Ansgar Allen

The Unteachable – Situations – Educated People – Jonathan Martin – Midden Hill – The Faces of Pluto – Black Vellum – The Wake and the Manuscript – Plague Theatre – Burton’s Anatomy – The Reading Room – The Reaches – The Sick List – Wretch – Cynicism – The Cynical Educator – Education and Philosphy – Benign Violence

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“Allen re-ignites Beckett, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Orwell, Kafka, Burroughs, Conrad and Nietzsche. At the same time, Allen is none of those writers. There seems to be far more interest in losing the ego in order to make a piece of effective work. It’s quite art school, actually. In terms of critical theory, what is happening can trigger a multitude of thinkers: Freud, Derrida, Marx, Lyotard, Foucault, Agamben. Simultaneously, it feels unaligned. It is philosophy or critical theory as strategic art.“

^{Steve hanson}