'A masterpiece of world cinema'

"In Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism, the German thinker put forward one of the great ideas of modern socio-political theory, namely that all of the essential elements needed for the rise of a totalitarian state exist and lie latent in Western, democratic society. "Lying under anybody’s nose were many of the elements which, gathered together, could create a totalitarian government on the basis of racism," Arendt wrote in 1951. Michael Haneke's newest film The White Ribbon begins with voice-over from a key character in the movie which brings Arendt's thesis to mind..." READ full review at PLEASURE.

TRACK OF THE MOMENT: The Magic, Hecuba (2009)

OK so that last Hecuba track I liked was called 'Suffering', which is not the most endearing of titles. But 'The Magic'--and its accompanying video which premiered weeks ago on the DazedDigital website is really tickling me at the moment.

'The experience of the one of a kind is profound'

"What is my art about? It recently has gone through a very noticeable shift and I'm not sure about it yet. It's become extremely autobiographical in the last patch. It started when I was making a couple pieces for my boyfriend and my parents where it was extremely clever work, but the audience was me and three other people; there was something exciting about that..."

--Ceramic artist Adam Williams gives an interview for PLEASURE ahead of his annual pottery sale this weekend.

'I stumbled into dance'

"Art is presenting the familiar in an unfamiliar way"--Dancer Dave Williams in an interview for PLEASURE's random interview series.

Painter Embah on taking a cutass and calling it George

"I am painting because art is my measuring tape. I can measure what I did all my life. It's about what I did with my lifetime. To me, art was like discovering myself, like discovering freedom. You can't reverse that decision. Any attempt to reverse that is going to destroy you so I stayed with it"--Trinidadian painter Embah says in an interview for PLEASURE today. It's the second of a random series of interviews that began last week.