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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 ...

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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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We're into Endgame

By Benedict Seymour 14 October 2010

'Cut us, don't kill us!' plead UK culture luvvies, but perhaps 'if you're going to hit me, hit me with the axe' is a more radical slogan? Benedict ...

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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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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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