Stuart Wise

Content on or about Stuart Wise (1943-2021), writer, construction worker, proletarian ecologist and member of King Mob. Stuart was the twin brother of David Wise.

Shulamith Firestone: The Fire / The Fury / The Madness

On the Inspirational Magnanimous Despair of Shulamith Firestone. A fulsome detonation by Stuart &…

Photos of moths

Huddersfield Mothman - Stuart Wise

An evaluation of four early 20th century British scientists and their radical social inclinations. Comments too on some contemporary theorists of…

The covers of two books by Brendan Ward

Building stories: reflections on Brendan Ward's books - Stuart Wise

Reflections on Brendan Ward's "Builders' Remembered" (1984) and "Builders, Chancers and the Crack" …

Kurt Schwitters and Hilde Goldstein outside the Merz Barn, c. 1946

Kurt Schwitters and a Merzbau / Rubbish, Jiggery Pokery and the Wise Bros........

A 2013 text by Dave & Stuart Wise on German surrealist/dadaist Kurt Schwitters' "Merz barn" in the…

Wayward Notes on Feminism: A little bit of backwardness? - Stuart Wise

On French surrealist writer and poet Annie Le Brun, via some recent books, Blake, De Sade and Engels…

Damien Hirst's Shark in a tank

"The Physical Impossibility of Hirst in the Minds of the Living" - Stuart Wise

A 2008 article by Stuart Wise on the artist Damien Hirst.

"Meccano on Crack" Or "Tatlin on Crack" - Stuart Wise

A Psychotic Amalgam of Architecture/Sculpture/Engineering. The unveiling on April Fools Day of Anish…

God is dead graffiti plus rubbish, car tyre etc

All The Way To The Bank(sy)!! Some reflections - Stuart Wise

A 2015 text by Stuart Wise (with help from twin brother David) on graffiti artist Banksy, his…

Two black and white photographs of Trocchi - playing chess and injecting himself with a syringe

Alex Trocchi's Hour Upon The Stage - David & Stuart Wise (Spring 2008)

The Wise Brothers on the situationist and novelist Alex Trocchi. Originally published on the Revolt…

Brief summary of Marx and the Credit Mechanism - Stuart Wise (2009)

Brief summary of Marx and the Credit Mechanism - and sundry discordant reflections on a horribly…

nietzsche playing the piano

Nietzsche, Revolutionary Subversion and the Contemporary attack on Music - Stuart Wise

On Nietzsche, music, motherfuckers and insects. From December 2007. Originally published on the…

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…