London

Articles on the English city of London.

This photo of London's Soho / Covent Garden in the1950s shows the type of six story early Victorian buildings we had to deal with

A Missing Lost Story relating to Notes on the Economics and Aesthetics of the UK's Great Building Disaster - David Wise

Reflections on building work in the late 1970s in Covent Garden, central London,…

Buster Keaton stands in front of a wonky house

Notes toward the Economics and Aesthetics of the UK's Great Building Disaster - Stuart Wise

An expansive reflection on changes in building/construction work in London from the…

Why Miss World? cover

Why Miss World? (1971)

Text of a pamphlet produced by women who participated in the mass disruption of the Miss World beauty competition in London in 1971. Contributors…

Stuart Wise on a roof in London

Vanishing New York / London Gentrification - Loren Goldner and David Wise

"Plus an old anti-art text by David Wise along with perhaps the last text by Loren Goldner who was…

brutalist playground Assembly

A dissembling Assemble and the fatuous Turner Prize

Plus our building gang – amongst other things here - between late 2013-5 transform a London church for communal living...... By David & Stuart…

fence in front of a railway bridge in the Olympic Park "Danger Protected by Razor Wire"

London's Olympic Legacy: Town Planning For Insects

By David & Stuart Wise. Originally published on the Revolt Against Plenty website.

XR "conscientious protector" patch taken at XR road occupation in Dalston Feb 2019

Driving Me Fekkin' Wild: Down and dirty with Extinction Rebellion - David Wise

A dense, meandering, wide-ranging theoretical-cum-practical critique of XR whilst literally stuck in…

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary

A Drift on Germaine Greer, Feminism and Modern-Day Shameless Ranterism - David Wise

King Mob's graffiti vs Germaine Greer's mortgage, the wider context of West London in the 1970s…

Same thing day after day graf

The late 1960s and King Mob

The English Situationists and the Newcastle rebellion join forces. Similarities and differences. Reading Marx, Lefebvre and Hegel. Black Mask and…

Malcolm McLaren re-enacts the King Mob intervention at Selfridges in his film "The Ghosts of Oxford Street" (1991)

King Mob, Santa Claus and Selfridges: Christmas 1968

On situationist-inspired group King Mob's riotous intervention at Selfridges.

Cover of Rising Free catalog

Rising Free Collective/Bookshop Catalog - Sept 1973

September 1973 catalog for anarchist/situationist/left communist bookshop/collective Rising Free, which at the time was at 197 Kings Cross Road…

Class Power on Zero-Hours book cover

Class Power on Zero-Hours - Angry Workers

A book by Angry Workers, a small political collective, which spent six years organising in London’s industrial backyard, mainly in the food…