WE have the annual irritation of New Labour's party conference this week - Manchester streets are sealed off, police patrol in vast numbers, helicoptors hover overhead night and day. On the first day on which the sun seems to have shone all year, it was great to see the End the Wars Demonstration roll into town.
September 20, 2008
Peace Demo
WE have the annual irritation of New Labour's party conference this week - Manchester streets are sealed off, police patrol in vast numbers, helicoptors hover overhead night and day. On the first day on which the sun seems to have shone all year, it was great to see the End the Wars Demonstration roll into town.
Genius
Finally, I have finished ‘Genius’, my socialist riposte/rewriting of Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos. I’ve blogged previously about my reasoning f...
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Back in 2005, I launched the International Text Festival in Bury, Manchester. It's aim was to question, curate, display, distribute, ar...
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Don’t get me wrong, Byung-Chul Han’s ‘The Burnout Society’ is an insightful and trenchant analysis of “the systemic violence inhabiting ...
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As already featured in the anniversary post on 19 March, the field of action of first festival was contextualised with the ‘Text’ (ISBN 0 9...