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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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GAME OF THRALLS - AN ART AND LABOUR FANTASIA

By Benedict Seymour 8 July 2014

Trying to do labour politics in the artworld would be like attempting union organising in Game of Thrones. Discuss....   And now, a brief fant...

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Domino, no, no!

By Benedict Seymour 6 April 2014

The Domino sugar factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is  currently being torn down and replaced with massive condominiums. As it happens, these ...

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Nuff Aura: Absolute Artwork Meets Absolute Desperation

By Benedict Seymour 28 March 2014

  [This little screed was written as a facebook post but seemed worth giving a minutely longer half life... It responds to this article: ...

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A Christmas Gif(t)

By Benedict Seymour 21 December 2013

  The world of animated gifs is 'another nature': a land of cockayne in which something crazy is always happening, business people walking dow...

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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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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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Notes on Normcore

By Benedict Seymour 29 May 2014

Written in a (normcore-appropriate) low fever, reading these notes over they seem mad enough to make some sense. A response to the great Tom Fran...

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