“Exploring the unknown city is a political act: a way of bringing to urban dwellers new resources for remapping the city. Nevertheless, the unknown might resist such attempts at disclosure. It could be that what is known about the city has been known all along.”
– Steve Pile, The Un(known) City … or, an Urban Geography of What Lies Buried below the Surface
Thought I’d share this insightful vid about the Situationist International
Found this on the HMHB website – sublime:
“Locations namechecked in the collected works of Half Man Half Biscuit, the greatest group of recent times who are quite rightly (in the words of the late great John Peel) “A British institution”.
Created by Stuart Vallantine and a band of other HMHB fans who are just as anal in picking out place names in the collected works of Messrs Blackwell and Crossley.”
All lyrics Copyright 1985 – 2008 Half Man Half Biscuit.
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Great video from The Guardian of Iain Sinclair walking, talking and reading from his Hackney book with clips from his legendary Super 8 diaries
Stumbled across this interesting article about King Mob by Hari Kunzru in Tate magazine. Kunzru writes about how King Mob developed “an interest in the disruptive anti-art potential of Dada and Surrealism and a hard-edged politics partly derived from nineteenth-century Russian Nihilism. In texts such as Pisarev’s The Destruction of Aesthetics, they found fundamental questions being asked about value, politics and the (lack of ) social function of art.”
Well worth reading the rest of the article here
Although it’s unclear what became of King Mob there is an audiobook version of Iain Sinclair’s Downriver released by a label using the King Mob moniker.