Mike Pinnington 🍉
@doublenegativem.bsky.social
Writer | Editor | Art Criticism | Exhibition Interpretation | Class | Science Fiction | Popular Culture | PhD student | Lecturer | Lapsed runner
https://mikepinnington.cargo.site/
https://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/
https://mikepinnington.cargo.site/
https://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/
Was planning to do some Christmas shopping today, but I forgot that that can be horrible - particularly on a Saturday after payday. So, a pint and a read it is.
November 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Was planning to do some Christmas shopping today, but I forgot that that can be horrible - particularly on a Saturday after payday. So, a pint and a read it is.
Remnants, traces, lapping water and birdsong on my walk into town today. File under the city and the city; and city as time travel.
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Remnants, traces, lapping water and birdsong on my walk into town today. File under the city and the city; and city as time travel.
A new portal appeared...
November 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A new portal appeared...
Something needs to happen in Pluribus, huh? I get that it's a character study, but give me Body Snatchers - either Don Siegel's or Philip Kaufman's Invasion of - every time.
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Something needs to happen in Pluribus, huh? I get that it's a character study, but give me Body Snatchers - either Don Siegel's or Philip Kaufman's Invasion of - every time.
Now reading: Colson Whitehead's Zone One
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Now reading: Colson Whitehead's Zone One
Goodnight 🐾
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Goodnight 🐾
No writing done today. V tired after tutorials on both Monday and Tuesday. Hopefully I'll get down to it tomorrow and make some more progress ✍️
#research #writing #writingthecity #culturalcartography
#research #writing #writingthecity #culturalcartography
November 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
No writing done today. V tired after tutorials on both Monday and Tuesday. Hopefully I'll get down to it tomorrow and make some more progress ✍️
#research #writing #writingthecity #culturalcartography
#research #writing #writingthecity #culturalcartography
Subscribed once more to bfi player - largely to watch Terence Davies' Of Time and the City again for something. But, having cancelled mubi a while back, it's going to be nice to have a dedicated film streaming platform again 🎬
November 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Subscribed once more to bfi player - largely to watch Terence Davies' Of Time and the City again for something. But, having cancelled mubi a while back, it's going to be nice to have a dedicated film streaming platform again 🎬
Cities variously play the role of ruin (post-war, post-industrial and otherwise), film set and canvas, frequently simultaneously, either by default or design ▶️🎬
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Cities variously play the role of ruin (post-war, post-industrial and otherwise), film set and canvas, frequently simultaneously, either by default or design ▶️🎬
Young also wrote the foreword to Richard Cabut's Ripped Backsides, which I heartily enjoyed:
The City & the City: Ripped Backsides
🏙️🌁🗽🏢
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/07/the-...
The City & the City: Ripped Backsides
🏙️🌁🗽🏢
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/07/the-...
November 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Young also wrote the foreword to Richard Cabut's Ripped Backsides, which I heartily enjoyed:
The City & the City: Ripped Backsides
🏙️🌁🗽🏢
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/07/the-...
The City & the City: Ripped Backsides
🏙️🌁🗽🏢
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/07/the-...
Sacred & Profane: on Jeff Young's Haunted Paper ⏳✍️
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
November 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Sacred & Profane: on Jeff Young's Haunted Paper ⏳✍️
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sacr...
Simulacra and the City:
Stephen Clarke’s New York 1995–1996 🗽📷🎞️
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/simu...
Stephen Clarke’s New York 1995–1996 🗽📷🎞️
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/simu...
November 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Simulacra and the City:
Stephen Clarke’s New York 1995–1996 🗽📷🎞️
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/simu...
Stephen Clarke’s New York 1995–1996 🗽📷🎞️
www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/simu...
Here's my review of her previous outing, an adaptation of Brian Catling's Earwig >>>
The Double Negative » “Strange and Frequently Disturbing” Earwig – Reviewed share.google/GU6p9A1ZJXBJ...
