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Isle of Dog – Canary Wharf is a place where the new form of labor becomes dramatically evident – the workers have indeed left the factory, or in this case – the docks, and the managerial and office class of the cognitariat has literally taken their place. This process is made visible in the centrifugal social/class [...]
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The Dockers, Canary Wharf Casino, Animal Spirits and the Tunnel
Posted: February 21, 2012 by casualagent in Counter-Mapping, The Political, The Tunnel, Uncategorized1
Blake escapes from Scrubs
Posted: January 24, 2012 by project47convenors in The Political, The PrisonIn 1961 George Blake was convicted of treason and espionage and was handed down a 42 year prison sentence, to be served out in H. M. Prison Wormwood Scrubs. In 1966 Blake escaped from Scrubs with the aid of the KGB and defected to Moscow. As a space of incarceration the prison is society’s [...]
Anti-fascist prisoners: send letters for Xmas
Posted: December 20, 2011 by jamesrrellison in Events, The Political, The Prison, The StadiumBeing locked up is grim at the best of times, being locked up over Christmas, away from friends and family, is always going to be an especially difficult time, so we urge all decent anarchists and radicals to send a letter, messages of support, of just a few lines to the five anti-fascist prisoners still [...]
Iran Objects to ‘Racist’ London 2012 Olympics Logo
Posted: December 13, 2011 by nimaes in The Museum, The PoliticalTags: The Olympics
I’ve found an article about Iran’s National Olympic Committee who claims that London’s olympic logo spells out “Zion.” Actually, this obsession of “looking awry” has become a tradition. I remember the same claim against ‘Coca-Cola’ logo: one may spells out the arabic words consisting the message: “Neither Mohammed, Nor Mecca” by looking the english logo-type [...]
Olympic police (re)action figure
Posted: December 13, 2011 by jamesrrellison in The Museum, The PoliticalTags: olympics
Here is an interesting image I found and the blog link it originates from. Dan Hancox blog
Museum = Prison by Monty Catsin
Posted: November 12, 2011 by jamesrrellison in The Museum, The Political, The Prisonthe prison does not exist
Posted: October 27, 2011 by jamesrrellison in The Political, The PrisonTags: Architecture, Prison art, Simulacra
As a visitor/viewer in Wormwood Scrubs it felt like a simulacra of a prison rather than an actual penitentiary. The initial processing was as if subjected to a bizarre ticket system, where restrictions on height are replaced with restrictions on objects. The ticket office as the security station providing tokens (keys) to the attraction ahead. [...]
Jeremy Deller ‘I wish I’d thought of that’
Posted: October 27, 2011 by jamesrrellison in The Political, The Prison, UncategorizedTags: Folk art archive, Jeremy Deller, Prison art
Yesterday evening a few of us found ourselves in an audience with Turner prize winning artist Jeremy Deller. A bit of history, Deller never went art school instead he studied Art History and so ‘he never had the traditional trajectory expected of art students college > studio> gallery’. His work never involves ‘making a mess’ [...]
Parachuting / Dialogue, Intervention, Collaboration…
Posted: October 25, 2011 by casualagent in The Political, UncategorizedTags: collaboration, dialogue, intervention
Parachuting How does one recognize the difference between actively engaging in a ‘dialogue’ vs. actively inviting oneself to a dialogue? Does a dialogue need to be ‘encouraged’, or does it fail to be a true communication precisely once it becomes encouraged and promoted? Doesn’t the promotion of it stand exactly for its immediate ossification; a [...]
