This is a body of works that largely revolve around urban walking. Lived-in psychogeography for post 2010 UK. They are fragmented urban walks caught in a perpetual encounter with a sense of the future never arriving.

Stories From Forgotten Space

Dialogue between artist John Ledger and Leeds-based artist curator, using Greenwich, London as ideal territory in which  to discuss the tangled up nature of personal and societal lost futures, dead ends, and possible closures to the dead ends.

Greenwich

(John Ledger and Michael Hill) walking around old haunts (Around South/West Yorks), conjuring memories, and futures of the past, on the eve of the 2015 Uk General Election. Taking routes where long gone bus routes used to take us.

Lost Bus Routes and Pre-Election Rambles

This is part in a series of map-making’s of meanderings and musings that coincided with decisive events for the wider society. My thoughts on the past (my past),  present, and longings for a future decisively different from the present loosely congregating around these events. This part covers Manchester, Barnsley and London

The Big Smoke (And Mirrors): Stories From Forgotten Space

01 - Mark Fisher - Londonunderlondon Part1

A compilation by Mark Fisher, uploaded here because the original download link expired

“King of Sorrow (Cottonbelly Remix)” – Sade
“Too Much On My Mind” – The Kinks
“Sittin’ Here” – Dizzee Rascal
“I am Sold” – James Blake
“Still Walking” – Throbbing Gristle
“I Made My Excuses and Left” – Pet Shop Boys
“Got To Get Away From Here” – New Age Steppers feat. Ari Up
“Invoices In My Head” – eMMplekz
“Because You’re Frightened” – Magazine
“Liveable Shit” – Sleaford Mods
“Just Who Is the Five O’Clock Hero” – The Jam
“As I Lie In Your Arms” – Annie Anxiety Bandez
“Circle” – Siouxsie and the Banshees
“Gimme Shelter” – The Rolling Stones feat. Merry Clayton

http://k-punk.org/track-listing-for-look-what-fears-done-to-my-body/
k-punk.org/look-what-fears-done-to-my-body-2/

"A new mix, exploring the sadness and frustration in England at the moment, using some recent-ish music and some from further back … The mix ends with a very familiar track, but one I listened to obsessively in the immediate wake of the election defeat, hearing it in a very different way …

This is for the students on my new Popular Modernism modules at Goldsmiths, who produced some amazing work this year …. and for those at the “top” of the Parliamentary Labour Party, none of whom will ever hear it – in any sense …"

July 2015

k-punk: 'look what fear's done to my body' (mark fisher compilation)

Writings From HMS Brexit is an 'absent' performance in a disused pub in the eerie landscape of West Yorkshire. 

1. Glorified Lifeboat - John Ledger (through the [e]motions, on nearby towns and cities)
2. Shattered Exit - Jonathan Butcher
3. The Tale of Two Countries - JD Taylor
4. I am Run By Time - Mere Pseud

The location is a disused pub, looking back over a dislocating time; an erosion of time and place; a vacuum filled by unfulfilled ghosts from the past. Always in homage to the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher, this series of prose speeches is strange due to the absence of the speakers. Only their half-finished endeavors will be visible; half finished pints and coats flung over the seats – as they proceed to dissect a body that has become to be known as ‘Brexit Britain’.

Writings From HMS Brexit

A spoken word piece I ommited from the full Writings From HMS Brexit performance (listen here https://soundcloud.com/theunrealisedproject/writings-from-hms-brexit-1    ). This piece is based around my home town in the early months of 2017.

Ends (Writings From HMS Brexit

Glasgow 2017

Written, produced & recorded by Isis Moray.

22:39

James Butler is joined by author, activist and academic Raj Patel to discuss 'A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things', and explore the relation between climate, capitalism, colonialism – and the future of the planet. http://novaramedia.com/?p=10463

Novara Audio: Radio for a Different Politics

#NovaraFM: Raj Patel: a History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Will Davies, Reader in Political Economy at Goldsmiths, to discuss Economic Science Fictions, dystopia, speculative politics, what neoliberals actually believe, and the fantasies behind Brexit. http://novaramedia.com/?p=10825

#NovaraFM: Exit From Nightmare: Will Davies on Economic Science Fictions

Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn bring you #ACFM, a new show examining the links between left-wing politics and culture, music and experiences of collective joy. In this episode: what is - or was - the counterculture? What is 'Acid Corbynism'? And is expanding consciousness anti-political? You can find the Acid Corbynism project on Facebook. http://novaramedia.com/?p=11481

PRS LICENCE NUMBER: LE-0016481

#ACFM – Trip 1: Out of the Box

Grace (Lyndon Scarfe Remix)

Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the politics of collective joy.

Edited and produced by Olivia Humphreys, Matt Huxley and Matt Phull.

PRS LICENCE NUMBER: LE-0016481

Tracks featured:

Martha and the Vandellas - Dancing in the streets
MFSB - Love is the message
Orbital - Halcyon
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Sun Ra - UFO

Books referenced:

Baruch Spinoza - Ethics
Lynne Segal - Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy.
Barbara Ehrenreich - Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy.
Jeremy Gilbert - Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism.
John Protevi - Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic.
E. P. Thompson - Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism.
Sigmund Freud - Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego.

Novara Media Podcast

#ACFM – Trip 2: Collective Joy

Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn talk intoxication and sobriety: from capitalist prohibition to weekend trippers, from drunk workers to Romantic escapes from bourgeois subjectivity, to straightedge and tech-world microdosers. 

PRS LICENCE NUMBER: LE-0016481

http://novaramedia.com/?p=14891

#ACFM – Trip 6: Intoxication and Sobriety

The Retro Bar at The End of the Universe is an artist-led thinking and doing collective. Roughly originating in 2014, it formed from a sense of stuck-ness, within our hauntological and 'non stop-inertia' [Ivor Southwood] times. Originally evading the command to materialise within the steroid-pumped gentrification/photoshop-isation of a 'cult of self-belief' Britain, the collective is now working on other ways of engaging and acting, that try not be fast food for a neoliberal appetite. 

Our Soundcloud page contains projects from individual collective members, and will also begin to feature podcasts and other collaborative works in the coming year.

Writings From HMS Brexit

The Retro Bar at The End of the Universe

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