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Will Self's interactive media essay - click on pic or link HERE
Will Self on Bucket Lists
Feb. 18th, 2015 02:45 pm
To paraphrase Eighties art-rockers Talking Heads’ immortal lyrics: “And you may find yourself, staying in a 15-star hotel… And you may find yourself, horning cocaine from the jewelled navel of a nubile… And you may find yourself, in the most dramatic landscape in the world… And you may find yourself, behind the wheel of a high-performance automobile that’s just slain a deer… And you may find yourself, about to tuck into a dish of the potentially poisonous piscine delicacy, fugu… And you may well ask yourself… well, how did I get here?”
Full Article HERE
Will Self: The awful cult of the talentless hipster has taken over
Our generation is to blame – we’re the ones who took the avant-garde and turned it into a successful rearguard action by the flying columns of capitalism’s blitzkrieg.
Link to original item at New Statesman here
Will Self on Digital Media
May. 28th, 2014 08:53 amAs I am writing for digital media next academic year, I was very interested in what Self had to say about literature and its placement in the digital age.
