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Variant. Special Issue. Spring 2025 __________ “In 2014 Marxist Historian Peter Linebaugh opened his farewell address to the University of Toledo in Counterpunch with “These reflections originate in rage…” before offering up a dictionary definition of rage as “poetic or prophetic enthusiasm”. A reference to his former tutor E.P Thompson reminds us that the initial
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Anthony Davies and Simon Ford. Art Monthly Issue 213. February 1998
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An occasional project space and online forum set up with Pauline van Mourik Broekman in 2004 with an invite to 30 friends and associates to form a core organising group (Invite re-published as ‘What a waste’ in Frozen Tears III, Article Press 2007) . Initially conceived as self-financing, the model was regarded as para-institutional, drawing
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Anthony Davies and Simon Ford. The Academy and The Corporate Public (Ed. Stephan Dillemuth). Permanent Press 2002
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Anthony Davies. Mute Magazine. Issue 14. The Space Issue. Summer/Autumn 1999
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Co-founded with Iain Boal, Gillian Boal, Pauline van Mourik Broekman and Howard Slater in September 2011 after a scoping period going back to early 2010. Against a backdrop of austerity cuts and threats posed to numerous archive collections, libraries, social/community centres and feminist/women’s spaces, an international meeting was called to determine a response. ‘Archiving From
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Rosa Kerosene. Mute Publishing. Fall 2008 ______The journal features an interview with John Barker, a conversation between Tiziana Terranova and Marc Bousquet and essays by Massimo De Angelis, David Graeber, Silvia Federici, Stewart Martin. The main topics are the current crisis in the financial markets, the neoliberalisation of education, feminist and materialist critiques of immaterial
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A series of weekly online meetings coinciding with the outbreak of the Covid 19 Pandemic in March 2020 up until August 2020. Set up with Sheyla Amelo and Marcus (Batata) de Silva, it pulled together an international network of activists, educators and writers from Latin America and Europe.
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“It’s the day that the governor of the Bank of England has announced a decade of sobriety and they’re there, having a drink in the Plough in Central London. It’s the day of the big cutbacks announced by the ConLib coalition as part of the British Government’s annual spending review. Maybe they should begin with
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Mute Magazine 29 (The Precarious Issue). February 2005. ______ “Two situations, both critical and insoluble. One is the total worthlessness of contemporary art. The other is the impotence of the political class in front of Le Pen. The two situations are exchangeable, and their solutions are transferable. Indeed, the inability to offer any political alternative
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Centre for Useless Splendour, Kingston University, London, 2009 ________ “Ian Hunt: Anthony Davies is an independent writer and researcher who has focused on structural political questions about art and culture: specifically how art functions within capitalism as it has mutated. Benedict Seymour, who has been involved with mute magazine, is also a writer and researcher,
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Anthony Davies and Simon Ford. Art Monthly. Issue 223, February 1999
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Series of workshops and related publications by Anthony Davies, Nils Norman and Howard Slater together with the students of Walls and Space and other participating students from art schools in Germany and Austria, plus invited guests.
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Mute Magazine. Issue 14. The Space Issue. Summer/Autumn 1999 _____ ” The Carnival Against Capitalism – J18 – was a day of protest that took place in 43 countries to coincide with the G8 summit in Cologne on June 18th. The co-ordinates for this event can be traced back to 1997/98 when a coalition of
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Mute Magazine 2:5, April 2007 __________ “In March 2006, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona (MACBA), flagship ‘progressive art institution’, staged the second part of Another Relationality, a conference and workshop project examining the legacy of institutional critique and the new social and political functions of art. The event included presentations from sociologist Maurizio Lazzarato,
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Anthony Davies. Institute of Network Cultures. My Creativity. November 16-18, 2006 (Unpublished Talks)
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