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Contemporary, independent arts & culture criticism since 2011 💫 posts by co-founders Mike & Laura
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Cultural; footprint; mapping; city; cities; urban; palimpsest; traces; excavation; flaneur/euse; psychogeography; deep topography; hauntology; Liverpool
November 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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People in the know: What's a decent, cheap, entry level film camera please? Emphasis on decent and cheap!

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October 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is celebrations and unveilings for the recent reopening of The Harris, Preston👏

In keeping, here's John Fulleylove's 1877 painting, Opening of the Walker Art Gallery (the same year) 🏛️
October 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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"I’m an emptied-out thing, scrambling forward without any sense of reason... I’m trapped in this nightmare, this flesh palace."

From the archive, read short body horror story, The Window, by @doublenegativel.bsky.social www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2021/06/john...

📷 Li Qing, The Window, 2018
October 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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At open eye gallery in Liverpool this evening for the launch of @thenerve.news. All power to new left-leaning publications ✍️📰🗞️
September 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Back teaching and also a few thousand words into a PhD. Very torn about putting our website, The Double Negative, on hiatus - or not. We launched in 2011. It's been v important for both of us (my partner is cofounder). Part of the weekend will maybe be spent trying to come to a decision.
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September 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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A couple of very nice exhibitions close this week. I reviewed ALL THAT REMAINS: A Curator’s Choice @victoriagallery.bsky.social (until 20 September): www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/all-...
September 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Hi! We've been on a much needed break, but thought we'd pop in to exclaim that it's the final weekend for Liverpool Biennial 2025! We've written a few words around this edition. A good place to start is with CJ Fagan's My Life in the Biennial with Ghosts: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/my-l...
September 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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From second city of the empire to cultural regeneration: the complex evolution of place

📷 Parker Greenwood, The Port of Liverpool (1892); Atkinson Grimshaw, Liverpool Quay by Moonlight (1887); LS Lowry, The Liver Building, Liverpool (1959); Tate Liverpool site under construction, Albert Dock (1988)
September 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Call for book proposals!

Are you passionate about punk? 🤘
Do you have an idea for a book? 📖
Send us your idea for a fresh take on punk to mark the 50th anniversary, that could be the next instalment our acclaimed British Pop Archive series. 🎶
More details below 👇 #booksky #punk
September 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Ursula Le Guin nominated by Kate Stables share.google/Mi56NKB0WLa5...
BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Ursula Le Guin nominated by Kate Stables
Musician Kate Stables highlights the fascinating life of author Ursula le Guin.
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September 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Learning to Talk Painting
Exploring Residency Models and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Contemporary Painting
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September 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Top 10 photography documentaries | The Independent Photographer
Over the years, filmmakers, writers, and directors have focused their attention on those fascinating and often enigmatic individuals who have helped shape the very foundations of photography as we kno...
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August 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Bleak, magical - and it's no overstatement to say - prophetic, Tarkovsky's Stalker is showing in Liverpool next week. So, this morning's listening:

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Landmark: Tarkovsky's Stalker share.google/IQws6Z0WqIAq...
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Landmark: Tarkovsky's Stalker
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker.
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August 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Hit me up with your favourite contemporary/recent female poets. I have a list but keen to discover some I may not know! #BookSky
August 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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🛠️✨ DoES Liverpool Open Day – Sat 30th Aug ✨🛠️
Come explore, make, and celebrate creativity with us!

SewTaylorMade Designs is run by Liz Taylor and uses gorgeous Japanese fabrics to create bags and accessories such as bookmarks, glass cases and purses.

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Sashiko-embroidered patches, scissors and multicoloured sashiko thread against a background of sashiko-embroidered cloth A sashiko-embroidered drawstring bag with scissors and red sashiko thread, against a background of sashiko-embroidered cloths
August 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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A little reminder for everyone, particularly our friends in the Labour government:
August 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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This morning's listen 👂🐾

BBC Radio 4 - Sideways, 77. Crazy Cat Lady share.google/GHwNwrPHl2bY...
BBC Radio 4 - Sideways, 77. Crazy Cat Lady
Why does a childless woman with cats cause such cultural panic? Matthew Syed investigates.
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August 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Is the Magic 8Ball sentient? We asked the Magic 8Ball, the company that are raking it in from the toy & the players who are using it rather than going to therapy.

An LLM is a predictive algorithm that replicates the most common or likely response. It's like asking if a fruit machine is suffering.
Guardian headline: Can Als suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times. Image is of a white person's face covered or consumed by a visualisation of a data network.
August 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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The British Science Festival 2025 #BSF25 programme is now live!

We’re partnering this year with @liverpooluni.bsky.social and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social.

Join us from 10-14 Sept for 4 days of over 100 FREE events in #Liverpool.

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July 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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We're enjoying some time off. Listening to @lauracummingart.bsky.social's Speed of Light this morning

📷 BBC Radio 4 - Speed of Light by Laura Cumming share.google/TvhBpJmGasGZ...
BBC Radio 4 - Speed of Light by Laura Cumming
Laura Cumming explores a 19th-century technological revolution in photography.
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August 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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BBC One - imagine..., Winter 2014, Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future share.google/rb02uvGGNmMz...
BBC One - imagine..., Winter 2014, Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
Anselm Kiefer in frank interviews as he prepares for a retrospective at the Royal Academy.
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August 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The Double Negative is taking a few days off. Brb...
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August 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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What have you been watching lately? Here's our last four @letterboxd.social 🎬 #thinkfilm

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TheDoubleNegtve uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 281 films watched. Favorites: Rear Window (1954), Don't Look Now (1973), La Jetée (1962), A Matter of Life and Death (1946).
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August 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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We were @victoriagallery.bsky.social yday for an irl opening of online exhibition Brian Aldiss and the Natural World. Grt to hear readings from and to speak to Aldiss' daughter, Wendy.

Brian Aldiss and the Natural World - University of Liverpool Digital Heritage Lab share.google/dnKgL5HjwD6H...
August 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM