We rehearsed the crowd scenes in the Winter Palace, in the Throne Room and the Armorial Hall.

J.G. Ballard’s self-declared ‘Immodest Proposal’ for a global war-­alliance to exact the destruction of America demonstrates the provocatory zeal of his last fiction plans, as well as their enduring prescience.

“The thing about punk is that you’re allowed to talk about anything. Kids can talk about whatever they want. There’s nobody saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, it’s not punk.’”

In his photographs and texts, ­Calcutta-based Soham Gupta forces the tension that arises between fiction and real-life conditions in as yet unseen ways.

When it all burns you’ll know – a writer was there at the first…

A stupid tweet by a nobody, meant as a parody, somehow goes viral and the internet offers up death threats.

“There is something deeply humiliating in such a situation.”

“If you love your family, you want family abolition for them!”

Philosophy is found wanting. It is considered anachronistic, some say dead. The tradition is in ruins.

It is human selection that turns a machine selection that is meaningless because of its compilation criteria into a (potentially) meaningful narrative.