Carl Neville
Carl Neville is a writer and critic currently based in London. He blogged as the Impostume and was instrumental in setting up a series of now defunct popular blogs on the 70s, 80s and 90s. He is currently film critic for Tribune and released two short books on film, Classless (2010) and No More Heroes? (2015), with Zer0 Books. The first half of a dystopian/utopian novel dyad, Resolution Way, was published by Repeater in 2016; the second part, Eminent Domain, is due out with same publisher in 2020.
All essays by Carl Neville
24 Hour Theory People: Part 3
‘Fruitful misunderstandings’ strikes me as a good way to think about the blogosphere — and, actually, as a good way of describing what interesting criticism does, in so far as you never really ‘understand’ a work you’re responding to in any transparent, straightforward sense.
24 Hour Theory People: Part 2
For me, the easiest way to demonstrate the uniqueness of the blog medium is to think about why the k-punk book instantly and overwhelmingly prompts that question of its migration across media, a question which would not even arise for an anthology of newspaper or journal articles.
24 Hour Theory People: Mark Fisher and the blogosphere
There’s been a lot written already about the work of the late English writer, blogger and cultural theorist Mark Fisher, who died in 2017. Last year, a substantial anthology of Mark’s blog writing — together with interviews, reviews, and an unfinished manuscript fragment — was published as k-punk (Repeater Books), which was also the name of his highly influential blog.