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Rose McLaren is an artist in London.



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Talk Into My Bullet Hole

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July 2015

Rose McLaren

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July 2015

‘Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?’ ‘Oh, I don’t...

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May 2014

Art Does Not Know a Beyond: On Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rose McLaren

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May 2014

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has an oddly medieval form: a cycle, composed of six auto-biographical books about the...

In simple terms, the process of combustion creates energy that is converted into motion The ignition by the spark plug of the admixture of fuel and compressed air forces the piston down This energy is used to rotate the propeller shaft that runs the length of the vehicle to the differential which shifts the power ninety degrees, turning the rear axle which in turn turns the wheels Back in the engine, the crankshaft, via the connecting rod, brings the piston up again for another intake of air and fuel, allowing the process to be repeated It is repeated hundreds of times per minute This is the four-stroke combustion cycle, the invention of Nikolaus Otto Otto was a German inventor He grew up on a farm in the Rhineland-Pfalz region and served an apprenticeship in commerce He abandoned his career in business in order to pursue his interest in gas engine design It is a common misconception that Otto received the Grand Prix at the International Exposition of 1867 in Paris for his four stroke engine It is true that Otto and his partner Eugen Langen were indeed awarded the Grand Prix by Napoleon III at the 1867 International Exposition, and that the Exposition was in Paris, but it was for the earlier atmospheric gas engine that ignited fuel without compressed air Among the many who visited the Exposition was Jules Verne, who drew some of the inspiration for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea from the demonstrations of electricity on display there Perhaps if Otto had invented his four stroke engine in time for the International Exposition of 1867 in Paris it might have captured Verne’s imagination instead, though it is possible that cross-country driving may not have held the same mystique for readers of nineteenth-century science fiction as underwater travel Nevertheless, Otto’s machine was impressive for its time and Verne would have been at least mildly interested, if not as taken with it as Napoleon III Though more efficient than the Otto and Langen engine, itself an improvement on Étienne Lenoir’s 1858 design, the early versions of the

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August 2014

Rose McLaren

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August 2014

Rose McLaren is an artist in London.

The Prosaic Sublime of Béla Tarr

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Issue No. 6

Rose McLaren

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Issue No. 6

I have to recognise it’s cosmical; the shit is cosmical. It’s not just social, it’s not just ontological, it’s really huge. And that’s why we...
Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

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February 2012

Rose McLaren

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February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer half way through Zona. Such...

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February 2015

In bed with the radio

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TR. Mark Baczoni

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February 2015

IN BED WITH THE RADIO   You’d turned against me. There’s safety in knowing, I thought. Like lying in...

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August 2013

The Ghosts of Place

Dylan Trigg

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August 2013

 ‘So I turned around for an instant to look at what my field of vision onto the sea had...

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January 2013

Interview with Kalle Lasn

Huw Lemmey

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January 2013

Reinventing a political culture is a difficult task to set oneself; political aesthetics develop alongside political movements, and tracing...

 

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