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Category: Asides

1 March 2013 Asides

The useful uselessness of art

Everyone knows the usefulness of what is useful, but few know the usefulness of what is useless. Zhuangzi Human beings

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24 January 2013 Asides / Thinking

The mailman’s authority

‘Alert always to “Wittgenstein’s distinction between all the trivia you can talk about, and all the essentials you can’t,” Steiner

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14 September 2012 Asides

Literary novels and the Counter-Reformation

The priests of the Temple of Literature have been issuing instruction, as the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize was

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14 August 2012 Asides

Memories worth having

Is it worth it  A new winter coat and shoes for the wife  And a bicycle on the boy’s birthday

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19 March 2012 Asides

Theatre as solidarity

We ask no money for our performances. We ask for the public to contribute with food products with extended shelf

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16 March 2012 Asides

Montaigne as a blogger

‘There should be some legal restraint aimed against inept and useless writers, as there is against vagabonds and idlers. Both

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3 February 2012 Asides

Pixelated death

Bad guys in movies used to come to sticky ends, in a bloody hammering of bullets or falling off tall

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François Matarasso

François Matarasso

I'm a community artist, writer and researcher, working in Europe. My latest book, 'A Restless Art' (London 2019), is about the history, theory and practice of participatory art.

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