‘Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin: The Expanding Cosmologies of the Live Space Ritual’
Greatly expanded and revised version of an essay first published in the programme to the Space Music Festival held at the Korzo Theatre in Den Haag in 1999
‘Any Disease on Earth: Richard H. Kirk in conversation, January 2000’
Politics and BPMs at the dawn of the new millennium, from Cabaret Voltaire to Electronic Eye, algorithmic surveillance and covert culture. Published in the first issue of The Wire to appear in 2000.
‘Dawn of the Replicants: Luther Blisset, World Domination and the Virtual Pop Star’
Multiple personality disorders, fragmenting identities and the collapse of political power in Italy, published in The Wire.
Countless reviews, short features and columns appeared throughout 2000 in The Wire, Sight and Sound, Manga Max and Bizarre.
About Me
- Ken Hollings
- Ken Hollings is a writer based in London. His work appears in a wide range of journals and publications, including The Wire, Sight and Sound, Strange Attractor, Frieze, Noon and Satori, and in numerous anthologies and collections. His novel Destroy All Monsters was hailed by The Scotsman as ‘a mighty slab of trippy, cult, out-there fiction, mind-bending reading’. He has written and presented critically acclaimed programmes for BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, Resonance FM, NPS in Holland and ABC Australia. Ken is the author of Welcome to Mars, The Bright Labyrinth, The Space Oracle, Inferno and Purgatory - all available from Strange Attractor Press/MIT. His latest book 'Paradise: The Trash Project Volume Three' will be published by Strange Attractor Press/MIT in the autumn of 2024. His album with Howlround as The Howling, Incredible Night Creatures of the Midway, is currently available from The Tapeworm.