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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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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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