New on Unkant: Cosmic Orgasm: The Music of Iancu Dumitrescu
Cosmic Orgasm: The Music of Iancu Dumitrescu ed. Andy Wilson ISBN: 978-0-9568176-5-5 Published: Apr 2013 406 pp Contents Ben Watson: Why The AMM Says ‘Listen to Dumitrescu!’ 1 Ben Watson: Spectrum...
View ArticleDumitrescu-Avram: Tectonics
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View ArticleBen Watson: Address to Spring Conference in Manchester
Ben Watson: Address to Spring Conference in Manchester 11 May 2013 This was the pre-written paper I took to Manchester. In the event, an improvised preamble about how the economic crisis has made...
View ArticleTHF Drenching: That Irregular Galvanic Twitch
A review of Bark! live at St Margaret's Church, Manchester Saturday 15-vi-2013 Bark! have just reached their 20th year. This gig marked a return to the place of the trio's formation, in 1993, on...
View ArticleBakhtin: Ideological Monologism
Ideological monologism found its clearest and theoretically most precise expression in idealistic philosophy. The monistic principle, that is, the affirmation of the unity of existence, is, in...
View ArticleOut to Lunch, Jacob Bard-Rosenberg: Letter to Goldsmiths Art Students
Out to Lunch: Introduction to Jacob Bard-Rosenberg's Letter to Goldsmiths Art Students I never thought I'd wind up anti-art. Stop! Before you start reeling off why I'm already wrong — 'philistine',...
View ArticleAMM#6: The AMM Capitulates to the Hierarchical Model
Are you a housewife or student with a lot of time on your hands, but who is intimidated by long words and heavy books in hardcovers and all the apparatus that goes with 'intelligence' in hierarchical,...
View ArticleAMM#7: Cafe OTO Launch of Ben Watson's 'Derek Bailey and the Story of Free...
Monday 22 July 2013 Door Times : 8pm Tickets : £4 on the door No panel, no book-reading, just Company-style ad hoc encounters between the most esemplastic free improvisors and word-manglers in town...
View ArticleGuy Debord: An Impassioned Drama
"They, the little men, seem to believe at present that I have taken things by the theory, that I am a builder of theory - that learned architecture you have only to go and inhabit as soon as you know...
View ArticleAMM#7 Videos
Scenes from the launch of the Verso paperback version of Ben Watson's Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation, at Cafe Oto, London, 22 July 2013.
View ArticleTrotsky, Breton: Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art
Editors' note: "Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art" first appeared in English on July 25th, 1938 in Partisan Review. It was the product of discussions between Andre Breton, Mexican muralist...
View ArticleDave Black: Hegel in 10 Minutes
A talk given at AMM#6, July 2013 I recently attended a philosophy conference in London at which an American professor presented a paper on how Marxism and Liberalism might be reconciled. Someone asked...
View ArticlePeter Hudis: Workers action made Marx change his mind
Triptych, Or, Seeing Off the Blind Forces of HistoryTo get a sense of how far the Commune changed Marx's perspectives on revolution, recall that in the Communist Manifesto he had written, "The...
View ArticleLee Smolin: Time Reborn - From the Crisis of Physics to the Future of the...
"We seem to have an ingrained idea that if something is valuable, it exists outside time.... We speak of 'truth' and 'justice' as timeless... As a result of this paradox we live in a state of...
View ArticleSpectrum XXI, London 2013
Spectrum XXI London 2013 7:30pm, 7th Nov 2103 Conway Hall London ELECTRONIC MUSIC by spectral composers Music by Hodgkinson, Pape, Ioachimescu, Sachs, Kivu, Dumitrescu 7.30 p.m. HYPERION...
View ArticleOut To Lunch: Raya Dunayevskaya & her Legacy
A review of Peter Hudis, Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2012) ISSN: 1570-1522 ISBN: 978 90 04 22197 0 Looking around at the fraught relationship between...
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