This week my guest, Elliot, chose The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Apocalyptic tunes abound.By Textual Feelings

This week's book is Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem. I play some Beatles, some Ravi Shankar, some Randy Newman and much more. Have a listen!By Textual Feelings

Last week's show! The book was East West Street by Phillipe Sands. A heavy but interesting episode with my flatmate, Pete. We play music written during or inspired by genocides and their aftermaths.By Textual Feelings

In this episode we discuss Paul B. Preciado’s 'Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era', a wild mixture of theory and self-experimentaion. Some talking points include queer sex writing, the disturbing and racialized history of the pill, and how we can come to understand the mechanisms of the Pharmacopornographic era…

In this episode we discuss the political drive of Rankine’s poetry, the repetition of the TV screen, and what she’s doing with the subtitle, ‘An American Lyric’.By Rosie Haward and Matilda Hemming

Last month Textual Feelings was invited to participate in The Library Talks, a series of lectures held at the library of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Institute. Each talk revolves around a selection of books made by the speaker, assembled out of the library’s current collection as well as newly purchased books for the occasion.In our t…