Title: intermittently interesting
Product review: This collection of "transmissions from the edge of style culture" is intermittently interesting, depending on one's personal interests, level of interest in cultural studies and tolerance for semi-academic jargon. Beard's pieces are mostly republished from various style mags (mostly i-D and Arena) he wrote for over the course of the '90s. For me, he's probably at his best extolling various sci-fi writers like William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, or J. G. Ballard or specific topics as opposed to the pieces where he's making broader assertions or bringing together bits and pieces of his vast reading. Likely to appeal to a fairly limited audience.
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