The question is: what is culture for? Is it a vanity mirror for liberal society to see itself reflected back in the way it wants to see itself? Or is it something else, something more disruptive? I think culture should disrupt; it should be troublesome. If it's a mirror, it should be the cracked one that Joyce talks about; or Lewis Carroll's one that opens up on huge abysses; or the mirror in Jean Cocteau's Orphée, where you look in to it and you don't see yourself reflected back, instead you see the void – you see death at work, "like bees in a hive of glass". Fucking great line.
interview with Lee Rourke and Tom McCarthy at The Guardian.
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