Bushranger Bay

Still reading Gayatri Spivak’s new book, An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization. Its difficult, but actually great. I think her argument is somehow (anyhow) to keep working at the patient effortful non-coercive project of education for epistemic change and rearrangement of individual desire (careerism) towards a collective responsibility (planetary perspective), where the wealth of productive capacity [...]

No Olympics

this one was made by the Nomadic Action Group for the campaign against having the olympics in Melbourne in 1988 To which (via Simon S) we can now add some London related resources: Anarchist alternative art for the Olympics…. http://anarchistmedia.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/the-lympic-games-olympics-2012/ Report backs on a ‘Countering Olympics’ conference held recently…. http://counterolympics.com/ I guess Occupy Olympics was [...]

#goldsmirk

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003200589474 Goldsmiths Occupiers say: ‘We are an open heterogeneous group including Goldsmiths staff, students and many others who believe the university is a public resource that should be open to all. We stand with all those affected by the privatisation agenda and against those who profit from its misery. Goldsmiths is now occupied in solidarity with the [...]

Treasure trove of Phamperletts…

A treasure trove (nicked from Chris at 56a):   http://kmfreepress.wordpress.com/ has some paginated ready to print PDFS on all sorts of things: Allegory Ruin Crisis Communisation: Bring Out Your Dead Crisis and Consciousness: Lessons and Reflections from California March 4th Critique of Call Cultural Revolution – Lotta Continua Deleuze, Marx and Politics Evacuate The Leftist Bunker For An Analysis of Autonomia From The Aesthetics [...]

New Term – just like the old term in the neoliberal university – Red Mole 1970 – flashback with this archival gem.

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welcome to the administration – learn to like it circa 1989

Learn to Like It – ALP Bureaucracy-Pig Nation

Graduate School, Uni of Melbourne 1990 – Chris

Learn to Like IT Bob Hawke

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]

   

National Instruments

On the initiative of Moinak Biswas, Film Studies Jadavpur Uni, Kolkata, and with great input from Rosalind Morris, but initially inspired by the Preservation in Globalization workshop convened by Gayatri Spivak and Jorge Otero-Pailos, an interesting redevelopment seems possible. A disused factory site adjacent the Jadavpur campus was toured by our group in early December. A documentation of the [...]

Visiting Faraway: an installation by Geoff Weary at the Art Gallery of NSW

This one is really from the Vault. It was printed in the Melbourne art magazine Agenda, in about 1989 or so. The totally irrelevant picture I have chosen to illustrate this is not of Weary’s art, but since Man City beat the Gunners 4-1 yesterday I thought it amusing that when I searched ‘weary’ this picture turned [...]

Learn To Like It – archival 1990 ……………. . [click to enlarge]

Snd-ctrl 1995 – more from the vault

The Revolutionary Structure of Sound: experimental musings. Most popular music could hardly be described as revolutionary in the old (and still urgent) sense, yet to dismiss musical production and its associated pleasures as irrelevant to revolution would make for exceedingly dull practice. Most contemporary musicians, and even or perhaps especially those who claim to be [...]

Silence on Music and Politics. (thoughts to add to the word hoard)

Silence: on Music and Politics. thoughts to add to the word hoard, and for a Royal Holloway Talk given on thursday about Hip Hop in Europe, focussing on repetitions and the refusal of Paul Simon to give Fun^da^mental clearance to sample his Sounds of Silence track, while he of course made himself into Mr World [...]