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Seth Dresden Wheeler
@sethnotes.bsky.social
Researching for MayDay Rooms (London) & the Working Class Movement Library (Salford)
Publishing with https://agitpress.net/
Experimental politics & culture
At war with the planetary work machine since 1974 ☭
Slowly writing a book about the ‘Global 1977’
Pinned
@jamsqu.bsky.social and my introduction to agitpress.net’s

‘A Thousand Little Machines- A/Traverso and the movement of 77’

Enjoy! ❤️🖤👇🔥www.e-flux.com/notes/593806...es
A Thousand Little Machines - Notes - e-flux
Introduction to A Thousand Little Machines: A/traverso and the Movement of ’77 (Agit Press, 2024).
www.e-flux.com
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A month in Bologna with @sethnotes.bsky.social: archives, Bifo, Sonic Belligeranza records ft AAA, psychographic walking tours with DJ Balli & The Mekons, and the excellent company of @grafton9.net

Monday I return to London for my dissertation write up - sad!
June 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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DOPE Magazine 30 - Summer 2025
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‘… Do They Think Guitars and Microphones are Just Fucking Toys?’ *

by Seth Dresden Wheeler (@sethnotes.bsky.social)
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Article: 👉 dopemag.org/articles-1/-do-they-think-guitars-and-microphones-are-just-fucking-toys-
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Support: 👉 dopemag.org/support 👈
‘… Do They Think Guitars and Microphones are Just Fucking Toys?’ * — DOPE Magazine
On the 4th of September 1976, the Sex Pistols made their television debut, performing Anarchy in the UK on a late-night music show. Before the first chords were even struck, a youn...
dopemag.org
May 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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FANZINET
mappatura della Rete delle Fanzine italiane originate dalla subcultura punk/nuovo rock negli anni 80.
www.paolopalmacci.it/capitmundi/f...
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FanziNet: anaLogikal Knot Map V. 1.77
Mappa delle fanzine italiane punk e post punk degli anni 80
www.paolopalmacci.it
May 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Get involved! 👇❤️🖤

maydayrooms.org/anarcho-punk...
April 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM

Flogging run-off, stapled zines,
collated on the window sill
Twenty pences in my jeans,
cash goes to the printing bill

Collated on the window sill,
written with a young fan’s passion
Cash goes to the printing bill
and booze and fags and anti-fashion


from Lighting Rigged by Janine Booth
April 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I love this photo

Lydon and Sidney in Berlin 1977

John stares down the camera -dead cold & dead cool- he’s stood directly in front of a ‘wanted anarchists’ poster -the poster offering a cash reward for information that may lead to the capture of the R.A.F - Sid swigs from a bottle …
March 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Book Talk - Wages of Dreamwork at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social
Saturday April 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
housmans.com/event/book-t...
London event with Stevphen Shukaitis and Joanna Figiel to the shop to discuss "The Wages of Dreamwork"
March 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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On this day in 1871, French troops sided with the people that they were sent to repress against the generals and the oligarchs who sought to dominate them. This set off a revolutionary chain reaction that changed the course of history.

Such things do happen.

crimethinc.com/arch18
March 18, 1871: The Birth of the Paris Commune
A narrative recounting how the revolutionary Paris Commune got underway 147 years ago on this day.
crimethinc.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Eternal
Artisans and communists, laborers and anarchists, took over the city of Paris and established the Commune on this day in 1871.
March 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
In good company

Boycott Watkins Media

A Statement of Solidarity Signed by Authors and Affiliates of Repeater and Zer0 Books 👇

xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/b...
Boycott Watkins Media A Statement of Solidarity Signed byAuthors and Affiliates of Repeater and Zer0 Books
Over the last few weeks, Watkins Media has faced criticism in light of a report from former staff about the suppression of pro-Palestinian sentiment at its imprints, Zer0 Books and Repeater Books. …
xenogothic.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Archivio Autonomia / Radio di Movimento
Materiale proveniente da Radio Onda Rossa, Radio Blackout, Radio Alice, Radio Specchio Rosso, Radio Sherwood, Radio Tupac, Radio Faraci, Radio Sud, Radio Alternativa Popolare, Radio Popolare, Radio Città Futura Torino, Canale 96.
archive.org/details/auto...
March 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Our luxuriously bearded keyboard whizz Gareth S. Brown has the first album under his Death-Static moniker released today. Truly gorgeous ambience.
My new miserable ambient album (the first under the name Death-Static and first solo release since 2020) has been released today by sound in silence. You can buy download or hard copies here: soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/time-i...
March 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I’ll be talking at this at MayDay Rooms - Wed 26th - 6.30 pm

Hope to see some of you there 👇❤️🖤
March 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The Call to Arms.

Answered by thousands during the cultural revolt of 1977
March 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
For a decade or two, the music press acted as a popular alternate curriculum, introducing a generation or two to radical politics, wider reading and alternate/submerged histories.

If you weren’t of the class who saw higher education as either guaranteed or a natural birth right-it was invaluable.
March 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A great evening out with the MayDay Rooms crew for the launch party of Mick Jone’s pop culture archive - yes that Mick Jones. A good turn out from the west London punky/reggae milieu (and their kids) with excellent sets by Dennis Bovell and Tessa Pollitt. We danced our fucking socks off
March 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Dub Syndicate - Out Here On The Perimeter (1989-1996).

4 vinyl reissues, an album of new productions, 5CD box set.

Shipping 28.02.2025 → on-u-sound.ffm.to/outhereonthe...
February 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Appel's fellow delegate and hijacker was Berlin's Club #Dada cofounder Franz Jung.

The boat was the Senator Schroder, which has it's own wiki page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator...

Appel's autobiography gives an account fo the journey:
libcom.org/article/auto...
February 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Traumfabrik Via Clavature 20
archive.org/details/trau...

Un viaggio attraverso la Bologna rivoluzionaria degli anni `70
February 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The 1975 track ‘La mela di Odessa (1920)’ by the Italian prog-rock act Area is loosely inspired by Jan Appel’s hijacking of a boat in order to reach Soviet Russia to attend the 3rd World Congress of the Communist International

Prog pirate councilism👇

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf1D...
La mela di Odessa (1920) (Live 1977 @ Teatro Uomo)
YouTube video by Area - Topic
m.youtube.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A great interview between Chuang journal and members of Endnotes Journal- unpacking the history of Endnotes and the international exchange it was part of/helped to facilitate

Well worth the read 👇

chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...
Neither Prophets nor Orphans: An Interview with Endnotes
In the meantime, neither orphans of the labour movement, nor prophets of the communism to come, we participate in the class struggle as it is on a daily basis and as it produces theory.
chuangcn.org
February 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
More archival gold from the MayDay Rooms huge eco-anarchist collection

Pictured👇MayDay’s large collection of Fifth Estate Journals - dating from 1977 to 2004

Actualise Industrial Collapse Motherfuckers!
February 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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February 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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February 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM