Category Archives: Cafe

TOWARDS AN UNKNOWN REGION:A POST/ASLANT-COVID (AUTO)NARRATIVE(CONTD).AND ALL-ABOUT-DATING…BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on May 9, 2020 by decayetude

“Next morning, all geography lay snowbound”(Leif Enger, Peace like a River”) “Flotsam from the city’s shipwreck” (“Bookshops, Carrion, 2013) I am also-citationally-indebted to the opening sentence of Bernhard “Concrete”(1982); whilst I am not (currently) writing a biography of Felix Mendelssohn(though … Continue reading →

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WHAT WAS,(WHAT IS) AND WHAT WILL BE.THE STRANGE (HALF)RE-BIRTH OF THE FABRIC DISTRICT, LIVERPOOL.PHOTO-POST. BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on June 8, 2019 by decayetude

Will this be a living tomb before it even starts? Will it blossom? Will it be another Baltic Triangle?; strangled in market forces Will it be a dummy; or real?   GOOD LUCK: the attempted RENAISSANCE of the Fabric District … Continue reading →

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TWO YOUNG MEN TOGETHER SITTING. BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on May 23, 2018 by decayetude

{Hommage to Walt Whitman, celebrant of male beauty} Two Young Men Together Sitting. Green top, Orange pumps.   Good Eye Contact; Probably “Just Friends” (But you Never Know!).   Conversing with Phones and Each Other   Glimpsed Moments.   Am … Continue reading →

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HOTEL:WHAT IS IT? A FREE EXTEMPORIZATION. BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on January 12, 2018 by decayetude

CATALYST: WAYNE KOESTENBAUM: HOTEL THEORY(2007) Hotel liminal Hotel du Lac Hotel de la Spinster Hotel Brookner. Anita Brookner’s protagonists LIVE in hotels; women (occasionally men) of “private means”, they can afford to, economically that is. Psychologically, they inhabit the inner (psychogeographically … Continue reading →

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THE CLUB AND THE CLOAKROOM ATTENDANT. A SHORT STORY/MEMOIR.BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on January 3, 2018 by decayetude

He cycled, wearily,  towards the Club, unaware/undiagnosed. He felt like willpower(alone) was forcing the pedals around. (One night he just could not hack it, and sat in a surreal subtopian McDonalds near Ancoats, throwing a sickie; the carapace of the … Continue reading →

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CORNWALL RAMBLINGS(PART 3):ENTRAPMENT AND FREEDOM. BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on October 18, 2017 by decayetude

Yes, I remember Liskeard, The land of lost content, For, on an October day, The branch train Terminated there Wontedly. Bad hommages (or postmodern collages?:P) aside:-it is, again, a day of porous time boundaries: 2005/2006??. Somewhere around then… THEN… and … Continue reading →

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BOOKSHOP STORIES.PART 2. RE-INVENTION. A MEDITATION. BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on April 20, 2017 by decayetude

And so I repaired(being the word), once more, to the newly re-invented, struggling treasure-trove of a bookshop (with café:)). It wasn’t term time but the café was twentyfold busier than its host bookshop. It had become a weekly joy(tinged with … Continue reading →

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CREATING MY OWN SPRING.PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY IN ACTION! BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on March 12, 2017 by decayetude

As winter edges towards spring,I inhabit a liminal place/space, a queer(quirky, self-created, counter-hegemonic) SAFE space, an oasis; today, it is in Blackwell’s impoverished, slowly declining (but, temporarily, re-invented) new little University bookshop. Amidst. and athwart, the quotidian distress and fear of … Continue reading →

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TOWARDS UTOPIA???????????????LINKS:BIENNIAL(S), BREXIT, CORBYN; or NON-LINKS AND FEAR/OTHERING.A GRUESOME PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on July 14, 2016 by decayetude

“The sadness inspired by failing restaurants”. “The smell of mildew in movie theaters” (both from Eugenides, “Middlesex”, 2002) Lewis’s little balcony restaurant(dying gradually, now 6 years gone).https://decayetude.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/img_13071.jpg  .The ABC Cinema, Lime Street:re-used for a spectral exhibition in a previous biennial; and … Continue reading →

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“EVERYTHING BECKONS US TO PERCEIVE IT”(RILKE). CURATING MY OWN BIENNIAL, CONTINUED.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on July 25, 2014 by decayetude

 

Posted in art, Barthes, Biennial 2014, Birth of reader, Cafe, camp, Death of Author, life mirrors art, Phenomenology, psychogeography, Quirky captures, Re-envisionning, Uncategorized, Utopia, working outside hegemonies | 3 Comments