Inside A Gleaming Feeling

by Craig Pollard

Inside a Gleaming Feeling is a slim collection of writings by Newcastle‑based artist and academic Craig Pollard, bringing together conference papers, lectures and excerpts about music, creative practice and the internet. The texts explore the paradoxes and contradictions of contemporary culture without settling into simple categories. Rather than separating ideas into opposites, Pollard traces how different threads intersect and fold into each other, pointing towards moments of possibility and reflection.

148 pages, Paperback

Published June 18, 2020

Reviews

[Maik · Rating 3 out of 5]

Let us hope that Pollard doesn't consider his thesis his magnum opus!
While the first half is composed of really wonderful, interesting pieces of writing, the thesis excerpts art the back are sadly riddled with bad faith arguments, inconsistent logic, and perplexing choices of what is and isn't left explained (at times patronising, at others frustrating for the logical leaps during which it hopes the reader is along for the ride).
To return to the first part of the book, though, is to find a pair of really great essays covering hardcore and hip-hop respectively. Are these flashes of brilliance rendered frustrating by what is to come? Fortunately not, but I wasn't sure what to write next and resorted to the lazy trope of a rhetorical question.