“Anti-social behavior – the new lycanthropy The concept of Society had been getting into trouble for some time, then late one evening – as the shadows lengthened across the playing fields – Society vanished on her way home. The police couldn’t find her, neither alive nor dead (but Society had always got on their nerves). …
Germany and France have been spoilt rotten for decent reggae mags for years, and we’ve had to put up with the odd half column in dance mags or Steve Barker’s one page in The Wire every month. No longer! http://www.riddim-mag.com The first english language issue of Riddim is just out and is £3.50 with a …
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you’ll have noticed me ripping off and bigging up Paul Petard’s artwork, text and cartoons. The latter especially should be familiar to most readers of anrcho-commie UK zines over the last 10 years. His latest little booklet is now out (I found it in Housmans in …
I got nominated for the book meme by Merrick back on May 1st. But I had to hang about with it a bit whilst I actually read some books. And fought an election. And did up my bathroom. And stuff. You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be? Probably Green Eggs …
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A BIG BLACK FIST STRIKES A BLOW HEARD ‘ROUND THE WORLD’. “Diamond-hard… Relentless… The heaviest mother in town is on the prowl again … Equal parts of guts, wits and power… John Shaft whips it on the international underworld in a jewel of a caper, as wift, violent and unpredictable as any he’s ever known!” …
54 – A Novel by Wu Ming, i.e. the Luther Blissetts who wrote “Q”. Published by William Heinemann on the 5th May. ’54 plays with the forms of espionage novel, the noir genre, and social realism. It seeks to transcend those forms, and it does: this is mutant fiction, a living narrative organism composed of …
I’m always slightly stunned when I see the Morning Star on the shelf in my local newsagents. Whatever you think of the politics, a daily communist newspaper for the UK is kind of impressive. I mainly avoid it like the plague, not wanting to read about the ins and outs of trade union bureaucrats and …
“Capitalism produces disasters almost as quickly as it produces commodities. […] “What do we mean by disasters? We could say that capitalism itself is an ongoing disaster for humans and the environment, measured not just in death and destruction but in the lost potential of life subordinated to the rhythms of capital. But to narrow …
For the present exhibition at t1+2 Artspace the novelist, filmmaker, critic, musician and performance artist Stewart Home has brought together the results of his own researches into his mother’s mysterious death in 1979 with the work of the photographer and video artist Chris Dorley-Brown. t1+2 artspace 4 Steward Street London E1 07903876522