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Kierkegaard. The sickness unto death. The concept of anxiety. Marx’s Capital. Tarkovsky’s Stalker. Perec. Blanchot. The nihilism of Joy Division. Herzog’s Strosczek. Prince Far-I. The anti gravity of dub.

It’s all in here. All mixed up in a melting pot of curiosity and endless playfulness. Magnificent.

“They speak - Of the loneliness of the long distance postdoctoral researcher”

“Postgraduates are the angels of the academic world we agree. They’re between worlds - between the heaven of lecturers and the hell of the undergraduate They teach but they are not part of the teaching staff They study but they’re not entirely students either”

“He’s read of Debord in his later years in his luxurious apartment spending whole days planning elaborate meals and choosing fine wines”

“Private schools with girls in boaters and boys in caps and blazers and mothers at the gates in sparkling Jeeps. W is overwhelmed with class hatred. He recites the names of Marxist revolutionaries to calm himself down”