On the Journal of Psychick Albion
: “Cormac Pentecost’s latest issue of the Temporal Boundary Newsletter chimed with me in many ways. …”
Blogposts tagged as “Acid Communism”
Acid Renaissance as we approach the end of 2023
Silbury Hill, Avebury - photograph by the author
: “A post by web developer Jeremy Keith (who, by coincidence, is also based in Brighton & Hove) came up in my RSS feeds today entitled After the end. …”
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The Duellist
Previously unpublished shot of The Duellist, part of the Acid Renaissance series, by the author.
: “The Duellist — of which I’ve published two versions: The Duellist (1) and The Duellist (2) — has been hanging around the inside of my head for a few months now, maybe longer. …”
Acid Renaissance and surrealism
Previously unpublished shot from the series Study of a Figure in the Court of Queen Mab, part of the Acid Renaissance series, by the author.
: “As I continue with the final preparation for my Saints & Martyrs artwork (which I wrote about back in August), most of my thoughts have been about surrealism. …”
Radical futures re-emerging in mainstream science fiction
Scene from the final episode of Andor season 1. Source: Disney+
: “I’ve mentioned here before that back in the 1970s and 1980s there seemed to be a myriad of ideas about potential future societies in popular (mainstream/children’s television) science fiction: …”
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Capitalist Realism and British Rail flying saucers
Plans for nuclear fusion powered flying saucer by British Rail - Patent No. GB1310990A
: “In 1973 British Rail, Britain’s then nationalised railway service (which for the youngsters was, despite the contemporary 1970s jokes about British Rail sandwiches, far better than the privatised…”
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Interviewed by Callum Sutherland
Dr Callum Sutherland (left) and myself (right)
: “Back on 19th November 2021 I was interviewed over Zoom by Dr Callum Sutherland (pictured above, on the left) as part of his research. …”
Stargazy on Zummerdown
: “Update: August 2024 - There is now a copy of Stargazy on Zummerdown on the Internet Archive which is now embedded above. …”
Imagining a more Utopian future
Bacchanalia Beneath the Wind Turbines, by the author
: “I’ve written about imagining progressive alternative futures here before, mainly as ways of breaking out of the chains of capitalist realism (most are tagged as Mark Fisher and/or Acid Communism if…”
Acid Communism; Acid Renaissance
Bacchanalia Beneath the Wind Turbines, by the author
: “I’m a visual artist, so this brief piece about Mark Fisher’s draft introduction to his planned book Acid Communism (sadly never to be realised due to his premature death) examines the concept from…”
Albion: utopianism and the post-apocalyptic pastoral
Part of the cover to the book Albion by Brenda Vale
: “The problem with modern democracy is that it has thoroughly convinced everyone that you only get one chance to improve society every five years. …”
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Post-apocalyptic pastoral and post-industrial
Photograph by the author
: “I’ve lifted the term “post-apocalyptic pastoral” from a book review by Goodreads user Terry from Toronto who effectively seeded my reading list by citing Richard Jefferies’ After London: or,…”
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The Psychedelic Gothic in Acid Renaissance
Previously unpublished photograph from the Keeper of the Archives shoot, by the author
: “In a recent blogpost Ellen Rogers wrote of her current Gnosis project: …”
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A Multitude of Futures
: “I’m starting to see more people talking about the need to imagine the future, which is both fantastic and absolutely necessary. …”
Acid Renaissance: update 3
: “Back in the 1970s there seemed to be such a myriad of ideas about potential shared futures, exploring all aspects of the political, social, and cultural. The aim of neoliberal capitalism of the 1980s…”
Acid Renaissance: Albion’s True Standard Advanced
: “I have, of late, been wittering on about radical visions of the future. It started in November with No one dreams of England’s future any more, and then The Ghosts of Christmas Futures which was…”
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The Ghosts of Christmas Futures
Two sketches of figures by the author
: “2018 has been my most financially successful year as an artist, primarily due to my England's Dark Dreaming book (fewer than 75 copies left at time of writing!). However when I say my most financially…”
No one dreams of England’s future any more
Still from Quatermass TV series
: “No one seems to dream of England’s future any more, just its imagined past. When the post-modernists proclaimed (again) “the end of history” what they should have been announcing, in England at…”
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