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Fan-led preservation practices: remastering The Ricky Gervais Show

“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” John Gilmore I’m part of a small but enduring community of online weirdos centred around The Ricky Gervais Show, a comedy programme hosted by Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and producer Karl Pilkington on and off between 2001 and 2010. My own engagement with the show… Continue reading

3 July 2023

Beavis & Butthead, Capitalism, Comedy, Daria, Fandom, Karl Pilkington, Podcasting, Preservation, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Art and (in)accessibility

Love this piece in Overland, by Kieran Stevenson, noting the grotesque irony of Julian Rosefeldt’s Euphoria — a purportedly anti-capitalist screed of a film — playing at Melbourne’s bougie marquee arts festival RISING. The worst part of the show’s marketing isn’t encountered until after you decide to leave—attendees must exit through the gift shop, where… Continue reading

28 June 2023

Capitalism, Mark Fisher, RISING