Dead Air
by Iain Banks · first published 2001
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…a group calling for a non-violent boycott of Israel. I have a hard imagining how you can paint everybody who supports them as antisemitic. If you want a shortcut into his politics, I suggest you read Dead Air.
on “Iain Banks dies of cancer aged 59” ↗…country". It's orthogonal to one's feelings wrt Belgian nationals. Unless you think Stephen Hawking, another BDS supporter, dons a balaclava at night to beat up his kippa-bearing neighbours. I have read Dead Air. And it's pretty easy to understand why he would be pissed off at Blair. If your country was headed by a compulsive liar, whose lies had brought your country in a protracted, costly, pointless war, you'd…
on “Iain Banks dies of cancer aged 59” ↗…references or is inspired by modern events. The novel is as much an instrument of contemporary social commentary as much as it is anything and to ignore this is to confuse the entire subject. Books like Dead Air by Ian Banks, or Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, are simply not available in earlier eras as their narrative reference points did not yet exist. It is like looking for something in the golden…
on “Culture is not about esthetics (2011)” ↗