Ed Luker
@edluker.bsky.social
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Writer, poet, critic. Blog:
http://belowdeck.substack.com
Links:
http://linktr.ee/ed.luker
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I log in to Bluesky like an ageing hustler remembering the good old days. Taking a drag on my cigarette, I reminisce about my 2.5k Twitter followers, the past 10k+ likes, all the ease of days gone, and walk back out the door.
8 months ago
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got told at the house party that I’m being subtweeted
4 months ago
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I wrote about my 24 hour Caravaggio bender in Rome for Plaster
4 months ago
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I was listening to this earlier and it struck me how much of an influence Brian Wilson’s instrumental compositions must have been on Arthur Russell
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Cabin Essence (Session Highlights And Stereo Backing Track)
YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic
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4 months ago
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Why do the titles for this hyper-dramatic Schama TV series look like an early 2000s trance record?
4 months ago
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RIP to a real one
5 months ago
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We put on a poetry reading and raised £1k for Palestinian solidarity groups
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stop motion skeleton
5 months ago
he looks like he's gonna do it again
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Is Larry still happy?
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5 months ago
Ed Luker on Caspar Heinemann's show at Studio Voltaire, London. A show I really need to see. Caspar was always good & it will be great to see what form the art now takes. I haven't seen any since his degree show and am very curious about this area of material investigation.
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wrote about Caspar Heinemann’s ‘Sod All’ at Studio Voltaire for Plinth
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RIVET presents Poetry Jamboree! Sunday 25th May — with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Rashed Aqrabawi, Rosie Stockton, Robert Kiely, Casper Kelly, Caitlin Hall, and James Goodwin 🌞 🧊 Click the link and buy a ticket 🍉
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RIVET presents: Poetry Jamboree (for Palestine)
A bank holiday Poetry Jamboree for Palestine – get in the lyric sunshine
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rivet-presents-poetry-jamboree-for-palestine-tickets-1333702924349?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios
6 months ago
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Friend just described this as “lockdown 5 year anniversary weather“ 💀 ☠️ ⚔️ ✋🏻
7 months ago
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Issue 2 of new film magazine Monochromator is shaping up to be a sharp one — and there’ll be an essay in there from me.
monochromatormagazine.com
7 months ago
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I log in to Bluesky like an ageing hustler remembering the good old days. Taking a drag on my cigarette, I reminisce about my 2.5k Twitter followers, the past 10k+ likes, all the ease of days gone, and walk back out the door.
8 months ago
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huge “we’re gonna make it” vibes with the London sunshine today after a week of pure grey — people look near delirious
8 months ago
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Kat Lister
9 months ago
Derek Jarman was writing this in 1989. Swap the clothes shops for American candy stores and Wingstops and how much of this has changed – and that line: “How can you describe what has been lost to those who’ve never known different?”
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Massive W for Andrea Long Chu
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you also would’ve thought the fascists were losers in 1934 too — the point is a fundamentally cynical and mistrustful culture makes it hard to build solidarity
9 months ago
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quite beautiful, in an era where earnestness is hard to do, that lots of the tributes are “David Lynch taught me that it was okay to be weird.”
9 months ago
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A.I. could never reproduce the feeling of a David Lynch movie
9 months ago
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Something very Lynchian about David Lynch dying from a smoking related illness in the immediate aftermath of wildfires in his Californian landscape. There’s an analogy, smoke / fire, a symbolic shape, but no firm correlation — a kind of poetic thought.
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undead girlfriend
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Nick Covington
9 months ago
Oh...
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went to BFI to see Visconti’s Ludwig and everyone booed the only advert before, shouting “rubbish” at James Cameron talking about the magic of cinema 🤣
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9 months ago
"The poet listens intently, tries to bring the future closer while carrying the voices of the lost and martyred with her." loved this by Luke Roberts on the poet Anna Gréki's Algeria, Capital: Algiers in
@newleftreview.bsky.social
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Luke Roberts, Broken Voices — Sidecar
On Anna Gréki.
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/broken-voices
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10 months ago
Powerful front page from L'Humanité on Jean Marie Le Pen: 'His Profession Was Hatred'. The dagger pictured was recovered at the scene of the brutal torture and murder of Ahmed Moulay in Algiers in 1957. One of multiple pieces of evidence showing Le Pen was a torturer.
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I’ve just realised that Burroughs’s title is intended to also be read NUKED LAUNCH:
10 months ago
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the vibes are off in the state of Denmark
10 months ago
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I love these first two weeks of the year where everything feels possible before we crash and burn into the habituated shackles of ourselves
10 months ago
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Th0rnenotes
10 months ago
Beautiful series of reflections on the past year put together by
@edluker.bsky.social
. Really enjoying reading these.
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Clearing the Decks — Part I
Eleven perceptions from the year 2024.
https://belowdeck.substack.com/p/clearing-the-decks-part-i
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10 months ago
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put together a fascinating group of varied insights from the year past as a way out of individualised blogging -- by Danny Hayward, Daisy Lafarge, James Vincent and others
belowdeck.substack.com
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Rose Anne Gush and Danny Hayward on the repression of Palestinian solidarity in Austria for Jacobin
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How Austrian Liberals Silenced Pro-Palestinians
If German public debate is infamous for its pro-Israel dogmas, the situation is as bad in Austria. While the far-right Freedom Party is now normalized, pro-Palestinians are silenced in the name of “an...
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/austria-liberals-pro-palestine-antisemitism
10 months ago
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The way I thought this was a collection of verse by Larry David
10 months ago
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Eros, stupidity, spectacle — it’s a tragi-comic shame that Gary Indiana died just a few weeks before the most high profile American murder case of this decade
11 months ago
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Luigi from Fiji looks like if Todd Haynes dreamed up a lone shooter
11 months ago
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the Mike Kelley at Tate Modern is so rich, absorbing and hilarious. He was very serious about stupidity, and rightly so.
11 months ago
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I’m starting a new political party.
11 months ago
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If you haven’t already read it, here’s my essay on the late Gary Indiana, one of the best novelists of the American Empire
effects-journal.com/archive/empi...
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EMPIRE STATE OF MIND
An obituary of novelist and critic Gary Indiana by Ed Luker
https://effects-journal.com/archive/empire-state-of-mind
11 months ago
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Spotify Wrapped — the musical equivalent of the police presenting you with a list of what pornography you’ve watched.
11 months ago
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On the absurdity of memoir — from Gary Indiana’s introduction to Pierre Guyotat’s Coma
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tell me about a brilliant and weird book you read recently. I feel like I want to get into authors I don’t know. something freaky and dark
11 months ago
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I can barely bring myself to post here but, hello, that other site is like falling into a nazi aquarium
11 months ago
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What if something bad has already happened? 🕳️ For Plinth Magazine, I reviewed the Nicole Eiseman show at Whitechapel Gallery (and still had more to say than I could fit in to the piece).
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The Faces in the Back
Nicole Eisenman at Whitechapel Gallery
https://plinth.uk.com/blogs/magazine/nicole-eisenman-whitechapel
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