Internet “bookmarks” or “favourites” have – along with iPod playlists and eBay auctions – become contemporary character attributes replacing star signs, favourite colours and taste in clothes. These new self-signifiers are much more exact than the old ones and much more easily shared. At the same time, they are more random and capricious. They may change daily and they may simply be the result of idle browsing. This is, of course, in the post-modern context, fair enough. Who believes in stable selves any more? Anyway, here are some links. I will not explain them and, it goes without saying, they are not “self”-explanatory.
Emmylou Harris - www.emmylou.net
Nick Cohen - www.nickcohen.net
Roger Scruton - www.rogerscruton.com
Gordon Smith - www.thepsychicbarber.co.uk
New York - www.overheardinnewyork.com
Manchester City - www.mcfc.co.uk
Michael Burleigh - www.michaelburleigh.com
Captain Beefheart - www.beefheart.com
Bob Dylan - www.bobdylan.com
Jon Ronson - www.jonronson.com
Will Alsop - www.alsoparchitects.com
Anthony O’Hear - www.buckingham.ac.uk/publicity/dofe/ohear.html
John Gray - www.lse.ac.uk/people/j.gray@lse.ac.uk
John Ashbery - www.johnashbery.com
Wallace Stevens - www.wallacestevens.com
James Lovelock - www.ecolo.org/lovelock
Nick Cave - www.nick-cave.com
Bernard Jacobson - www.jacobsongallery.com
Andrei Tarkovsky - www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com
Samuel Beckett - www.themodernword.com/beckett
Jorge Luis Borges - www.themodernword.com/borges
Vladimir Nabokov - www.randomhouse.com/features/nabokov
George Walden - www.newstatesman.com/writers/George_Walden
Frank O’Hara - www.frankohara.com
Lesley Chamberlain - www.lesleychamberlain.co.uk