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Images from the current Ithell Colquhoun exhibition at Tate St Ives:
(i) Kabbalistic Tree of Life (ii) Untitled (intersex figure) (iii) La cathédrale engloutie (detail) (iv) The Sunset Birth
(i) Kabbalistic Tree of Life (ii) Untitled (intersex figure) (iii) La cathédrale engloutie (detail) (iv) The Sunset Birth
I was prompted to write this blog post by a post on the Surrey Medieval site this morning. In the course of composing I noticed I'd first shared this image with accompanying commentary on the old 'Bird site' on 7/2/2019 - exactly seven years ago today thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/s...
February 7, 2026 at 1:17 PM
I was prompted to write this blog post by a post on the Surrey Medieval site this morning. In the course of composing I noticed I'd first shared this image with accompanying commentary on the old 'Bird site' on 7/2/2019 - exactly seven years ago today thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/s...
Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and John Heartfield
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Proletarian Modernism and the Politics of Emotion: On Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and John Heartfield | Modernism / Modernity Print+
The spirited defense of autonomous art by Theo van Doesburg, Hans Arp, and Kurt Schwitters and their denunciation of “proletarian” as a symptom of everything wrong with politically engaged art attest to the deep divides that haunted the culture and society of the Weimar Republic.[1] Their manifesto presented formal innovation as the conduit to aesthetic autonomy and celebrated
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February 3, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and John Heartfield
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modernismmodernity.org/articles/hak...
On Franz Wilhelm Seiwert
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churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the...
The Cross-Examination of Christianity
Rida Vaquas on Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, the working poor, and the Cross.
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February 3, 2026 at 9:27 PM
On Franz Wilhelm Seiwert
churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the...
churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the...
When I first saw this image of Littywood moated manor (Lvtiude in 1086), I thought, "Henge!" David Horovitz, in his survey of Staffordshire place-names (2003) thinks it may have developed from a prehistoric earthwork. Focus for an array of church and manor alignments, its name is 'puzzling'
January 25, 2026 at 8:40 PM
When I first saw this image of Littywood moated manor (Lvtiude in 1086), I thought, "Henge!" David Horovitz, in his survey of Staffordshire place-names (2003) thinks it may have developed from a prehistoric earthwork. Focus for an array of church and manor alignments, its name is 'puzzling'
First ring-necked parakeets I've ever heard at Southampton Common today. Didn't see any, though. Already seen in the last year at Riverside Park/Woodmill and Mayfield Park
January 25, 2026 at 4:10 PM
First ring-necked parakeets I've ever heard at Southampton Common today. Didn't see any, though. Already seen in the last year at Riverside Park/Woodmill and Mayfield Park
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Rhyme "describing" local vilages believed to be written by Shakespeare after he’d lost in a drinking contest at Bidford:
Piping Pebworth, dancing Marston,
Haunted Hillborough, and hungry Grafton,
With Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford,
Beggar’s Broom and drunken Bidford.
#FolkloreSunday
Piping Pebworth, dancing Marston,
Haunted Hillborough, and hungry Grafton,
With Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford,
Beggar’s Broom and drunken Bidford.
#FolkloreSunday
January 25, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Rhyme "describing" local vilages believed to be written by Shakespeare after he’d lost in a drinking contest at Bidford:
Piping Pebworth, dancing Marston,
Haunted Hillborough, and hungry Grafton,
With Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford,
Beggar’s Broom and drunken Bidford.
#FolkloreSunday
Piping Pebworth, dancing Marston,
Haunted Hillborough, and hungry Grafton,
With Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford,
Beggar’s Broom and drunken Bidford.
#FolkloreSunday
Guerilla Birdsong (Feat. Ronnie Ronalde)
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Guerilla Birdsong
YouTube video by paulglink
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January 20, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Guerilla Birdsong (Feat. Ronnie Ronalde)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xikS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xikS...
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Applying historical materialism, ‘the conceptual expression of the objective social structure of capitalist society’, to non-capitalist societies naturalises capitalist social relations, mistaking purely historical categories (the economy) for ‘eternally valid ones’ www.academia.edu/39882309/Awa...
January 4, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Applying historical materialism, ‘the conceptual expression of the objective social structure of capitalist society’, to non-capitalist societies naturalises capitalist social relations, mistaking purely historical categories (the economy) for ‘eternally valid ones’ www.academia.edu/39882309/Awa...
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December 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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‘As Adorno saw it, Surrealist art had been compromised by postwar conditions: made of “world-rubble”, the montages of Surrealism created only “nature morte”; “After the European catastrophe the Surrealist shocks lost their force.”’
Hal Foster on Surrealism v. fascism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster on Surrealism v. fascism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster · Tightrope of Hope: Surrealism v. Fascism
The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned...
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December 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
‘As Adorno saw it, Surrealist art had been compromised by postwar conditions: made of “world-rubble”, the montages of Surrealism created only “nature morte”; “After the European catastrophe the Surrealist shocks lost their force.”’
