In 2009, Stephen Burt identified a new poetics for the twenty-first century, a poetics that insists on a kind of phenomenological permanence and solidity, on a material “thingness” rather than a ...

At Biophemera, Jessica Palmer takes a look at Mechanical Brides of the Uncanny. Actually a couple look to me a bit like cans. Like most junk science that just won't die, the polygraph stays with us.

The nature of 'ones to watch' type events, in which you can neatly insert the HMV Next Big Thing festival, denotes that most of the bands chosen have already been kicking around the gig circuit for ...