Society

In response to the massive and murderous raft of cuts being introduced by the State and local authorities (ConDem AND New Labour - NOTE) this month, I'm reposting this poem from the great Sean Bonney. Words that begin to approximate to how so many people feel right now, I'm guessing.

after Rimbaud: The Kidnap and Murder of David Cameron

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 that the capitalist production of commodities - meaty or vegan, comestible or otherwise - is in its entirety a form of CANNIBALISM?

Susan Schuppli discusses the exhibition by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Aural Contract: The Whole Truth, at Casco in Utrecht

In her 1971 essay, ‘Lying in Politics’, Hannah Arendt contends that in order to act, a space must be created for that action, which by necessity requires that something be removed or destroyed to allow for the new to emerge.

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

In the early 1970s, at the meeting point of workplace occupations and critical film-making, 20th century art's attraction to the factory reached a representational impasse. Taking up Harun Farocki’s idea that factory work has been systematically expunged from cinema, John Roberts considers why this hegemonic site of value-production must remain absent from film and bourgeois culture more generally