More on the bees, and Avatar
Really? Heh heh. From the Bee Movie: And from Avatar: Nothing if not populist. Who said kids wouldn’t pour over this speech for years to come? Course they…
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Marx in Algiers again
Of haircuts and Rhino coats… This is the worked up text of a talk I gave in Chandernagore in February 2016. The photo is one I’ve failed to trace…
News sites at first blush
Listing is not necessarily endorsement. Please add to this. . http://www.wsws.org/ . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Standard . http://llco.org/study/ . http://strangetimes.lastsuperpo…
Brand PhD. #gnnnngg
Can’t imagine the mad thinking behind this branding. In several ways a sign of the downward spiral. Or, a niche marketing gambit. What next: administrative razor blades, higher…
New Book by Jay Murphy on Antonin Artaud
This is it – Jay Murphy’s book is out. Use the pavement site because postage is included… Artaud’s Metamorphosis: From Hieroglyphs to Bodies without Organs by Jay Murphy…
Hutnyk
Tracking down the old man’s arrival records from Europe to Australia. He was a violent drunken shit, but I do appreciate at least his refrain about how we…
Artaud’s Metamorphosis: From Hieroglyphs to Bodies without Organs
A great new book from Pavement Books: by Jay Murphy £18.99 (inc. postage) ISBN: 978-0-9571470-9-6 Despite being one of the most influential artists and writers of the mid-20th…
De Quincey’s first time. Works 2, p43
A pleasure indirectly paid for, as were his studies at Oxford, with profits from the East India Company opium trade via both his uncle Preston and his benefactor,…
Prison Abolition Syllabus
(This very impressive reading list from the USA compounds). ((Such scholarship needs to be replicated for other places. And start with the prison support stuff)) http://www.aaihs.org/prison-abolition-…
Fan on
This Read here.Filed under: Spivak
maoistroad: Stop Operation Green Hunt! MalkaNGIRI & Bhopal
“Why are some lives cheaper than others? Looking at the brutal extra-judicial killings in Malkangiri and Bhopal In the last few weeks, two brutal killings sent shockwaves through…
Alliances not self promotion. Bataille would already have joined
Dear comrades on my news feed, Am sure you probably already will have seen this but I’m sending it out in place of any comment about either Trimp…
Get Heartfield.
Got to get this: Buy hereFiled under: historical, politics
“First Strike”
First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state Taking an insider’s…
GRIL – Stoler “Duress”
A glitch in child sleeping patterns, and unemployment, means I’ve had a lot more time to think (and rethink) and of late get to read. So much so,…
Zombiiiiieeees Aiiiiiiiiii
Another volume on the horror that keeps giving (accounts of capital and how bad it is – figure people gonna wake up and do owt? Not holding my…
Once Within Borders
Another book to get, this one on borders – gonna review it: Read More here: Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories—politically bounded regions whose…
Marx Eco Critique
Looking forward to reading this next year (not looking forward to paying 29 bucks – is this the save tries pricing? And is it an eco gamble to fix…
Captured: Documenting Incarceration | Nottingham Contemporary
Captured: Documenting Incarceration. Events – Talks Captured Documenting Incarceration 04 Nov 2016 – 05 Nov 2016 A two-day documentary film event featuring screenings,…
Class / segmentation / racialization. Notes – Lucha No Feik Club
If the working-class has always been segmented, we must then contextualize this segmentation, which is to say we must situate it within the general form of the contradiction…
Trinketization gets a museum treatment…
HKW | Sharon Macdonald, Tony Bennett & Arjun Appadurai – THING http://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_128503.php © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum, Martin F…
Begging Wars: Nottingham Police’s dodgy Prince tribute
update 1 October 2016 – banned by the advertising standards agency. Took long enough, and only 4 out of 5 of them were banned, dunno what the other…
Immigration Corbyn
How does JC superstar reconcile this week? Is it that he is crafting soundbites for different audiences (or as preparation for conference did he finally read ch 25…
Winston
War criminal notes. Someone scratched out his eyes. Apparently when the note is wet and rubbed with a coin, the ink comes off. Still legal tender – money…