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Event type: discussion

Room Tone: Scanner
Robin Rimbaud has been a fixture of British electronic music since the early 1990s. To launch Verdurin’s new series of critical listening sessions, he presents his album ‘Fibolae’, with a response from music writer Tim Rutherford-Johnson.
October 23, 2026
Nitrate Film: The East is Red
An industrial revolution in cultural production that both impresses and terrifies.
July 7, 2026
Nitrate Film: Henry V
Shakespeare’s Henry V bookends the Second World War. How did Olivier turn the consumers of history into its protagonists?
June 6, 2026
The Last Election?
Every American election promises to be the last.
June 5, 2026
Inside the Panopticon
The information age is here. It’s just not evenly distributed.
May 28, 2026
History’s back, baby!
They say that “nothing ever happens”. Pah! Something ever happens.
May 12, 2026
The Counterfeit Spirit
We live in a culture gorged in spectacle but starved for meaning — a late-stage Babylon in which spirit and matter cannot find their place.
April 24, 2026
The Call of England
What would a journey in search of England reveal today? Do myths from a hundred years ago help us understand what it might uncover? A special preview screening of John Gillam’s video travelogue and discussion with David Goodhart and Harrison Pitt.
April 2, 2026
The Genital Stage
Progressive societies have dismantled many of the prohibitions that once ring-fenced errant sexual desires. Were ‘heteronormative’ orthodox Freudian ideas like ‘genitality’ useful after all?
February 19, 2026
Margins
With content that explores the edges of society and subjective experience, Jeppesen and Benderson write at the edge of established forms.
January 21, 2026
Shakespeare, Elites, Power
Shakespeare weighs heavily on the British political imagination. What use is the canon to contemporary political analysis?
January 19, 2026
After the Orgy
The authors of ‘Inversion’ and ‘The End of the Gay Rights Revolution’ in conversation.
November 15, 2025
Recitations: Three
However closely the machine imitates our narrative abilities, its lack of authorship means we cannot trust its output in the way we believe the work of a writer. How should we adapt to authorless stories?
November 11, 2025
Inversion launch in Berlin
Launch of ‘Inversion’ at Village Berlin with contributors and editors in discussion.
November 5, 2025
Glenn Belverio: Downtown
Downtown is the site of permanent cultural war. Glenn Belverio’s recorded the cast of characters, including Camille Paglia and Bruce LaBruce, who dominated New York’s cultural scene in the 1990s.
July 18, 2025
Stop All the Clocks
Why does it take rupture to reveal the capacities of the systems we have designed to shield us from collapse?
July 10, 2025
Alexander Adams: Leaving Las Vegas
What if the artist’s only way out of the art world is through art?
April 29, 2025
Philip Cunliffe: The National Interest
What does it mean for a nation to put its interest first?
April 17, 2025
Over the Rainbow
The history of gay liberation has been a dance of two steps forward, a step backwards, and a few sideway jumps. Today, a new fight for another vision of LGBTQ+ freedom rages on.
December 17, 2024
Art of Darkness: Goya’s Demons
Francisco Goya captured the darkness of his time like no other artist. From war to personal torment, his visions still haunt us.
December 11, 2024

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