Hal Foster on Surrealism v. fascism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster on Surrealism v. fascism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Liminal topographies: the guide post at Wheely Down which may have inspired the eponymous Richard Thompson song and the nearby Bronze Age barrow, implicated with UFO landing sites and an epic cross-country trip of Fairport Convention. In Northern Earth, Issue 182 northernearth.co.uk/product/nort...
December 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Liminal topographies: the guide post at Wheely Down which may have inspired the eponymous Richard Thompson song and the nearby Bronze Age barrow, implicated with UFO landing sites and an epic cross-country trip of Fairport Convention. In Northern Earth, Issue 182 northernearth.co.uk/product/nort...
T. W. Adorno likened his encounter with Ernst Bloch's first major work, The Spirit of Utopia (Geist der Utopie), to his memory of reading a grimoire as a child. Reading this piece offers other implications to Adorno's concept of mediation: for every mediation a medium!
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
T. W. Adorno likened his encounter with Ernst Bloch's first major work, The Spirit of Utopia (Geist der Utopie), to his memory of reading a grimoire as a child. Reading this piece offers other implications to Adorno's concept of mediation: for every mediation a medium!
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
To be the midpoint of triple Nature, to move all things,
You attach the soul and diffuse it through adapted members;
and Soul, cut in two, has globed its motion in two orbs,
goes forth to return to itself, turns about the depth
of mind, and curves the heavens to a like pattern - Boethius
You attach the soul and diffuse it through adapted members;
and Soul, cut in two, has globed its motion in two orbs,
goes forth to return to itself, turns about the depth
of mind, and curves the heavens to a like pattern - Boethius
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
To be the midpoint of triple Nature, to move all things,
You attach the soul and diffuse it through adapted members;
and Soul, cut in two, has globed its motion in two orbs,
goes forth to return to itself, turns about the depth
of mind, and curves the heavens to a like pattern - Boethius
You attach the soul and diffuse it through adapted members;
and Soul, cut in two, has globed its motion in two orbs,
goes forth to return to itself, turns about the depth
of mind, and curves the heavens to a like pattern - Boethius
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…and another photo of this stone with the rest of the stone row (towards sunset this evening) #StandingStoneSunday
September 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
…and another photo of this stone with the rest of the stone row (towards sunset this evening) #StandingStoneSunday
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Tallest stone of the Waen Oer stone row looking out over Cardigan Bay to the distant mountains of the Lleyn Peninsula. An odd-shaped stone with odd cigar-shaped natural markings for #StandingStoneSunday
September 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Tallest stone of the Waen Oer stone row looking out over Cardigan Bay to the distant mountains of the Lleyn Peninsula. An odd-shaped stone with odd cigar-shaped natural markings for #StandingStoneSunday
"Maass! But the majik wavus has elfun anon meshes.
And Simba the Slayer of his Oga is slewd" (FW 203).
‘maji’, ‘wavu’, ‘elfu’, and ‘simba’ are all Kiswahili words, meaning, respectively, water, net, a thousand, and lion/warrior - elfun anon becomes 1001
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And Simba the Slayer of his Oga is slewd" (FW 203).
‘maji’, ‘wavu’, ‘elfu’, and ‘simba’ are all Kiswahili words, meaning, respectively, water, net, a thousand, and lion/warrior - elfun anon becomes 1001
artefactsofwriting.com/2020/10/10/f...
Finnegans Wake/Nakshi Kantha
Credit: Niaz Zaman, The Art of Kantha Embroidery (1995), 93. 1. For all his openness to the unpredictable, James Joyce could never have imagined that the word ‘googling’, one of many he…
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September 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Maass! But the majik wavus has elfun anon meshes.
And Simba the Slayer of his Oga is slewd" (FW 203).
‘maji’, ‘wavu’, ‘elfu’, and ‘simba’ are all Kiswahili words, meaning, respectively, water, net, a thousand, and lion/warrior - elfun anon becomes 1001
artefactsofwriting.com/2020/10/10/f...
And Simba the Slayer of his Oga is slewd" (FW 203).
‘maji’, ‘wavu’, ‘elfu’, and ‘simba’ are all Kiswahili words, meaning, respectively, water, net, a thousand, and lion/warrior - elfun anon becomes 1001
artefactsofwriting.com/2020/10/10/f...
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For #StandingStoneSunday, I was going to post one of Clarissa Miles' photos from Stonehenge in 1901. She was the photographer during architect Detmar Blow's operation to straighten Stone 56, and William Gowland's excavations, but instead, here's a passing shepherd and his sheep on the (1/2)
September 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
For #StandingStoneSunday, I was going to post one of Clarissa Miles' photos from Stonehenge in 1901. She was the photographer during architect Detmar Blow's operation to straighten Stone 56, and William Gowland's excavations, but instead, here's a passing shepherd and his sheep on the (1/2)