The Double Negative » “Strange and Frequently Disturbing” Earwig – Reviewed share.google/GU6p9A1ZJXBJ...
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Here's my review of her previous outing, an adaptation of Brian Catling's Earwig >>>
The Double Negative » “Strange and Frequently Disturbing” Earwig – Reviewed share.google/GU6p9A1ZJXBJ...
The Double Negative » “Strange and Frequently Disturbing” Earwig – Reviewed share.google/GU6p9A1ZJXBJ...
Very much looking forward to watching @asifkapadia.bsky.social's Kenny Dalglish doc. A fitting director (Maradona, Senna) to take on the story of our greatest ever player 🎬⚽
November 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Very much looking forward to watching @asifkapadia.bsky.social's Kenny Dalglish doc. A fitting director (Maradona, Senna) to take on the story of our greatest ever player 🎬⚽
Personally speaking, as someone with a long, and relatively complex relationship with Tate Liverpool, its closure since 2023 is beginning to take its toll - as a punter, a critic, and user of the city generally.
November 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Personally speaking, as someone with a long, and relatively complex relationship with Tate Liverpool, its closure since 2023 is beginning to take its toll - as a punter, a critic, and user of the city generally.
What happens, in psychogeographic terms, when a space with significant gravitational pull is removed - even if temporarily - from a city?
November 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
What happens, in psychogeographic terms, when a space with significant gravitational pull is removed - even if temporarily - from a city?
Are these works utopian failures, ruptures in the quotidian, or something else?
November 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Are these works utopian failures, ruptures in the quotidian, or something else?
A door to nowhere. Or no place?
November 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
A door to nowhere. Or no place?
Some Keywords:
Cultural; footprint; mapping; city; cities; urban; palimpsest; traces; excavation; flaneur/euse; psychogeography; deep topography; hauntology; Liverpool
Cultural; footprint; mapping; city; cities; urban; palimpsest; traces; excavation; flaneur/euse; psychogeography; deep topography; hauntology; Liverpool
November 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Some Keywords:
Cultural; footprint; mapping; city; cities; urban; palimpsest; traces; excavation; flaneur/euse; psychogeography; deep topography; hauntology; Liverpool
Cultural; footprint; mapping; city; cities; urban; palimpsest; traces; excavation; flaneur/euse; psychogeography; deep topography; hauntology; Liverpool
Gorgeous exhibition of abstract paintings, open from today at the Bridewell, Liverpool 🟦🎨✍️
Words coming soon >>>
Words coming soon >>>
October 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Gorgeous exhibition of abstract paintings, open from today at the Bridewell, Liverpool 🟦🎨✍️
Words coming soon >>>
Words coming soon >>>
Turner is the kind of big name show Liverpool has lacked of late and includes some really great work from others. Pictured here: Maggi Hambling; Bridget Riley; Emma Stibbon; Wilhelmina Barns Graham
October 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Turner is the kind of big name show Liverpool has lacked of late and includes some really great work from others. Pictured here: Maggi Hambling; Bridget Riley; Emma Stibbon; Wilhelmina Barns Graham
Kinda forgot that Pictures Generation artist Robert Longo directed Johnny Mnemonic. Explains Keanu's suit and tie I guess.
ROBERT LONGO, Men in the Cities share.google/LUGpqA6bgQ9X...
ROBERT LONGO, Men in the Cities share.google/LUGpqA6bgQ9X...
October 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Kinda forgot that Pictures Generation artist Robert Longo directed Johnny Mnemonic. Explains Keanu's suit and tie I guess.
ROBERT LONGO, Men in the Cities share.google/LUGpqA6bgQ9X...
ROBERT LONGO, Men in the Cities share.google/LUGpqA6bgQ9X...
At open eye gallery in Liverpool this evening for the launch of @thenerve.news. All power to new left-leaning publications ✍️📰🗞️
September 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
At open eye gallery in Liverpool this evening for the launch of @thenerve.news. All power to new left-leaning publications ✍️📰🗞️