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I love this film. But I think the IRA element is used formally as a signifier of some sort of 'pure' violence as opposed to the self-serving violence of Hoskins & Co. Its not making any political points about republicanism. It merely deploys a familar ideological idea of Irishness as associated...

Royle's book on Derrida is pretty good, but many of those little introductory squibs leave you none the wiser really, they're a waste of time, as I know from long experience. Eagleton's Ideology of the Aesthetic and Robert Young's White Mythologies are useful surveys that explore the terrain...

A feminist take on Bataille? Still reeling from this really. Bloody Nora, as they say.

I'm not sure if I know what I mean myself. I'm enoying these responses though :) On reflection, there's a quote from Walter Benjamin that I've always loved. He's talking about his time in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and he says 'In the Moscow street, the Russian village plays hide and seek'...

How much of Grime is archaic and how much is avant-garde? Do these distinctions make sense? Are they useful or should they be abandoned?

I thought it was a return to form after all the Cannes stuff, the NFT and Millenium wheel section was superb.

All of these, at the same time.

April

Also Gadaffi supplying the Provos with semtex and RPGs throughout the eighties.

You had a bad teacher then :(

Its difficult to make a film with several main actors, say eight, without resorting to stereotype for at least half of them. What the papers refer to as ensemble playing is basically a parade of the usual bints and bounders parading their usual tics and turns, no? Agnes Jaoui's 'Look At Me'...

Well the octopus scene was certainly about enjoyment (Zizek TM), whether fake or real. ;)

Plasticman on Rinse tonight said that when he was putting this tune together he was imagining a very fat man walking up a steep hill with the wind ruffling his supermarket bags full of corned beef. Flab-step?

Thanks for this, I'll have to check out Nas again. Anything outside hip-hop?

I don't mean carefully constructed lyrics that use the accepted codes and conventions of 'poetry' in the traditional sense, I mean language taking over from the voice: channelling, incantation. Its there in Beefheart I think, and it absolutely cannot be divorced from the other sonic components...

Imagine Condy explaining this to George over Pretzels. And more seriously, why has evolutionary theory become the key to everything? http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1353706,00.html

Japanese society was propelled into so-called modernity by the bomb; middle european society by the camps; Irish society by the famine. All are haunted by ghosts of a folk culture that was not yet ready to die.

Yes, but if the death drive exists, as you have always argued, then to have a semblance of society they will always be with us. Like the poor.

Adrian Searle's visual art reviews in the Guardian on Tuesdays always worth reading.

couldn't agree more with luka here. For a city the size of London the state of the bookshops is a disgrace. The LRB bookshop in Bury place is good, though maybe not specifically for the areas you are interested in.