I’ve recently read Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. It was a bestselling title on Amazon in 2017, a fact attributed to Trump’s election. But as the book makes clear totalitarian politics has no single or clear origin. No one …
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Operation Black Antler Project
I’m currently researching identity and the far right for a project I’ll (hopefully) be starting soon on Blast Theory and Hydrocracker’s piece ‘Operation Black Antler‘. I just finished ‘The Road to Somewhere’ by David Goodhart and am now …
Imagine…
Imagine browsing a bookshelf in a library or bookshop.
Now imagine a performace that browsed the world looking for audiences. It scans the shelves for peoplebooks, glancing at titlefaces.
Occasionally, an attractive fontface makes it stop.
Picking up the peoplebook, …
This body
Reading an extract of Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School, we stand around the room looking at Janey’s dream map.
We put the body of text on a mortuary slab and exhume it’s remains to make a …
Reflections on the Stories of Solitude: Performance, Technology and Digital Overload Conference
This post was originally published on the CityLIS blog
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This event was part of York Mediale, a new UK festival bringing together artists and technologist. Part celebration, part investigation, part space to question the ethical, social, political, economic and …