Virginia Woolf ‘Three Guineas’ quote

Belle D’Opium

Some might think this bad taste. I think its a hoot, and bad taste. A commercial sell-out I’d missed – Nitin Sawhney, Romain Gavras (who also did the MIA vid I am writing about) Mélanie Thierry working together on a Yves Saint Laurent advert with dodgy choreography by Akram Khan. My thanks to Dr Royona Mitra for [...]

Early November Education Demos.

So that’s the first half of November pretty much sorted: . National School and FE Student Walkout and Demonstration Location: Houses of Parliament Time: Friday, 04 November 2011 06:00 . . student march on 5 November | Jarrow March 2011 jarrowmarch11.com . . National Demo – Defend Education, Fight Privatisation Location: London Time: Wednesday, 09 November 2011 03:00 . [...]

Hanging Channel

a draft for a round table discussion on television studies for the journal ‘South Asian History and Culture’ needs a bit more work…      Beyond television studies. The Kitchen Debate. The whole world is twitching and the study of television is in the final throes of a long generic isolation, becoming a fully integrated [...]

Learn to Like It – ALP Bureaucracy-Pig Nation

Graduate School, Uni of Melbourne 1990 – Chris

Learn to Like IT Bob Hawke

Free Gaza Meeting

Freedom Flotillas 1 and 2 Public meeting Wednesday, 27 July, 2011 @ 20:00, Churchill room, London House,Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, WC1N 2AB Speakers and topics: Audrey Bomse: The Legality of the Blockade on Gaza from an international legal perspective; Adie Mormech: The humanitarian situation in Gaza Strip Ewa Jasiewicz: The Freedom Flotilla and its Impact [...]

Crusader – white supremacy in Norway

Breivik is identified as a self-declared ‘anti-Muslim crusader’ with a 1500 word [sorry page!] manifesto and links to the English Defense League.[i] That the terrorist self-styles as crusader is no surprise, but again media attention focuses upon the lone-wolf, rogue element, and individuation so as to engender control, in the same way that the manufacturing [...]

A couple of things to do or see, read, shout, turnabout…do the hokey… you know you wanna

. Things to do in London if you are not yet dead. All mentioned at the Bradford 12 Commemoration on Saturday. March 4 Justice 4 Demetre Fraser: London, August 13th  http://t.co/QogyZUv . . Vedanta versus the Villagers ankeholst.com tweetmeme_url = ‘http://ankeholst.com/2009/10/1​7/vedanta-versus-the-villagers​/‘;tweetmeme_source = ‘the_anke’;This week I met a lot of interesting people again. One of them [...]

Samsung news roundup

http://www.ethicalconsumer.org​/CorporateNews/StoryoftheDay/t​abid/1598/EntryId/738/Samsung-​company-sacks-trade-union-lead​er.aspx Story of the Day Index – Samsung company sacks trade union leader www.ethicalconsumer.org Ethical Consumer Corporate News index ________________________ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2​004/01/15/samsung_waves_goodby​e/ Samsung waves goodbye to 425 Teessiders • The Register www.theregister.co.uk Samsung is shutting down its computer monitor factory in Teesside with the loss of 425 jobs. The plant also makes microwave ovens. It shuts in April. [...]

Learn To Like It, by Chris, circa 1991

My Favourite Zippy

Pig Nation

One of the first of the Learn To Like It series, circa 1989 I think.

Learn To Like It, circa 1995

UTS students association diary 1994

the inside back cover

Learn to Like it – archival 1990 – [click to enlarge]

   

Kane Redux: ‘Alone in his never-finished, already decaying pleasure palace, aloof, seldom visited…

What I figure is that pushing the analysis beyond the farrago of an imploding media empire is also an urgent task. Its not like we’ve never been here before: ‘Alone in his never-finished, already decaying pleasure palace, aloof, seldom visited, never photographed, an emperor of news print continued to direct his failing empire, varyingly attempted [...]

Bougainvile: riotinto’s atrocities

The Australian, 16 July 2011 (warning, this is a Murdoch paper! references to Hitler and Chinese colonialism also to be taken under advisement). Battle intensifies over Bougainville copper Rowan Callick, Asia-Pacific editor From: The Australian Bougainville rebels guard the Panguna mine site in 1996. Picture: Ben Bohane Source: The Australian CLAIMS that Rio Tinto funded the civil war [...]

Re-post: review of Where there is Light, 2004

Since today in Bradford there is the 30 years commemoration of the struggles around the case of the Bradford 12, and next saturday (23rd July 2011) a similar event in London (see here), I repost this review of ‘Where there is Light’, a novel by one of the perpetrators – an appreciation of the quietly [...]