We asked guest curator, Robert Barry to select something of his own work: “I’ve been editing the Quietus’s art pages since last autumn. This interview with Martin Creed was one of the most enjoyable to conduct and required the least editing.”
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: pedantry in space
Guest curator, Robert Barry: “Sam Kriss has a good line in invective. Here it is aimed at the “pompous, self-important, and utterly cretinous” pedantry of the I Fucking Love Science brigade.”
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The New Man of 4chan
Guest curator, Robert Barry: “Anti-feminist, anti-mass culture, and potentially dangerous, Angela Nagle takes a nuanced peek inside the festering beta male ideology of the net’s most notorious chatroom.”
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Yowl at the moon: Dylan Nyoukis, the vocal improviser who ‘just wants to be left alone’
Guest curator, Robert Barry: “Nyoukis is a brilliant performer and his Chocolate Monk label has long been a source of strange and wonderful sounds, so it’s a treat to see him in such salubrious surroundings.”
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Twitter and the Novel
Guest curator, Robert Barry: “Marzoni’s essay for this fine online literary journal draws a fascinating trace from Henry James’s fondness for telegrams to the ‘twitter-novels’ of Teju Cole and Tao Lin.”
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