Warren Ellis waxes poetic on “Vintage Space” and The Everlasting Anachropresent.
“This is the last western generation that will be lost.”
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Oh God Apparently I Said All These Things On Twitter About The Olympic Opening Ceremony – Warren Ellis
Warren Ellis comments Olympics opening
I’m so sorry
Just thought it might be useful our entertaining for someone if I organized all the tweets Warren Ellis has published during the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony, directed by Danny Boyle.
Via Storify and WarrenEllis.com
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David Malone’s Dangerous Knowledge
Via WarrenEllis.com:
One of the very interesting people I met at How The Light Gets In was the writer and filmmaker David Malone. In conversation with him and (it was a very weird weekend, okay?) Michael Nyman and the head of cultural affairs at the Mexican embassy to the UK, he’d mentioned that some of his work had been uploaded by other people to the net. Also, that his preferred form, the lyric televisual essay, had gone out of fashion. As I’ve noted here more than once, proper rhetorical television isn’t really made any more.
So I went looking, when I got home. And I found his DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE:
In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians – Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing – whose genius
Warren Ellis on The DisinfoCast with Matt Staggs
Warren Ellis | The DisinfoCast with Matt Staggs: Episode 08
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Legendary comics author and novelist Warren Ellis joins me on The DisinfoCast for a conversation about the future that was, artificial intelligence, the Singularity, aliens (ancient and otherwise), the legacy of Hunter S. Thompson, porn and even a little bit about comic books. Tune in.
In Defense of the Hipster: Part 2
PART 2: AUTHENTICITY IS BULLSHIT, or: POP IS THE NEW PUNK
(Part 1, titled “What Is A Hipster, And Why Does Everyone Hate Them? or: You’re So Fake (And So Am I)“, can be found here.)
As noted in Part 1, the main thrust of the criticisms against hipsters have roots in a notion of authenticity. Lorentz mentions the words “authentic” and “inauthentic” a dozen times in his article, and the Adbusters piece is just as bad. It’s a fair charge to say that hipsters fetishize the authentic, as Lorentz does. This is hardly unique to hipsters, though; one can find it in practically any sub-culture. It’s so common that I find it disingenuous to use it as a criticism of hipsters and Hipsterism. The problem, as I see it, is that notion of authenticity being used is utter bullshit.
Some years ago, before I became a hipster or had even heard of hipsters, I was confirmed as “real” at a party by a group of counter-culture kids.… Read the rest
