Leonard Rossiter’s Ontology of Grot
An eccentric new book, ‘Code:Damp: An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms’, frames the sitcom career of British actor Leonard Rossiter as a conductor of strange energies unlocking the secrets of post-war Britain.
4 Articles by:
Dominic Fox
Dominic Fox is a programmer, musician and writer. He is the author of Cold World – the Aesthetics of Dejection and the Politics of Militant Dysphoria, and a book of poetry, Half Cocks.
I Was a Teenage Derridean
A new biography of the French philosopher reveals a core of political seriousness in his work. But why was he so popular in the universities of the 1980s and 1990s?
Trying To Fix My Introduction
Barney Farmer’s novel Coketown builds on his work on Viz classics like Drunken Bakers to create a comic horror update of Dickens’ Hard Times.
Bring Me The Head Of Light Entertainment
Alan Partridge hasn’t just returned to the BBC – he is the BBC.