Seth Dresden Wheeler
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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’
… by the time the Pistols split - a movement had arisen to answer their call - CRASS lead the way - lighting a touch paper igniting a cultural revolution - the effects still felt today

The CRASS poster below was pasted outside London’s infamous Roxy Club 👇
March 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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
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
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
Cop Killer -1983- Dir.
Roberto Faenza

A criminally forgotten sleaze ball classic.

A serial killer vs tough cop storyline starring Harvey Keitel & .…. Johnny fucking Rotton! Who is … surprisingly good.

Has a great score by Morriconi to boot

m.youtube.com/watch?v=z1U4...
February 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
February 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The Loombreaker - a late 90s/early 00s Mancunian based militant eco news bulletin

No generals but Ludd! No captain but Swing!
February 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
A fine example of American post-situationist engagement within the electoral farce

Beats any burn Bernie could produce …
February 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Runs of ‘Live Wild or Die!, Species Traitor, Treeflesh, a few copies of Resistance - the Journal of the N.American E.L.F’ and a large run of Anarchy- A Journal of Desire Armed - all held in MayDay Room’s huge eco-anarchist collection

Actualise Industrial Collapse motherfuckers!

💚🖤❤️✊🔥
February 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
On this Day -

London’s Antiuniversity opens Feb 12th 1968

The proposed faculty included- Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Stokely Carmichel, C.L.R James …
February 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Unpacking the huge bundle of gifts we recieved while visiting our comrades in Bologna - including an excellent account of late 90s/early 00s hacking and media activism - entitled ‘+KAOS’ given to us by our dear friends at @grafton9.net ❤️🖤✊🔥
January 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Bologna archival haul!

A near full run of the early 2000s anti-industrial society journal ‘Los Amigos De Ludd’ and a cool anthology of Clodo communiques
January 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Bologna, we are with you tomorrow

We have a meeting with uncle Bifo but other than that we are footloose and fancy free

Give me or @jamsqu.bsky.social a shout if you fancy a spritz at Ortica
January 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A review copy of Jasper’s new book -coming out soon on @versobooks.bsky.social - arrived in the post today. I’m only 20 pages in and it’s clarifying a lot I had somehow buried during the soc dem confusions of the last decade. Essential essential reading ❤️🖤✊
January 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Today is Dalston Solidarity Café’s 3rd Anniversary! 🥳

Join Trans Fem Social, Lambeth Mutual Aid, Bristol Sol Café -among others- to a talk about free community space & how we keep them going

Halk Evi, 31-33 Dalston Lane E8 3DF
🥘 Free food from 2 - 8pm
⏰ Discussion- 4 - 6pm
December 14, 2024 at 8:25 AM
5/20

Kirby/Lee Thor run.

No one drew comics like Jack. Big hands, terrible perspectives, bonkers monsters- the king of pop modernism
November 30, 2024 at 3:15 PM
4/20

Burroughs’ Cities of the Red Night

Time travel, the golden age of piracy, fever visions, oodles of opium, raw sex, a high adventure against control
November 30, 2024 at 10:04 AM
3/20
Camatte - This world We Must Leave.

Invariant since 1848 you say?
Ha, invariant since the dawn of time I say.
November 30, 2024 at 9:55 AM
If you’re in London- this is happening tomorrow
November 29, 2024 at 11:26 AM
2/20
Book 2 - in no particular order

Ballestrini’s ‘The Unseen’.

No grammar, no surrender
November 29, 2024 at 11:23 AM
The book will feature Bifo’s encounters with this man and this band 👇👇- among many many others! 🔥
November 27, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Some News

@jamsqu.bsky.social & I are about to commence on a new project with Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, exploring his time in & around New York’s ‘No Wave’ scene of the early ‘80s

The text will reflect on Italy’s autonomists in exile & the global wave of cultural autonomy unleashed by punk’s arrival
November 27, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Here’s a nice pic of our pal Bobby Gillespie holding a copy of the Bifo book that @jamsqu.bsky.social and I edited and that Bobby wrote a preface for.

A few copies are still available to buy via agitpress.net ❤️🖤✊🔥
November 27, 2024 at 6:38 PM