I wrote ‘there is no such thing as documentary’ because it’s illusory to take the real and reality for granted and to think that a neutral language exists... To use an image is to enter fiction. Trinh T. Minh-ha

Reality is a Plane poorlyheir.bigcartel.com/product/real...

RIP Ben Morea. This Chris Marker film shows the time Morea and others broke into the Pentagon during an anti-war protest. vimeo.com/239333605

Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969. Mierle Laderman Ukeles

“The poor image… takes its place in the genealogy of carbon-copied pamphlets, cine-train agit-prop films, underground video magazines and other nonconformist materials...” Hito Steyerl www.e-flux.com/journal/10/6...

Wise Fish. A fishy tale about the party of labour. poorlyheir.bigcartel.com/product/wise...

Bore. 72 months of mostly mundane internal company announcements hand-finished with a horribly hewn hole. poorlyheir.bigcartel.com/product/bore

Sorted. A saga about socks. poorlyheir.bigcartel.com/product/sorted

A Log. poorlyheir.bigcartel.com/product/a-log

Some of our stuff is now available online. Artists’ books, mail art and other scraps. poorlyheir.bigcartel.com

Spell for Léon Fouks - Antonin Artaud

"There is another woman gleaning in this film, that's me." Agnès Varda

"Our goal is simply to point out irregularity as a device, to show the necessity and the importance of irregularity in art." Aleksei Kruchenykh

The Fall - Fortress / Deer Park www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcEa...

A nice picture of Alice Coltrane, maker and champion of Cosmic Music.

fully automated jobs for hangmen [Sean Bonney / Sacha Kahir] www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a6l...

#OtD 23 Nov 1890 revolutionary constructivist Jewish artist El Lissitzky was born in Pochinok, Russia. During the 1917 revolution he helped design propaganda posters for the revolutionaries. We have reproduced some of his work, available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Helmut Herbst (1969) “The one-hour 35mm film DEUTSCHLAND DADA was made in 1968/69 in the form of a dada alphabet. [...] Outstanding: the statements & performances of the Dadaists Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck & Hans Richter who were still alive at the time.” www.ubu.com/film/herbst_...

“we never were; so we remain” (Paul Celan)

Somebody’s added a bit of Linton Kwesi Johnson to one of the painted St. George’s Cross flags appearing round our way. ‘Dere's no escapin it…’

Loads of wonderful writing in the new Variant magazine. Happy to have contributed a piece with Anthony Iles on experimental forms in communist publishing - ‘Form & Against’ variant.org.uk

Chris Marker (29 juillet 1921 - 29 juillet 2012) 🖤✨👑

«Ho meritato l’odio universale della società del mio tempo e mi avrebbe dato fastidio avere altri meriti agli occhi di una società del genere» Guy Debord, Contre le Cinéma. Institut Scandinave de Vandalisme Comparé, Paris 1964.

Some titles we picked up yesterday from the brilliant 56a infoshop mini small press fair.

Samstag in Berlin, letzte Veranstaltung des Semesters mit @elenavogman.bsky.social, Francesca Raimondi, Katja Diefenbach und Frank Engster in der @hellepanke.bsky.social #ausgebucht

The Fall - It's the New Thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKyV...

'Samuel Beckett surprised Marcuse with a poem for his eightieth birthday that we publish above with an English translation by Edith Fourier...'

It’s a Sketches of Spain kinda evening 🎺🔥

“Nous sommes certainement des Barbares puisqu’une certaine forme de civilisation nous écœure. [...] L’époque moderne a fait son temps. La stéréotypie des gestes, des actes, des mensonges de l’Europe a accompli le cycle du dégoût.” La Révolution surréaliste, #5, 1925.

"Against vexingly persistent elitist and transhistorical conceptions of art as existing outside the material conditions of its production, Routhier offers a 'categorical' critique of art." - I have a new essay out, read it here: www.e-flux.com/journal/155/...

Mood: youtu.be/S2q4Zjy_V3A?...

79 Primaveras [79 Spring Times of Ho Chi Minh]. Santiago Alvarez film from 1969. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2yc...

Looking forward to getting into more archival research @wcmlibrary.bsky.social this summer as part of a @uom-humsdocacad.bsky.social PGR Placement. Exploring my fave topic of 1970s grassroots/activist newspapers 💓 Get in touch if you'd like to be involved! wcml.org.uk/blog/the-peo...

Orgreave Anniversary March and Rally #Sheffield City Hall 14 June 2025

Rosalind Belben's great novel Dreaming of Dead People from 1979 is being reissued in August by And Other Stories. www.andotherstories.org/authors/rosa...

Your eye looked on, looked away, your mouth spoke its way to the eye, and I heard: We don’t know, you know, we don’t know, do we?, what counts. Paul Celan; tr. Michael Hamburger

June, where did you go? I'll see you on the other side www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpUC...

I've got a new essay out today in @eflux.bsky.social on the occasion of T.J. Clark's new book. I write about "what happens in paint," about art and politics, Trump, the 'mad sublimity' of the society of the spectacle in fascist overdrive, and the abolition of art. www.e-flux.com/notes/660176...

Early stories from Bernhard due later this year, translated by @shirtysleeves.bsky.social Really could do with Manfred Mittermayer's biography too.

"This is your world. Shape it or someone else will." Scenes from a morning walk.

Kazimir Malevich, Workers of all countries unite! (1918).

Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers: “Can this age, this disintegrating life, be said still to have reality? My passivity increases from day to day, not because I am exhausted by struggling with a reality that may be stronger than myself, but because on all sides I encounter unreality. [+]

I’ll be talking at this at MayDay Rooms - Wed 26th - 6.30 pm Hope to see some of you there 👇❤️🖤

"For a long time I thought writing was a job of work. I'm now convinced that it's an inner event, a 'non-work' that you accomplish, above all, by emptying yourself out, and allowing what's already self-evident to percolate through." – Duras spurious.typepad.com/spurious/201...

Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 10: Autonomia and Art with Jacopo Galimberti youtu.be/pXiN2Sx3TFA This episode is a discussion with Jacopo Galimberi about this book Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962–1988) @versobooks.bsky.social

Mark E Smith was born 68 years ago today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7tU...

Lately I often think about John Sloan's 1914 cover for The Masses showing a crowd trying to get at John D. Rockefeller Jr., whose bloodied hands signal his involvement in massacre of miners at Ludlow, Colorado. Just imagine a historical moment in which wealthy were held accountable for their actions