Simon Critchley

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‘Happiness is a feeling that comes from being told that we’re doing okay’
How the hipster came to haunt modern culture

When David Bowie died last year, we lost a figure who, perhaps more than anyone else, thrived on being self-conscious. For Bowie, identity was not a f(...)

Simon Critchley argues: “If life is a gift from God, then God must allow for the possibility of suicide as the rejection of that gift”
Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley review: a good argument for not killing yourself
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  • February 25, 2016, 12:01

“This book is not a suicide note,” Simon Critchley writes in the first sentence of his short, profound study of self-killing. An academic philosopher (...)

The Closing of Mystical Anarchism by Clodagh Emoe. Photograph: Sean Breithaupt
Sleepwalkers: Artistic experiments in biting the hand that feeds

Institutional critique has been a significant strand of contemporary art practice since the 1960s. There’s an element of biting the hand that feeds(...)

David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Ever the absolute beginner: Bowie, by Simon Critchley
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  • October 18, 2014, 10:00

For the proto-punks and New Romantics-in-waiting, David Bowie’s 1972 appearance on Top of the Pops, performing Starman in full Ziggy Stardust regalia,(...)