Wilfred has done a nice intro piece on Psychogeography at the social fiction blog. (Friday, May 09, 2003). It’s for the psy geo conflux festival in NYC. “Psychogeography is a practise as old as human civilazation itself. In the 14th century the Italian humanist poet Petrach climbed the Mont Ventoux for no other reason then …
And indeed, continuing the theme of pamphleteering/the end of zine culture, there are some fine texts at Revolt Against an Age of Plenty. Would be good to have an overview, (so correct me if I’m wrong) but I guess it’s fair to say it’s part of the UK post-situ, BM Blob, No War But The …
“What harm can a book do that costs a hundred crowns? Twenty volumes of anything will never make a revolution – it is the little pocket pamphlets that they should fear.” – Voltaire (1694 – 1778) After the mass destruction of zine culture in favour of the morass of online information, some hardcore paper fetishists …
I don’t know much about Stereolab, but it’s interesting to see that Laetitia Sadier has named her solo project Socialisme ou Barbarie after the french left communist group and is name checking Cornelius Castoriadis (aka Paul Cardan, arguably their leading light, although ‘the cult of celebrity’ is supposed to go against the grain of such …
At last, the Wu Ming Foundation’s novel “Q” is being published in english by Random House. I have been looking forwards to this for ages. Wu-Ming is a collective of people from Italy who used to be involved in the Luther Blissett Project. Their website has just been updated and is well worth checking. You …
Comrade Neil Starman is now blogging, which is excellent news. Two entries so far on the intersections between David Beckham, Guy Debord, old testament mythology and the war. This should be one to watch, definitely check it if you have enjoyed the Practical History or Red Giant sites (and if you haven’t seen them, they …
BBC 1Xtra has removed several songs and comments from a selection by German Soundsystem Roots Commandment. The show has been heavily “edited” because the BBC feels that tunes like Bob Marley’s War and others might offend the British Public. The irony of this is that the same station was taken to task last year for …
Nice index of downloadable anti-war music, which was brough to my attention by Mick Sleeper of upsetter.net: “The radio station that I DJ at has put together a quick page of links leading to anti-war MP3s from a variety of artists (Billy Bragg, Public Enemy, Paula Cole). Links are given for the “local” file (ie: …