The Barbarism of Pure Culture

13/03/2025

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F1D7YFV2?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520

The Phantasmagoria of Capital: A Short History of the Commodity, the Spectacle and its Discontents

11/10/2024

Memories of Musical Subversion

23/08/2024

https://youtu.be/eWdzr97lQGo

David Black is a freelance writer and reporter, specializing in the analysis of covert action by the secret services. He has contributed to Rolling Stone and...

19/04/2024

Jack Hilton’s Caliban Shrieks, now back in print after 90 years, is a forgotten ‘modernist’ classic. Breaking the mold of the ‘working class novel’ (such as Walter Greenwood’s Love on the Dole, published in 1933), Hilton’s narrative cracks along without any dialogue between characters and with no character development apart from the protagonist’s own and his circumstances. As George Orwell put it, the book ‘deals with its subject from the inside, and consequently it gives one, instead of a catalogue of facts relating to poverty, a vivid notion of what it feels like to be poor.’

Review: Jack Hilton’s Caliban Shrieks In a previous post about the publication of the new Penguin edition of Caliban Shrieks by Jack Hilton, I ran George Orwell’s Adelphi review in 1935, which described it as ‘witty and unusual’ presentation of ‘a genuinely working-class outlook… exceedi...

06/04/2024

https://blackd.substack.com/p/how-new-york-lost-its-soul

31/03/2024

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19/03/2024

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dialectical-Butterflies-Extinction-Illustrated-WiseEbooks-ebook/dp/B0CYCRYY38/

Dialectical Butterflies: Ecocide, Extinction Rebellion, Greenwash and Rewilding the Commons - an Illustrated Dérive (WiseEbooks Book 2) eBook : Wise, Dave , Wise, Stuart: Amazon.co.uk: Books

20/01/2024

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Set to his own music ('Dinetispaghetis') David Black offers a 3-minute post-war history of Psychedelia, and its heroes and villains,

10/01/2024

“Whether art is abolished, perishes, or despairingly hangs on, it is not mandated that the content of past art perish. It could survive art in a society that had freed itself of the barbarism of its culture.” Theodor Adorno

Lost Texts Around King Mob 1968-1972 eBook : Wise, Dave and Stuart, Vermerol, Fred, Meyler, Phil, Barker, John, Gray, Chris: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store