I’m pleased to hear that the Last of Us is getting a sequel or more accurately a continuation. It seems to me an appropriate opportunity to examine the considerable influence of the original game. For … Read More
‘Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.’
I’ve always thought (and it’s just my opinion) that a magazine such as Abridged (if there are magazines like Abridged) needs to be more than the sum of its contents. It has to have a … Read More
It might be true but it’s not what happened…
So this is the first proper post of my ACNI ACES ‘1979’ project. There’s three essays. I know where I want them to go. I’m just not entirely sure of which road they will take. … Read More
Laboratory
In April and May 1979, a large amount of anthrax was accidentally released from a bio-chemical factory (mysteriously named Military Compound 19) in Sverdlovsk, USSR (now Yekaterinburg in Russia) killing over 60 people downwind to the South-East … Read More
Why is it Always December?
After Lethe and Floodland comes ‘Why is always December?’ the third of our (very loose) trilogy exploring oblivion, memory and the fear of losing identity. Why is it always December? interrogates our need to memorialise … Read More
Abridged 0 – 48: Mercury Red
This is the age of the inspirational. We wake up each morning to a torrent of messages on social media informing us that if we ‘be ourselves’ and ‘believe in ourselves’ we can achieve the … Read More
A Many Splintered Thing (with Susanne Stich)
LOVE IS A MANY SPLINTERED THING – Andrew Eldritch “while everywhere love is breathing draftily” – Frank O’Hara Our sense of love is conjured vaguely in our sleep, without sound or alphabet, by the mixing … Read More
I Will Go There, Take Me Home
Escape, it’s all about escape. But can we escape? Are we prisoners of our personal histories, the wider histories of those around us and the mythologies that allow a civilization to function. The ancient promise … Read More
Once A Railroad in collaboration with Mara Cavalli
History, theoretically is about facts, about what happened and when. We all know it’s more than that. It’s a mix of fact, fiction and on occasion outright fantasy. This project takes a psycho-geographical/historical approach mixing … Read More