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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

reboosting for those who missed it (pub date of the collection reviewed is TOMORROW)

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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"Cool precision broken up with all-black pools of ink, dramatic silhouettes, faces lit white in noir lighting, flows of impenetrable troubled evil." 4Columns takes a close look at Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories by Jaime Hernandez--out Tuesday! ow.ly/uXrl50YqxIp

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Hey* comics people! Go read @dubdobdee.bsky.social unpacking the many layers of Locas and the lives it contains 4columns.org/sinker-mark/... *(all together now) Hay’s for horses, ass bite!

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Locas: The Maggie & Hopey Stories

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

here's my love & rockets review (xaime mix) for 4columns 4columns.org/sinker-mark/...

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Locas: The Maggie & Hopey Stories

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/12/2025

‘Looking at the billboard, we don’t understand what we face: is it a gothic ironist’s forbidden craft or the malevolent bludge of a context-collapse machine?’ Mark Sinker (@hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social) on Kingston upon Thames’s divisive AI mural, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

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Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch

Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/12/2025

‘Was this a commercial art blunder, lazily unpoliced, or an art prank, bad by trolling design? “There’s clearly something political about it,” the manager of a local restaurant said, “but nobody knows what it is.”‘ @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social on an unsettling mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

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Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch

Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 05/12/2025

‘Was the mural in Kingston ever meant to be looked at carefully, even? Or was it a bogus inkblot test intended to be misread in multiple ways?’ Mark Sinker on a disturbing festive mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

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Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch

Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 04/12/2025

‘Imagine a whole army wading ashore at you through the snowmelt, writhing fused limbs and non-Euclidean torsos, every zoomed-in detail a hideous AI patchwork. The chicken-dogs were even worse.’ Mark Sinker on Kingston upon Thames’s festive AI mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

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Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch

Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...

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👻🎃🦇 blud-blob-blee 🦇🎃👻 @dubdobdee.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

rolling stones day: these lads were all p silly ppl* but the noise they made is good not bad *(maybe not charlie RIP)

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👻🎃🦇 blud-blob-blee 🦇🎃👻 @dubdobdee.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

many happy returns @djpunctum.bsky.social !! ppl shd all be reading all your BLOGS: nobilliards.blogspot.com/2025/01/depe... uncorrectedboundproof.blogspot.com funthirty.blogspot.com (this is only some of them!)

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DEPECHE MODE: Ultra

(#569: 26 April 1997, 1 week) Track listing: Barrel Of A Gun/The Love Thieves/Home/It's No Good/Uselink/Useless/Sister Of Night/Jazz Thie...

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

the 1976 bbc horror series BEASTS: specifically this episode (= "Baby") (@bat020.bsky.social posted this image on twitter last year and the hairs on my arms stood up in shock-memory)

a young lady in a green jumper and green and white flowered pinafore dress (she is prgnant tho yuou cant quite tell from this short) ginerely holds an ugly brown bony something that looks just-dug-up (earth adheres to its crevices and crannies). in the background is an old-looking british farm (with modernised elements but also a wooden cartwheel) and two men looking at her from a doorway

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

toying with the notion of blocking no one at all on this my professional thread -- like those guys in CHERNOBYL (2019) who open a door and find themselves straight into the blue hellish heart of the core meltdown what happened to those guys? it wasnt good! they literally melted themselves!

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 16/11/2022

i wrote about twitter for the LRB (where i've also written about nigel kennedy and the beano, so a pattern is surely emerging) www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/november/go…

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Mark Sinker | Goblins’R’Us

In Revolution in the Head, his otherwise loving guide to ...

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 28/10/2022

Hallo @thamesandhudson, I emailed your press office about a book I am meant to be reviewing -- but have had no response yet. Name as per this account, DM me if that's easier. Thank you! x ms

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 25/06/2021

rip alan lewis: at the time i was no fan of where he took nme (long story for another day) but respect to a great editor at a string of titles from 70s-90s: for the book i interviewed him about black music magazine (and with hindsight shd also have quizzed him more abt kerrang)

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 17/06/2021

My first piece for 4Columns (on the Alice show at the V&A); retweeting before it leaves the front-page: 4columns.org

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4Columns

4Columns arts criticism weekly.

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 01/04/2021

hi @royalmailhelp -- i am trying to locate a parcel that arrived at heathrow from the US that has gone missing: i have a USPS tracking number but all USPS seem to know is that it was picked up at heathrow on 8 feb

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 30/01/2021

As a big thanks for excellent help and good (disinterested!) advice supplied when my laptop was in a parlous state last summer, may I recommend x.com/ApplecoreServs applecoreservices.com for all yr mac needs

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 12/01/2021

my guardian piece on culture present and future, and where the machines are taking us: if you like it please retweet and subscribe to my Patreon...

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 07/12/2020

new patreon entry: abut where it's been and where's it going www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-is-ba…

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 28/08/2019

It's been a while but here's the newest pod: in which @HSouthwellFE and @dubdobdee discuss @JonSavage1966's excellent chapter in the book, abt 60s teen beat mags and LSD: www.patreon.com/posts/take-drugs-ki…

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 30/07/2019

sad news abt andy gill and an upcoming ian penman collection reminded me how unmissable nme's silver screen film and TV section was in the early 80s, so i wrote about it (subs only for now: remember if you subscribe you help pay me to write more...

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 09/05/2019

A reminder that by supporting this patreon you help support mark sinker's writing! So please do so if you can afford to :) www.patreon.com/marksink3r/posts

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creating a history of the uk music press

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 30/03/2019

Another book event: @owenhatherley will be asking me (=@dubdobdee) testing questions about topics arising at @HousmansBooks this coming Wed (3 April). Details here: buff.ly/2PnQwRM

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 17/02/2019

pod no. 7 unlocked! (but plz subscribe to the patreon all the same) it's @HSouthwellFE and me @dubdobdee talking abt music-writing (and motorsport) and money, a ticklish subject that will never not be important this side of the revolution...

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 12/02/2019

we're back! @HSouthwellFE and @dubdobdee talk the precarities of music-writing (and motorsport) then and now: a nice long catch-up patreon podcast (subscription only) about what matters more than where the money's coming from: www.patreon.com/posts/why-do-we-do-…

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 02/02/2019

v nice review by rupert loydell of hidden landscapes in IT online (an proud if uncapped print ancestor of which is discussed in said book): internationaltimes.it/always-about-…

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‘Always about ideas’ | IT

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 18/01/2019

the book has been available in some places since early december, the official publication date is 7 feb, last night was the official launch, i don't make the rules ppl

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 22/12/2018

I've been sending people to MIT to order my book -- i.e. the distributors -- but I think for the next couple of weeks you'll get hold of it quciker via the publishers: strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/a-hid… it is in some shops already! hunt around :)

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A Hidden Landscape Once A Week - Strange Attractor

148mm x 210mm PB 392pp £15.99More →

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 07/12/2018

The book is out! Or anyway exists in book form, fingers x-ed in UK bookshops before xmas so hurry hurry hurry! or pre-purchase here: mitpress.mit.edu/books/hidden-lands…

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A Hidden Landscape Once a Week

An anthology of conversations and essays, memories and co...

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 01/12/2018

the book is out any day now and here's a little piece by @dubdobdee to explain what's in it www.citypages.com/music/when-the-br…

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