Synopsis
Logic Bomb tunnels deep into the collective unconcious of the last ten years offering a core sample of transglobal style, a collection of pieces by Steve Beard. Logic Bomb provides a mix of celebrity interviews, personality profiles, event reviews, Q&As, industry exposes, and conceptual lines of escape.
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Journalist Steve Beard says he likes to think of himself as a "smuggler of intellectual contraband." This collection of articles, interviews, letters, random thoughts, and "conceptual lines of escape" sees him opening up his false-bottomed suitcase and showing the world just what he's gotten away with over the last 10 years. Beard has always attempted to "bring ideas from the margins in to the mainstream," says Matthew Collin in the preface to this book, and in a decade of writing for what used to be known as the "style press," Beard has consistently larded his pieces on music, art, fashion, films, literature, whatever with a dizzying appreciation of modernisms from postmodernism to technological humanism, from gothic Marxism to modern primitivism. Whether discussing Burroughs or Ballard, Damien Hirst or Dennis Hopper, Beard exhibits a vast range of references and reading. He's just as comfortable talking about Euro-Disney--"a god damned semiotic paradise"--as he is about the University of Warwick Virtual Futures Conference. You may think that such a wide-ranging book would be difficult to navigate. Don't worry, it's structured like a scrapbook--an idea "partly suggested by the ethnographic surrealist Marcel Mauss"--and has a most helpful index of concepts as well as of names. --Nick Wroe
About the Author
Steve Beard dropped out of Cambridge University in 1987 and began writing for i-D magazine just as the acid house scene hit London. Since then he has contributed to The Face, Arena, RAY guN, Skin Two, Wired, Sight & Sound and Artscribe. He is the author of the conceptual novel Perfumed Head and the cypherpunk novel Digital Leatherette. His short stories have appeared in the anthologies Disco 2000 and Suspect Device, also published by Serpent's Tail.
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