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the spectacular has become monocular. a narrow band of so-called entertainment pushes its way through the eye of a needle and expects us to accept global monoculture. one culture for all. one culture to bind us. one culture to blind us to lived experience.
we resist its baneful bronze eye. we replace monoculture with palimpsest and revel in its wild, untamed diversity. in place of sameness and seperation we assert difference and participation. where there are walls we desire spaces. and where there are spaces we desire access. and when we have access we can begin to play.
above all, we desire pleasure. and to the monoculture that seeks to commodify all that we desire, we respond that its leisure is not our pleasure.
this shit is.
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Scams and scambaits. |
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walkington
Egon Nilson Esq
Hi,
I am Barrister Egon Nilson Esq , a solicitor &
Advocate. Iam the personal attorney to Mr. Michael
Walkington, an American Nationale , who used to work
with African Petroleum Company here in Nigeria.
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Spaces, places and urban traces. |
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new urbanism
Constant Nieuwenhuis
A growing discrepancy can be observed between the standards applied in allocating urban space and the real needs of
the community. Town-planners and architects still tend to think in terms of the four functions of the city as defined
by Le Corbusier in 1933: living, working, traffic and recreation. This oversimplification reflects opportunism rather
than insight into and appreciation of what people actually want today...
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||| Avant Gardening |||
Taking a rake to the discarded leaves of contemporary culture. |
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||| Huddersfield Gem |||
A community group brought together to study, promote and ensure the future of the Queensgate Market Hall building. |
Huddersfield's Queensgate Market Hall may be threatened with demolition. The Huddersfield Gem site
gathers together press releases and updates on the campaign to save it, as well as build up a library of
information about the hall and its creators, supported by a gallery of photographs of this remarkable building.
Monocular Times is hosting the website on behalf of Huddersfield Gem. |
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||| Institute for the Preservation of Bad Art |||
Dedicated to the preservation of awful art in all its forms, from individual misfires to mass produced grotesqueries. |
IPBA has been quiet for too long. There's going to be a whole bunch of work done on the physical gallery space at Ostrich Central, in preparation for a grand reopening ceremony sometime soon. There'll be new exhibitions, details to come later, and a season of events is planned.
The IPBA website will finally get stuffed with all the weird and wonderful images of dire art it is intended to showcase. It's going to get a pretty big design makeover too, to give it a much more individual and distinctive presence. |
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||| Monomusic |||
From futurism to indie, via improv, gabba, onkyo, trash and other tangents... |
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bloc party: ep
D. Konstrukt
Bloc Party have garnered ecstatic reviews in the UK music press for their 3 singles to date. Now they're taking the party across the pond with the release of a new US only EP.
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Protest writings, critiques, calls to action and other alternatives. |
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||| [under the] Counter Culture |||
Counterculture manifestos, wild conspiracies, untutored revelations and other under the counter trickery. |
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Why Food Not Bombs
Food Not bombs
If distributed equally, the world produces enough food to feed everyone. There is an abundance of
food. In fact, in this country, every day, in every city, far more edible food is discarded than is needed to feed
those who do not have enough to eat.
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||| who |||
Organism is a loose collective of concrete personalities, pseudonyms, shared names, hidden talents and fluctuating identities.
personnel include GTM, johnny ostrich, d.konstrukt, RTM, harry gannett, graeme murrell.
you may be invited to join. |
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Monocular Times is an expressive space for the Organism to pursue its explorations.
recognising that space is plastic and therefore mutable, the Organism seeks to influence, manipulate, restructure and rethink. |
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situationism, futurism, dadaism, neoism, fluxus, postmodernism, posthumanism... andmoreagain.
extension of the Organism into new space, exploration of virtual prosthesis, reclamation of digital commons, playtime. |
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physical location is the north of England.
virtual others are code clusters, inhabit spaces and data bodies, digital (super?)highways and shopping malls.
under constant surveillance.
it is impossible to comprehend the full extent of yr self beyond yr flesh.
you are not in control anymore. |
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