'... an inverse relationship to new technology, a rejection of digital media, and a fascination with the obsolete and the analog: 35-mm slides, celluloid film, record players, and the like.'
- claire bishop, information overload: the superabundance of research based art in art forum april 2023.
'dear diaries (published as books)... please come and save me from having nothing to write.' - horsemouth, 23rd april 2025, unpublished.
nothing in the kilvert on this day and horsemouth has forgotten what year he is on with the kafka. if it's 1916 there's no post until 11th may. if it's 1915 he's on holiday on the 27th. in early may (1915) he's back to his usual whining (but consoled by strindberg - 'read strindberg, who sustains me.' )
everybody seems to go on holiday in april.
elsewhere in horsemouth's reading eugénie grandet is going well. the miser is in his house and the cousin has just arrived. it's november 1819 (p.70).
superabundance
what horsemouth forgot to say was that this was the real thing about the modern world (with its manufacturing and distribution). digital has driven this on still further and we seek to return to physical things, the merely printed and collected.
to follow up on the claire bishop, people are interested in the old media - it is seen as being more authentic less mediated than the social media stuff.
this week on radio 4 like and subscribe a show on youtube (and all that jazz).
and over on youtube
bookpilled is back reviewing a pile of books,
and outlaw bookseller is reviewing the great english catastrophe novel.
later on horsemouth will watch nightfall again (a jacques tourneur noir with anne bancroft as the girl mixed up in it).
rainy morning.
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