It's taken THE GENERALIST a week to get around to writing about the Mimeograph Symposium at the University of Westminster campu...

ACTIVISM: THE TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS, THE ANGRY BRIGADE and GRAPHIC PROTEST

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The Generalist enjoys the chancy nature of fishing for good DVDs in charity shops. This 3-DVD set is a treasure - the 1986 film 'Comra...
Monday, January 07, 2019

SF MASTERS: CIXIN LUI, STANISLAW LEM and JODOROWSKY'S DUNE

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  This extraordinary science fiction trilogy by CIXIN LIU, China's leading sf writer, is a mind-enlarging experience. For night aft...
Wednesday, January 02, 2019

BOMB CULTURE AT 50

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THE GENERALIST has written at some length already on Jeff Nuttall and his seminal book 'Bomb Culture'. Jeff was one of he f...

GABRIEL'S LAW: The £1 BOOK and SYNCHRONOUS THINKING

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THE GENERALIST has been taking much-needed R&R leave to get body and mind back in some sort of good shape, clearing the mind to a sheet ...
Monday, December 10, 2018

TREES IN ART1

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For five years (2000-2005) I edited a bi-annual nationally distributed magazine called Tree News , owned by the charity the Tree Council...

TREES IN ART2

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Pastoral with a Horse Chestnut Tree (1830-31] by Samuel Palmer A Study, In March by  John William Inchbold. 1855 'Silent Witne...
Tuesday, October 09, 2018

THE ANALOGUE WAVE: WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

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This post was triggered by listening to 'The Persistence of Analogue' on BBC Radio 4 in which technology writer Leigh Alexander ...