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David Black
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Newcastle, The United Kingdom
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George Orwell, Raya Dunayevskaya, Gillian Rose, Philip K Dick,
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September 2019
King Mob and the Situationist International
A Presentation at Whitechapel Gallery 12 October 2024 for the London Anarchist Bookfair. Plus an interview with the speaker, David Black: Q and A with Thomas Holland. Good morning. My name is David Black and I run a shoestring publishing operation called BPC, which stands for the Barbarism of Pure Culture, inspired by the words … Continue reading "King Mob and the Situationist International"
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LSD UNDERGROUND: Operation Julie, the Microdot Gang and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love (Psychedelic History):
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Every now and then a chill blows in the wind and pushes us backwards in time and as i write this war is on the brink but certainly these old hippies were against war and represented an indigenous purity to be desired … " Read more of this review » |
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In History Today, January 2022, four historians were asked: When did Britain come closest to Revolution? Katrina Navickas, giving the most recent example - 179 years ago - wrote: ‘The year most likely to result in a revolutionary moment was 1839. Bre ...more |
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King Mob: The Negation and Transcendence of Art: Malevich, Schwitters, Hirst, Banksy, Mayakovsky, Situationists, Tatlin, Fluxus, Black Mask (WiseEbooks)
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| Ernst Jones (1819-69) was born and educated in Germany, the son of a British Army Major who was equerry to the Duke of Cumberland, afterwards King of Hanover. When his family returned to England in 1838 Jones became (in the following order) a barrist ...more | |
“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.”
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“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
The Psychedelic Reading Group
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A reading group for those interested in non-fiction texts relating to psychedelic compounds, as well as cognitive phenomena associated with these. Tex ...more
