read some more work

From Heather Morrison, some useful links: The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine searches over 30 million documents (most are free to download): http://www.base-search.net/about/en/ If you don’t find a free copy, consider asking the author to make their work openly available through an open access archive. In my experience, authors appreciate hearing about this interest in their [...]

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 [...]

ORGS.

` A chit chat tonight with a comrade – now a note to self for later: ` Seems some people have had a hard time seeing democratic centralism and meeting procedure as anything like fun. :) ` I was a peripheral participant in a thing called Open Polemic long ago. I think that is the [...]

The £100 Pound Shop

Trinketization is clearly escalating over the river in Dalston, and I can’t say I disapprove. I have said before: Shopping is civil war. Here is evidence. But then, its choice, so do head out to support this venture where you can (perhaps by shoplifiting?) Point your browser here: http://www.onehundredpoundshop.com/our_promise_to_you.html (thanks to Joel McKim for discovering [...]

H G Wells on Money

In the marvellous “Love and MR Lewisham”, the occultist swindler Chaffery offers Lewisham this commentary on money: What is clothing? The concealment of essential facts. What is decorum? Suppression! … to the common civilized man the universal exchangeability of … gold is a sacred and fundamental fact. Think of it! Why should it be? There isn’t a why! [...]

Indian curry powder – theory of translation

I am first of all against translation as it is mad, its impossible, it cannot ever be true to origins, its a kind of violence, it is always political, it transforms, it is creative, it is heroic to try, it is the essence of communicability, it is exchange, it disrupts parochialism, it is the foundation [...]