SFULTRA #39 - His Master's Voice - Stanislaw Lem
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“So I think when I’m looking at you, I see you there. But I can’t just explain what you are. I see you there and you could be photographed, but then after you’d been photographed, one still wouldn’t know what your realism was. You’d have to find a technique by which you can give over all the pulsations of a realism of a person… I’m talking bollocks…” - Francis Bacon, The Brutality Of Fact
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SFULTRA #38 - Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand - Samuel R. Delany
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“If you can talk about it, why paint it?” - Francis Bacon
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SFULTRA #37 - Red Hook Variations
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Main works discussed: The Horror at Red Hook - H. P. Lovecraft The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle The Courtyard - Alan Moore Neonomicon - Alan Moore Providence - Alan Moore “So you think you know what terror is As it stares from the newspaper page Yeah of course you all know what horror is It's the rage of the age Well, intimidation doesn't have a focus It oozes from every pore Murder doesn't bother to whisper In this fucking town it roars” - The Badge Means You Suck, AK-47 “Old time, something come back again If you have a start, then you must have an end None of them ever...
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SFULTRA #36 - Vurt - Jeff Noon
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"Tell me what you know about a man's affliction PC plod talk pure science fiction" - Cowboy Dave, Happy Mondays
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Right Where You Are Sitting Now #2 - Routine Excercise
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"You can't have feelings alone" - William Burroughs, Naked Lunch
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Right Where You Are Sitting Now #1 - My Past, Like A Terrible River
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Works covered: And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks Junky: The Definitve Text Of Junk Queer Yage Redux
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SFULTRA #35 - Beasts - John Crowley
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"The elementary unit of language — the statement — is the order-word. Rather than common sense, a faculty for the centralization of information, we must define an abominable faculty consisting in emitting, receiving, and transmitting order-words. Language is made not to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience...Words are not tools, but we give children language, pens, and notebooks as we give workers shovels and pickaxes. A rule of grammar is a power marker before it is a syntactical marker. The order does not refer to prior significations or to a prior organization of...
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The Black Pool with Tim MacGabhann
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To celebrate the release of his memoir The Black Pool on May 22nd, I spent 2 hours boring my close friend Tim MacGabhann into unconsciousness. Book launch details: 6pm, May 22nd in Hodges Figgis Dublin. Click here to read an extract that became the opening chapter: Link to preorder or buy The Black Pool:
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SFULTRA #34 - Holy Lacrimony - Michael DeForge
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"You get under my skin I don't find it irritating, You always play to win but I won't need rehabilitating oh no" - Another Girl Another Planet, The Only Ones
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DUBLIN EVENT MAY 10th - Barbaric Genius Extended Cut Screening/ Director Q+A/ Vsevolod Plotkin Noise Set
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Full details of the event are here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/event-dublin-may-127442825
info_outline“So many great books have drowned in respect” - Iain Sinclair, Crash
“Vaughn never been a duck-and-diver
He spit on the mic, yuck, saliva
Hold it like a truck driver hold a CB on a sharp turn
Still clutchin' his chest from the heartburn…” - Viktor Vaughn, Saliva
"Into the thundering cannon and into the murdering gun" - William Blake, Jerusalem