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Conor Carville @cdcarv

Prof. at Reading University, home of Beckett's archive. Co-Director SBRC. Beckett & the Visual Arts (CUP, 2018). Host of 'Beckett &' podcast. research.reading.ac.uk/beckett/ Wimbledon, London. Joined September 2013
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→ @john__gerrard shares the book that changed him Art Basel published an article on July 8, 2026 featuring four artists with current exhibitions on the books that shaped them most, and what they're reading this summer. Among them was artist, john gerrard. Gerrard named Manuel DeLanda's War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991) as the book that most changed his thinking. He arrived at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford in 1994 at age 20 and found the book in his second year. DeLanda traces the history of war and technology in the years after the Gulf War, when Gerrard says power became abstract and cognitive structure began transferring from humans to machines. Gerrard had watched the Gulf War on television in his boarding school common room as a teenager, which he says primed him to think about violence and technology before he encountered the book. He credits it with introducing him to criticality and shaping his practice since, particularly his focus on society viewed through computing. His original copy is still on his bookshelf. For summer reading, Gerrard is revisiting Marvin Minsky's The Society of Mind (1986) in the studio, and rereading Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) on the beach. His exhibition SPIRITS is on view online at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through December 21, 2026. (1-Portrait of John Gerrard by Lance Gerber. 2- Manuel DeLanda, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, 1991.)

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3 months ago

J. H. Prynne RIP. Es Lebe der König (1971) - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=k_vS_c…

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6 months ago

RIP Béla Tarr theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/…

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7 months ago

SPIRITS is a year-long artwork designed to be experienced on your mobile browser. Irish artist john gerrard collected 96 plastic sandals and shoes from beaches across the world, each one carrying unknown stories of the people who wore them.

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7 months ago

LACMA | Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Check out our former Beckett Fellow John Gerrard’s immensely powerful ‘Spirits’ at LACMA lacma.org

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7 months ago

SPIRITS (Pacific)#1 begins the Winter Solstice takeover of lacma.org now at midnight PST. Every hour, one of 24 found plastic ocean shoes & sandals, captured as gaussian splats, rendered in webgl in the browser & overlaid by public touch with representations of light, gasoline, psychedelics, oceans, climate heating, fire and finally void. A generative audio score accompanies the piece. Credits + interaction guide below and more information on lacma.org/art/exhibition…

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7 months ago

SPIRITS (Pacific)#3 continues the @john__gerrard takeover of lacma.org on Winter Solstice 2025. One significant ghost in the machine of SPIRITS is @JeffKoons Inflatable Flower and Bunny of 1979 which in time morphed into Rabbit, 1986 which became of the most expensive artworks sold by a living artist at $91.1 million in May 2019. There plastic becomes hyper value, here plastic resides on the earth as a permanent record of the 20th century oil age - which in a sense is where both works: Rabbit and SPIRITS meet. @LACMA #SPIRITS

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7 months ago

SPIRITS (Pacific) #2 continues its 24 hour Winter Solstice takeover of lacma.org, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art frontpage & for today - a global public art gallery. The first of four interventions on key solar dates ending Dec 21 2026. This found plastic ocean sandal says - DO IT. More details and links to earlier takeovers also on lacma.org/art/exhibition…

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9 months ago

Lovely interview with Claire-Louise Bennett by @edelcoffey in @IrishTimesBooks – touching on exploring the Samuel Beckett archives. You can read Bennett's creative response to Beckett in Tolka Issue Seven.

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9 months ago

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025 | Nobel prize in literature | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2025/oct…

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11 months ago

@AhlamAlshihry Congratulations again!

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Ahlam Faiz Alshihry, PhD @AhlamAlshihry

11 months ago

After what feels like forever (and a few too many 'nearly finished' moments), I’m happy to say that today I’ve passed my viva! 🎉 Huge thanks to everyone who supported me along the way. Now, I can finally say it’s finished... well, almost! 😅

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11 months ago

@matdryhurst Yoshitomo Nara

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a year ago

Krapp’s Last Tape review – Gary Oldman’s arresting one-man Beckett is a startling piece of theatre theguardian.com/stage/2025/apr…

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5 years ago

'He goggled like a fool at the shrieking paullo-post-Expression of the Last Supper hanging on the wall fornenst him, livid in the restless yellow light, its thirteen flattened flagrant egg-heads gathered round the tempter and his sop and the traitor and his purse.' 2/6

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a year ago

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a year ago

Khalidi: "We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet, where on the orders of an authoritarian government, ideas and books were banned, students were expelled and arrested, departments were taken over, and faculty and staff fired." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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a year ago

It's Bay Day! Series 5 starts tonight on ITV at 9pm, with eps 2 and 3 on Monday and Tuesday and eps 4 to 6 next week. What an honour to work with this amazing cast and crew.

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a year ago

@JoBakerWriter is one of the contributors to this Observer piece about favourite Austen characters. theguardian.com/books/2025/feb…

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a year ago

How dare The Guardian use AI to generate a John Banville review. He must be fuming. theguardian.com/books/2025/feb…

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