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Bitcoin – finally, fair money?

By The Wine and Cheese Appreciation Society of Greater London and Scott Len 21 February 2012

Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency deploying peer-to-peer networking to enable secure and anonymous transactions without a central bank. Unli...

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The Dark Arts

By Stefan Szczelkun 15 February 2012

Gregory Sholette’s book, Dark Matter, provides a useful collectivising term for those artists who produce the art world from below. But, wonders Ste...

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Glass Architecture – A Riotous Mythology

By Mark Crinson 9 February 2012

The act of smashing glass can reveal the material's most troubling quality: its transparency may invite us to look, but not necessarily to ent...

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Adventures in the Sausage Factory: A Cursory Overview of UK University Struggles, November 2010 – July 2011

By Danny Hayward 25 January 2012

Nearly a year after the attenuation of a wave of further and higher education struggles against state-led ‘decomposition’, Danny Hayward looks bac...

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La Jetée’s Spiral

By Benedict Seymour 5 January 2012

The image's mediation of the past is far from nostalgically comforting, writes Benedict Seymour in his review of Les Marques Aveugles at the Centre d'...

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Riot Polit-Econ

By Khalid Qureshi Foundation and Chelsea Ives Youth Centre 17 February 2012

In this riposte to the moral backlash against the UK’s August riots, The Khalid Qureshi Foundation & Chelsea Ives Youth Centre survey...

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Agit Disco collects the playlists of its 23 writers to tell the story of how music has politically influenced and inspired them. The book provides a multi-genre survey of political musics, from a wide range of viewpoints, that goes beyond protest songs into the darker hinterlands of musical meaning.

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Anomie/ Bonhomie & Other Writings

By mute 30 November 2011

In this, his long awaited first book, Howard Slater extemporizes around what Walter Benjamin could have meant by the phrase 'affective classes'. Rathe...

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Social tenants hit by rent hikes

by BeTheMedia - various Isles alt media 22 Feb 2012

Author: richard Manchester’s council tenants face an inflation-busting 6.48 per cent rent hike from April, according to plans signed off by Town Hall chiefs last week. Social ten... more