Archive for 2012
Noam Chomsky quotes: An exhibition of letterpress prints by Adam Burton / 6 October – 3 November 2012
The exhibition Noam Chomsky quotes: presents a series of printed letterpress posters of text quotes taken from a range of thinkers and writers who have concerned themselves with tendencies in Liberalism, Socialism, Anarchism, and Democracy during the last 250 years. These quotes have illustrated various ideas throughout Noam Chomsky’s work in political analysis and the study of language, addressing issues such as: the crimes and legitimacy of the state, worker control over industry, education, anarchist collectivisation, political organisation, human nature, social revolution, creativity, propaganda and public relations, the foundations of government, wage slavery, and other things.
Each print is accompanied by a pamphlet of the original essay, article, or speech that has been quoted and a collection of books used to research the project will be on display. The prints are on sale for £3 each –the related pamphlet is provided free with the print. Proceeds from sales will be given to Freedom Newspaper – the oldest and only regular anarchist newspaper published in the UK today – which is threatened with closure. During the opening event an audio recording of a talk by Noam Chomsky, called Government in the Future, will be playing. Several of the quotes printed were taken from it.
Quotes of or writing by: Mikhail Bakunin, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Alex Carey, John Dewey, Karl Korsch, Simone Linguet, Rosa Luxemburg, Paul Mattick, Jan Myrdal, National Confederation of Labour -France, Anton Pannekoek, Henry Demarest Lloyd, Rudolf Rocker, Bertrand Russell, Dora Russell, Adam Smith, and South Wales Miners’ Federation – are included in the exhibition.
Exhibition open on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 11- 6pm.
Until Saturday 3 November 2012.
Publishing Forum: Reading Group. Wednesday 17th October 2012
Publishing Forum: Reading Group.
Wednesday 17th October 2012, 7.15pm
Meet at BANNER REPEATER
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This week we will be discussing:
The Binder and the Server
Published by Triple Canopy, March 2012
Black and white, 70pp
ISBN 978-0-9847346-1-0
Designed by Franklin Vandiver
The Binder and the Server is the outcome of several group discussions among Triple Canopy editors, and was written by senior editor Colby Chamberlain. The essay details the history of Triple Canopy in order to stake out our position on the ideology of Internet culture. By carefully examining the history of new-media publishing and the shift from disciplinary to control societies, the essay addresses the politics of online identity, friendship, labor, and the dream of digital democracy. In short: On the Internet, we are all contractors.
This 70 page pocket-sized edition of The Binder and the Server, designed by Franklin Vandiver, draws on experimental paperbacks of the 1960s, chief among them the collaborations of Marshall McLuhan and graphic designer Quentin Fiore. The book is characterized by cinematic layouts that merge text, typography, illustration, photography, and original artwork by Josh Kline and Dan Torop.
Available from Lulu, price £3.95
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Publishing Forum: Reading Group / Wednesday 3 October 2012
Publishing Forum: Reading Group.
Wednesday 3rd October 2012, 7.15pm at X Marks the Bökship
Discussing: The Electric Information Age Book. McLuhan / Agel / Fiore and the Experimental Paperback by Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Adam Michaels.
Inventory Books, Princeton Architectural Press
New joint reading group with Banner Repeater, X Marks the Bökship, and Arnaud Desjardin from Everday Press, with a specific focus on publishing.
The next reading group meeting will be held at X Marks the Bökship. Read from page 100 to the end of The Electric Information Age Book and join us for a discussion. It may also help to have read The Medium is the Massage. All welcome.
This book group will meet on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month.
The Erotic Book Club / Thursday 27 September, 8pm
Well, book club is back this month after a summer break. We hope you have
enjoyed yourselves, but now it is time to get down to business: 50 SHADES
OF GREY. Yes, that’s right, it is finally time to talk about the zeitgeist
of erotic literature. You’ve had 2 long months to read as much (or as
little) of this trilogy as you preferred and now you better get your butts
to book club next Thursday and tells us what you thought.
Bring wine and nibbles
Meet 8pm
Thurs 27th September
The Bokship
Unit 3, 210 Cambridge Heath Road
London
E2 9NQ
x Fanny & Robin x
Launch of Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music by Ferruccio Busoni / Friday 21 September 2012, 6.30 – 9.00pm
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Launch of Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music by Ferruccio Busoni
Friday 21 September 2012, 6.30 – 9.00pm
New translation by Pamela Johnston
Foreword by Adam Harper
Published by Precinct
Special launch price: £5
Talk by Adam Harper
‘Music was born free and one day will regain its freedom – that is its destiny.’
– Ferruccio Busoni, Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music, 1907.
Little known in the English-speaking world, Ferruccio Busoni’s Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music is a daringly progressive statement about the necessary freedom and future of music, its broad and prescient outlook all the more fascinating for its having arrived so early. Busoni was a composer, composition teacher and virtuoso concert pianist of early twentieth-century Europe, born Italian but working in Germany, and a highly respected figure in his time. His Sketch was written immediately prior to his mentoring of avant-garde composers such as Arnold Schoenberg and Edgard Varèse, whose ground-breaking work came to define twentieth-century classical music. Yet Busoni’s writing is steeped in ornate, deeply poetic language, in nineteenth-century philosophy and Romanticism. As a bygone era metamorphoses into the new one that will stretch all the way to John Cage, he even brandishes news of the first keyboard-based electric sound synthesiser with enthralled delight.
This new edition features a new translation into English by Pamela Johnston, a foreword by music critic Adam Harper, and includes the rare and remarkable Epilogue, an abstract imagining of a ‘Realm of Music’. It has been prepared in the hope that Busoni’s passion for the eternally new freedoms of musical creativity might not only refresh the way we encounter twentieth century music, but might inspire twenty-first century musicians and listeners to rediscover the deepest questions in musical philosophy and resume the constant struggle for the music of the future.
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