Hugh Ortega Breton
October 2007
Lifeless eyes
This is definitely a powerful anti-war movie, but its power is diffused inwardly rather than outwardly focused onto the centres of political power. The dead cannot see, but neither can the living when the feeling is too strong to be understood.
April 2007
Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists
Williams’ critique of cultural pessimism (from Culture & Technology, written in 1983) remains relevant given the still current trend to disavow the future and its alternative potential, and to categorise new technologies alternately as both determinants of social change and threats to established artistic, now ‘classicalised’, forms.
