
Watch
, in UK cinemas from 26 July, stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon as George Westinghouse in a story about the 19th-century race to electrify the US.

Read
of Immortality: Remaking life and death in contemporary Russia by Anya Bernstein (Princeton University Press) explores the lively present and deep past of some futuristic Russian research.
Sean Lynch, A murmur, repeated, 2018-19. Video Still. Courtesy Ronchini, London
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, repeated opens at the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton on 20 July. Lynch’s delirious installation imagines the reactions of a 17th-century poet to a world of mobile phones, plastic and identikit motels.…



