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.

A large pile of Stuart Wise's notebooks near a window.

Fuck the 'new' Nature Writing - Stuart & David Wise

....marking the failure of eco-engage to encounter total revolutionary critique...... Memoirs of an indefatigable note-taker. Written 2009 and…

Eco Disasters

Archive of the "eco disasters" section from the Dialectical Butterflies website. Very much a work in progress.

Butterflies and Political Economy - Stuart Wise

Musings on Hegel and British ecological geneticist E B Ford.

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Dialectical Butterflies archive on Libcom

An index of material available on Libcom relating to the now defunct Dialectical Butterfiles website, which included a number of texts relating…

Lost Ones Around King Mob

Miscellaneous King Mob (and associated) leaflets and declamatory statements, compiled by David Wise for the Revolt Against Plenty Website.

Part 2 Situ Reorientation debate: The Red Brigades in Italy

Part 2: On the 1970 Situationist Reorientation Debate, the Never Work(ing) worker. Mayakovsky /…

King Mob: Icteric & the Newcastle Experience from the early to late 1960s

Thoughts on Butterfly migration and Icteric - a 'radical' arts magazine produced in Newcastle upon…

Land Art, Icteric and William Wordsworth - David and Stuart Wise

Land art and Icteric. Plus Wordsworthian environment emotion recollected on tranquilisers (er,…

Comparisons: From Mass Observation to King Mob - Stuart Wise

The changing face of revolutionary elites from the 1930s to the late 1960s and ever after. (Personal…

Mock up of cover of King Mob book in Spanish

New Introduction to Spanish King Mob - David & Stuart Wise

Introduction to "King Mob: Nosotros, el Partido del Diablo" published La Felquera in Madrid. Written…

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…