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.

E O Wilson

A revolutionary critique of E O Wilson - Stuart Wise

A Redefinition of Art and Science within Subversive Revolutionary Totality. Written 2004 and originally published on the Dialectical Butterfiles…

Leeds: Geology as Subversion? - Stuart Wise

Geology as counter revolution or revolt; subversion or nihilism; resignation or renewal? Thoughts on the changing face of a derive encountering…

Check out a real local horror story - sticker

John Clare Collective's subversive stickers in Ruskin's "Industrial gorge"

The stickers below are a wild combination of Situationist Raoul Vaneigem's theses cum comment: "that…

Panoramic views of The Big Field adjacent to Shipley Stn followed by a view from the field of the 'garage' site The 'hole' in the grove of birch and buddleia etc. is the entrance to a dark woodland path we created alongside the Bradford Beck, the clearing itself looking like the opening to the post industrial Wild Wood; something enchanted, slightly menacing, certainly noticeable but not all that much; a discreet menace.

Nameless Wilding - The John Clare Collective

"...a brief overview of interventions in landscapes of industrial dereliction that can have revolutionary possibilities providing we more or less…

Comments on Indian & York stone: slave labour, aesthetic life style, quarrying and butterflies

The following ramble is how the ex- King Mob building collective slowly but surely…

BedZed eco-housing

Derives, Housing & Real Ecos - Stuart Wise

The Lucas Aerospace Plan and community architecture. Jack Common and a Newcastle urban derive. Historicism and Aestheticism. BedZed, the Stern…

Chinese Takeaway: or a slow boat back from China

A critique of Western Maoism. Written collectively by Stuart Wise, Phil Meyler, David Wise: 1978-9. Originally published on Revolt Against Plenty…

China 1: Mao is the hour yet again?

An introduction to the MINUS Group and João Bernardo by David and Stuart Wise. Originally published on the Revolt Against Plenty website in 2012…

A b&w illustration of a spider by Clement B Davis which appears in Fabre's "The life of the spider"

Fabre, Darwin, Dalton & 'DNA' Watson meet Lautreamont - Stuart Wise

Perhaps to be read in conjunction with 'Reflections on Romanticism', this is the point where the…

Poets

Reflections on English and German Romanticism and the Revolt of Poetic Form - Stuart Wise

A line of radical research a keen young academic might like to pursue and elaborate…

ROTTENBUGGER: aka David Attenborough - Stuart Wise

ROTTENBUGGER: Encompassing the mythologisation of nature in film compeered by David Attenborough, concept art with finance, and ecology promoted…

Richard Mabey

Mabey Baby: A revolutionary critique of Richard Mabey

Stuart and David Wise's critique of nature writer and broadcaster Richard Mabey. Originally…