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Abstract Human Labour Found in Food - Shock!

By Benedict Seymour 16 February 2013

A Gallerte* of undifferentiated human labour has been found in ALL food. Traces of it have also been found in ALL other commodities! Could it be tha...

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Keep Calm and Carrion: Two Funerals and a Reflection

By Benedict Seymour 18 April 2013

Some quick thoughts prompted by looking at images of St Paul's and Goldthorpe, the sites of two rather different funerals for Margaret Thatc...

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We Are Not From Here

By Eugene Thacker 19 March 2013

In Thomas Ligotti’s recent work of non-fiction, Eugene Thacker discovers a ‘concept horror’ innate to philosophy – the self-recognition of kno...

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Nothing is better than love: how not to repeat Weimar in Greece

By Benedict Seymour 27 October 2012

The following is a commentary on Paul Mason's important but flawed article on the situation in Greece: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20105881 Paul...

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Melody and Melancholy

By Eugene Thacker 23 August 2012

In an appreciation of Worcestershire goths, And Also The Trees, Eugene Thacker digs the 'unconditional sadness' which connects their music to a melanc...

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Crime Scene Investigation

By Benedict Seymour 20 August 2012

Shot at while eating alfresco in Broadway Market, E8. I think it's some kind of karma. Certainly another episode for the East London Book of the Dead....

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Alternative Olympics

By Benedict Seymour 21 July 2012

Should workers be organising their own counter-Olympics today? Or did they already run one back in August 2011? The Tate is screening 'The New...

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Anish Kapoor / Vanish the Poor: 3 Olympic Symptoms

By Benedict Seymour 18 July 2012

A series of visible symptoms reveal the truth of the London Olympics and the economy they celebrate. I'm continuing to pursue the idea proposed in my...

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Slave to the Rhythm: or, the Promissory Form of Labour

By Benedict Seymour 28 June 2012

Some notes on the new form of wage-labour. Read to the rhythm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNAG-oj4PWk ‘…it is the whisper of unremitting dem...

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