Bacchanalia Beneath the Wind Turbines, by the author
: “Back in July I wrote a post here called The futility of constructing a better past & the necessity of imagining a better future, the essence of which was a rant against (what seems to be) an…”
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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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…”
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. …”
: “Update: August 2024 - There is now a copy of Stargazy on Zummerdown on the Internet Archive which is now embedded above. …”
: “Yesterday was St Swithin’s Day and it hasn’t rained for days. …”
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…”
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…”
Detail from Study of a Figure in the Court of Queen Mab (1)
: “My original plan was a very large scale, multi-figure, drawing of the Court of Queen Mab, but I simply don’t have the room - I’d need a large studio space to attempt something like that. So…”
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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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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