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'Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. It expels from movements all hesitation, deliberation, civility. I...

Tibetan singer Tashi Dhondup is reportedly serving 15 months hard labour after being arrested by the Chinese authorities for his 'subve...

Happy summer solstice, June 21st and here's the 21st completed Dancing Questionnaire from John Eden of Uncarved , Woofah and many other...

Is there a more obscene media spectacle at the moment than British newspapers like the Daily Express whipping up people to rally round BP ...

All over the world, pubs and bars are full of people watching the World Cup, drinking, singing, celebrating, commiserating. On this particul...

I am still digesting the rich fare served up by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Fred Moten at last week's Black Skin, White Marx? ev...

In the past couple of years there have been several albums aiming in some way to reflect on life in early 21st century London. Think The Bug...

A while ago I went to a talk by the great radical historian Peter Linebaugh on 'The Invisibility of the Commons' . In the course of ...

'Dancing, when poor human Nature lets itself loose from bondage and circumstances of anxious selfish care: it is Madness' Image: Unt...

Looking through some pictures I realized that I never got round to posting on my trip to Rome last year to take part in Electrode09 - Indepe...

The movement against the M11 linkroad in Leytonstone (or Leytonstonia as we termed it then), North East London, was one of the more ins...

Courtesy of Pops (Sentinel Design) and Wayne Anthony , some classic acid house footage from July 1989. It starts off with a Biology rave in ...

The precise details of what's going on in the Tivoli Gardens area of Kingston, Jamaica are still unclear. But it is already established ...

Went to an event at the 195 Mare Street squatted social centre in Hackney last weekend. Very interesting film and short talk from someone in...

In my street in New Cross last week, somebody left a pile of books outside for passers-by to help themselves to. So it came to pass that ove...

At 240 Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park in North London there is currently a semi derelict pub. Before it closed it was known as the George...

Thirty years ago this week... Ian Curtis , 15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980. An industry of Manchester retro-mania and Killers cover versions sti...

Love this story... a protest for better conditions for San Francisco hotel workers (including healthcare), featuring a flashmob in a hotel l...

In our search for the origins of rave , we have previously looked at the revivalist and trad jazz scenes in London from the late 1940s to th...

Iranian police detained 80 young men and women for "lustful pleasure-seeking" activities at an illegal concert, Tehran's chief...