Two other Anthony Davies texts on Metamute are essential if this debate on the ICA is to be understood in a wider context. As well as his original Culture Clubs (2000) written with Simon Ford the two texts are:

1. Basic Instinct: Trauma and Retrenchment 2000-4 (2005)
http://www.metamute.org/en/Basic-Instinct-Trauma-and-Retrenchment-2000-4

Basic instinct alludes to the reassertion of capitals core values within the art scene.

It starts with a reference to the previous director at the ICA:

http://defendsussex.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/occupation-statement-1/

We have occupied the top floor of Bramber House, University of Sussex, Brighton. There are 106 of us.

The decision to occupy has been taken after weeks of concerted campaigning during which the university management have repeatedly failed to take away the threat of compulsory redundancies and course cuts.

We recognise that an attack on education workers is an attack on us.

It has been 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are ‘celebrating' this anniversary at a time when global capitalism and liberal democracy, the so-called winners of the Cold War struggle between East and West, find themselves in one of the deepest economic and political crises since the Wall Street crash in 1929 and the global turmoil that followed.