In the Guardian article, Drummond encourages a search for Neoism in your browser.  However, Search for Neoism and Drummond and you come accross pages like...
 
http://www.sapienza.it/magam/inglese/library/murnau.html
 
 
and this, read further down regarding the cow being slaughtered etc.  Probably old news to you all ...
 
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/listservs/spoons/invisible-college-digest.archive/v01.n050