I’m really looking forward to this and a certain well-soiled (rather than grounded I mean) essaying forensicness that you/DH bring/s to the all-encompassing/immersive and unacknowledged -in SM’s terms- subject, l/Life as such! -embodied not only in flowers/flora but narrations/story…

Turns out we could beat the billionaires.

Just a reminder that access to the audio-visual moment of this very special series expires within a few days, approx a week I believe. You know what to do!

I don’t care about the hypothetical condemnation of fascists in a future history book; the fascists should be afraid of the strength of humanity here and now, they should either run and hide from the light for eternity or reject their wicked ways and atone for their actions

Editorial: Zohran Mamdani is leading a US political revolution — and across the Atlantic, Zack Polanski is mounting his own against the rise of UK fascism ⬇️

Is this same Labour Government expanding airports, refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature? Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Avec 470 arbres plantés et 4 000m2 de nature en plein cœur du 14e arrondissement, la place de Catalogne s'est radicalement transformée en 2024 !

I encourage people to listen. Sonic protection. Acoustic healing.

WOW! Do jump all over The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum, shaped by Christina Sharpe ofc, feat. Glenn Coulthard, Madeleine Thien, Canisia Lubrin & Immanuel Wilkins. Just brilliant; the world as a different, possible, homely place. Watch/listen >c18m: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...

for watching if you missed and would like a dose of the kind of attentive, attuned brilliance that makes hope possible in times like these

I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus. Sound—at the Interregnum. Glen Coulthard Madeleine Thien Canisia Lubrin Immanuel Wilkins Whew. What they did!!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...

WOW! Do jump all over The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum, shaped by Christina Sharpe ofc, feat. Glenn Coulthard, Madeleine Thien, Canisia Lubrin & Immanuel Wilkins. Just brilliant; the world as a different, possible, homely place. Watch/listen >c18m: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...

That was the best Alchemy Lecture by far. (Now comparison is a problem since each lecture addresses a different theme. But wow. That was phenomenal!). #Alchemylecture2025. Whew chile.

‘Dima Srouiji’s work is a positive statement of her community’s long existence & heritage. “It’s much more about Palestinian life than about Palestinian death,” she says. “I want to push our presence so we are not erased… I want to haunt people”’ -at Ab-Anbar www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/10/p...

Breaking point. All over the world. What’s the sound of collective snapping.

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Right to Roam campaigners call for access to all England’s rivers Our local groups are organising 9 river trespasses in November to highlight how inadequate & unworkable the government’s pledge of a mere 9 river walks is: www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Not complacent! But Reform’s polling will follow UKIP’s, leaving MPs and Councillors in place but being overtly racist and incompetent. The Greens support will prove more solid… this is much more organic and ground-up, consolidated by clarity, vigour, tough-mindedness, hope/“hope” from/at the top💚

Not complacent! But Reform’s polling will follow UKIP’s, leaving MPs and Councillors in place but being overtly racist and incompetent. The Greens support will prove more solid… this is much more organic and ground-up, consolidated by clarity, vigour, tough-mindedness, hope/“hope” from/at the top💚

‘Llegir Palestina’: Making a Space to Read About Palestine The book club “Llegir Palestina” (“Read Palestine” in Catalan) has been a success in Catalunya’s public libraries; next, organizers plan to offer workshops to library staff and volunteers on how to start up their own “Read Palestine” books…

Democrassness🩸

Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza, but continues to attack its neighbours on multiple fronts.

British Library staff are out on strike from Monday 27 October until Sunday 9 November over pay: please do not undermine their action by attending this exhibition (or any other events at the BL) during that time. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

Vital thread, a lot of naïveté about! Yet, or meanwhile, I used Signal once (pre-Cvd) from a Deportee’s Room within a hub airport to forewarn colleagues, one of whom could safely reply from outside that airport a few kms away… Given, let’s say, various other factors this was pretty remarkable. But👇

The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

With all the milestones, how extraordinary this is can get lost! Last Sunday on the BBC I announced we overtook the Tories at 124k members. That's +26,000 members in the last week. Hope is feeling normal again....

It’s quite impressive how Mamdani has pulled almost every Dem into his coalition, not him into theirs. He keeps the door open for everyone but true enemies (Adams, Cuomo) & rather than try to extort a Hochul into a promise, he just puts her onstage & lets the popular will confront her. Amazing.

Glad to stumble upon this from Wolfgang Tillman’s (from IG). Another reason to catch his xlnt and poignant return to Herald Street in particular amongst the three shows at Maureen Paley’s spaces til 20 December.

‘what's going on in the rest of the world’ -is that the entire political, military, tech & media establishment has devoted everything it has to finance, participate in, arm & shield politically/legally, Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza & beyond. And even that suicidal corruptedness is not enough!

More or less the same thing, for me; Celtis australis, Bronti Close, Walworth #HeygateLegacyForest #FutureSpecies

Small & quite actually-strange in an obviously good way as well as, well, yeh strong embrace of estrangement way/s. Helen Marten at Sadie Cole’s in Bury St., St James’s. Series of big ‘canvases’, chunky frames incl inserted ones w people & snails plus (a)typical very free mucking/experimenting 👁️👁️

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‘Approximately 17% of England and Wales remains *undeclared* at the Land Registry’. That’s on top of another 30% locked up in multi-generational privilege, very far from public notice or debate & multi-gen. deprivations. Change this or change *nothing* in Britain. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

But Starmer is 'deeply saddened' that they will not be allowed to spout their racists filth in the UK www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I am outraged that apparently jews are not welcome at football matches in Tel Aviv (am I doing this right?) news.sky.com/story/tel-av...

‘One poll found that 82% of Israeli Jews favored expelling Gazans. You can quibble with one poll or another, but you have clear Israeli Jewish majorities in favor of pushing Palestinians outside of Gaza… Israelis don’t feel any real consequences’ -Nathan Thrall. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Insatiable👽

‘Floating wetlands mimic the functions of natural ecosystems, filtering nutrients & pollutants through plant roots & microbial communities.’ London needs these throughout its ruined river system; look at the Chicago river here! *Plus extensive wetland buffering*. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘Palestine is actually one of humanity’s oldest toponyms, and records of a people named after it are as old as literacy itself. Palestine was an established name for the coast between Egypt and Phoenicia since at least the second millennium BCE’. Further reading 🔻 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Insatiable👽

‘One poll found that 82% of Israeli Jews favored expelling Gazans. You can quibble with one poll or another, but you have clear Israeli Jewish majorities in favor of pushing Palestinians outside of Gaza… Israelis don’t feel any real consequences’ -Nathan Thrall. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

‘Palestine is actually one of humanity’s oldest toponyms, and records of a people named after it are as old as literacy itself. Palestine was an established name for the coast between Egypt and Phoenicia since at least the second millennium BCE’. Further reading 🔻 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

British.

Whoda thunk it?!

A (Barbarian) Design For Life -Manic Anti-State Preachers

People still think they don’t need to read black thinkers to do their work. They’re wrong and their work is worse for it.

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Horrifying piece that shows exactly how Labour minister is dancing to the tune of biggest profit-driven developers & failing to meet pledges on new homes & on affordability. Worse, they don’t even seem to care 👇