Film Fictions of the Iraq War Tom Jennings examines television and cinema stories about the US/UK ‘war on terror’ in terms of the notion that ‘war is the health of the state’.
Hong Kong: Where anarchists and blackbirds sing about freedom Brief report on anarchist elements in the Hong Kong activist scene ca. 2009, focusing on Lenny Guo of the band Blackbird, veteran of the 70s Front.
Marut, Ret: The Early B. Traven - James Goldwasser A 1990s article surveying the then recently-acquired Ret Marut archive, now residing with the University of California. The documents confirm…
I blame the parents! Popular media coverage often lays the blame for youth problems at the feet of parents. New report shows that contrary to received opinion,…
Surrealism in the Arab world Article printed in the journal Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion no.3, 1976, including The Manifesto of the Arab Surrealist Movement, 1975.
Art as Form of Reality - Herbert Marcuse Marcuse discusses the traditional conservative role of art in society, artistic challenges to traditional art forms in the 1970s - and what role…
The Arts and other Social Diseases Art arrives abstracted and objectified into a poor substitute for real human presence, even in the presence of humans. The arts are a freakish…
The Closed Window Onto Another Life - endangeredphoenix Culture is the commodity that sells the whole of the commodity economy. But a critique of art and of…
Reservoir of poses - Gregor Jamroski This article first appeared in the early 1980’s in New York and an edited version was republished a few years later in an obscure, apparently one…
Korean workers ring in new year with strike for press freedom Media workers have launched a general strike against a new set of state laws which they claim will…
Manufacturing consent: a propaganda model - Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky Chomsky and Herman explain their brilliant "propaganda model", which illustrates how the media…
