Month Notes, October 2025
The Hastings Borough Bonfire Society’s Torchlit Procession, October 2025. Photograph by the author.
: “This weekend just past was the Hastings Borough Bonfire Society’s torchlit procession. …”
Blogposts tagged as “Anarchism”
Prefiguration
: “Back in 2020 I was discussing the out-of-print novel Albion by Brenda Vale and musing on what I’d taken from it, and I wrote: …”
Digital Worlds and Gardens
Photograph taken by the author.
: “Back in August I wrote about a lot of online advice for artists is framed around the trappings of corporate capitalism, and my deep-felt aversion to the call to adopt these trappings in the…”
Standalone but interconnected, independent but not isolated
Vauxhall Bridge over the river Thames, with Aquarius House, St George Wharf, London. Photograph by the author.
: “This is a bit of a ramble, but bear with me. …”
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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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Anarchism in Speculative Fiction
: “One of my first Mastodon posts was a request: …”
Decentralised Networks
: “The recent change of ownership of Twitter is making a small but growing number of people think about their future on social media, and on the internet in general. …”
Stargazy on Zummerdown
: “Update: August 2024 - There is now a copy of Stargazy on Zummerdown on the Internet Archive which is now embedded above. …”
Crafting Utopias with Ursula
: “Yesterday was St Swithin’s Day and it hasn’t rained for days. …”
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…”
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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