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student and hunter
The text is a forest in which the reader is hunter. Rustling in the underbrush - the idea, skittish prey, the citation - another piece 'in the bag.' (Not every reader encounters the idea).
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, m2a,1

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23 enigma
I first heard of the 23 enigma from William S Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, etc. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark’s ship ...

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arch gallery project space
Immediately next to the gallery on Resolution Way, Arch is now offering a similar sized project space for hire...
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'soul imaging: the image captured'
Patrick Semple

The magic first glimpsed in the eye of the camera has never quite left us despite photography's long claim to a scientific objectivity. It is as if we want to believe in the captured soul despite our faith in the material world. That the infinite detail of reality can be contained within the picture surface is something like a miracle and suggests perhaps that the rational materialist view is somehow incomplete...
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Life -File: William S Burroughs at Riflemaker from 16th December
Raising Ground BearSpace 7th Nov - 13th Dec
FEATURED ARTIST
Bea Denton
Emyr Williams at APT
27th Nov - 14th Dec
PECULIAR PROCESSES - Natalia Skobeeva at Viewfinder 22nd Nov - 4th Jan 09