Currently Reading

Deep in Gilles Deleuze's essay 'Coldness and Cruelty' published as some kind of introduction to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus In Furs (Zone Books). Not the best of Deleuze's writings, but interesting regardless of its flaws. Also slowly reading Ray Brassier's Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment And Extinction (Palgrove), and, for light relief, Arcana V edited by John Zorn. All of these texts no doubt leading, in someway, to some footnote or later observation somewhere down the line.

Finally, partway through Werner Herzog's Conquest of the Useless(Ecco) which is a passioned journal into both the shooting of Fitzcaraldo and also into the director's inner landscape. One quote should suffice: "A vision has seized hold of me, like the demented fury of a hound that has sunk its teeth into the leg of a deer carcass and is shaking and tugging at the downed game so frantically that the hunter gives up trying to calm him."