Tag Archives: Shakespeare

What is the value of words? The euro crisis, Shakespeare and the 2012 Olympics

Posted on 22 May 2012 by Propagandum

The current Greece-led euro crisis – #Grexit – may get a lot worse after the second national Greek election on 17 June. A lot (billions of euros) depends on a little (very small percentage differences in voter responses). (I leave … Continue reading →

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Ordinary is beautiful, beautiful is ordinary

Posted on 20 February 2012 by Propagandum

I hope this selection doesn’t seem too random; we all collect texts, images and things people say, don’t we? The justification, if I need one, is that I am trying to reflect, in this tiny collection, something of the ordinariness … Continue reading →

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Harry Potter and the Publishers’ Holy Grail IV

Posted on 16 December 2011 by Propagandum

I have been trying in the three previous Harry Potter posts to look at what went right with J. K. Rowling’s book series. In the first half of this final wildly ambitious post I’m attempting to get somewhere near a theory … Continue reading →

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Page against the machine 1 – Derrida and the great CD-ROM disaster

Posted on 21 November 2011 by Propagandum

While the form of the ‘book’ is now going through a period of general upheaval, and while that form now appears less natural, and its history less transparent than ever, and while one cannot tamper with it without disturbing everything … Continue reading →

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Harry Potter and the Publishers’ Holy Grail II

Posted on 12 October 2011 by Propagandum

In my previous post I suggested that the most successful publishing reflects back to us – at some level – our deepest preoccupations, perhaps ones we don’t even know about; perhaps there are some we don’t want to know about. … Continue reading →

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‘Explicit to the idiot …’

Posted on 30 July 2011 by Propagandum

Today, two things in my mind. One, William Blake’s extraordinary letter to the Reverend Dr Trusler (23 August 1799). For background, Blake was always very short of money; Trusler was offering to become a patron of Blake’s printed illustrations and … Continue reading →

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