History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Drag is about many things

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'Drag is about many things . It is about clothes and sex. It subverts the dress codes that tell us what men and women should look li...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Badiou's Rebirth of History

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Alain Badiou's latest book to be translated into English is 'The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings' (published by...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Parties Make Me Anxious - Paul Morley (1988)

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In December 1988, Paul Morley wrote an article for Marxism Today magazine entitled 'Towing the Party Line': 'Parties make me a...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

Malawi School Disco Riot

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'Banning Disco nights cause Chayamba secondary school to close as students riot' (6 November 2012, Zodiak Radio ) 'Chayamba S...
Wednesday, November 07, 2012

History is Made at Night Sampler 1.0 - a zine for the bookfair

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The London Anarchist Bookfair was a couple of weeks ago (October 27th to be precise) and to turn up without some printed matter to dissemi...
Sunday, November 04, 2012

Dead by Dawn: partying on the 'kinetic-sensory-pharmacological-sonic frontiers'

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Friday night's Praxis Records party on the MS Stubnitz in London docklands was great, may write a bit more about it, but for now here...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Praxis Records 20th Anniversary Party

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Looking forward to next Friday's Praxis records party in London, all aboard the MS Stubnitz boat (facebook events details here ) . Pr...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Music for the Middle of the Night

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From Haruki Murakami's 'After Dark', 2004: 'The record ends. the automatic turntable lifts the needle, and the tone arm d...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Datacide Twelve is Out!

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The twelfth issue of Datacide, 'the magazine for noise and politics',  is out today, with 68 pages of stuff you won't find in an...
Monday, October 15, 2012

Wild Nights

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Rita Tushingham and Michael York in Smashing Time (1967) 'Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee, Wild nights should be ...
Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Hobsbawm on Jazz, Dance and Class

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The historian Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) died yesterday at the age of 95.  There's plenty to criticise in his political judgement  as he...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Someday all the Adults will Die!: Punk Graphics 1971-84

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'Some day all the adults will die!: punk graphics 1971-1984' is a free exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, on until 4th N...
Sunday, September 23, 2012

Party Riots in Holland and Spain

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34 people were arrested in Haren, Netherlands , on Friday night (21 September 2012), after thousands of people turned up for a young woman...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Expect Anything, Fear Nothing

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Coming up on Saturday 22 September,  8:00pm - 10:00pm,  at the Mayday Rooms , St Brides Yard, outside 88 Fleet Street, London: 'An e...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Revolution as resonance

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Following on from Negri and Hardt's recent reference to 'low frequency' communication between struggles, here's anothe...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

Low Frequency Struggles

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'Early in 2011, in the depths of social and economic crises characterized by radical inequality, common sense seemed to dictate that we...
Saturday, September 08, 2012

London Drum Riot for Pussy Riot

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Global Day of Action in support of Pussy Riot next Saturday September 15 - London action is 11 am - 2 pm opposite Russian Consulate,...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Sicilian Dance Trophies

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The centrepiece of 'Pursuit of Perfection: The Politics of Sport' at the South London Gallery is Aleksandra Mir's Triumph. ...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Party in the Essex Woods

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From Southend Standard (10 August 2012): 'Footage of revellers at an illegal rave in Rochford woodland has been posted on YouTube.M...
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Girl with Cassette Recorder (1975)

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This great photograph of a young woman with her cassette recorder was taken in London in 1975 by US photographer Al Vandenberg. It fea...
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