The appointment of a rightwing Labour drone to any public body is a sure-fire sign that it has been captured by corporate and reactionary interests and will shortly slide into irrelevance. Backwards indeed.
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Suite (212) is on Apple Podcasts! You can find our complete archive here - with new episodes coming soon ...
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Screengrab from Battleship Potemkin
Screengrab from Battleship Potemkin
Screengrab from Battleship Potemkin
Screengrab from Battleship Potemkin
My favorite scene in Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1926) isn't the step sequence, but the funeral for Vakulinchuk on the Odessa docks. It begins with a few mourners, who find his body and a note recounting his heroic death. In the scene, their sadness transforms into revolutionary fervor.
From the Back Catalogue:
‘Back in the USSR’ – Sarah E James on the unwritten story of Eastern Bloc conceptualism
First published in 2006
Read for free now:
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[image: Boris Mikhailov, Untitled from ‘At Dusk’, 1996]
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Text from red pepper magazine which reads: Postcapitalist Cities: Towards a Common Urban Future Oli Mould Manchester University Press Fundamental to any blueprint for revolutionary change is knowing what type of alternative we want. Oli Mould does just this. Drawing upon history, making use of contemporary case studies, Mould illustrates how our urban spaces are shaped by the needs of capitalism but also embody the foundations of a post-capitalist future.
Big thanks to @redpeppermag.bsky.social for highlighting my new book Postcapitalist Cities in the latest issue! It’s in some very esteemed company.
Remember, if you want to buy it, go to the MUP website and use code AUTHOR50 for 50% off
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The War Game (1966)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
Privilege (1967)
Punishment Park (1971)
Images from the films of the remarkable director Peter Watkins - RIP
The War Game (1966)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
Privilege (1967)
Punishment Park (1971)
For paying subscribers, here is Juliet's article (originally published in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social) about LightForms' Future Cities of the Past exhibition, which used AI to turn Futurist and Constructivist designs into animated cityscapes.
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From the archive: our last episode in December 2021, when Juliet talked to @hekale.bsky.social and Owen Hatherley about why Suite (212) was finishing (or, as it turned out, on extended hiatus) www.patreon.com/posts/end-po...
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Section of an agenda for the next episode of Suite (212), looking at why the programme stopped in December 2021 amidst funding difficulties and the end of Corbyn's Labour, and why we're bringing it back now, with Starmer's Labour in power in the UK, Trump's second term in the US, the rise and fall of various far-right regimes and a cultural context changed by the pandemic, AI, changes to the social media, and the ongoing collapse of the public sphere.
We will return soon - with an episode on why we're returning in 2026. Plans are already afoot ...
From the archive: our last episode in December 2021, when Juliet talked to @hekale.bsky.social and Owen Hatherley about why Suite (212) was finishing (or, as it turned out, on extended hiatus) www.patreon.com/posts/end-po...
Suite (212) is returning - but we need your support! Please subscribe to our Patreon - we'd love to start recording new shows for you soon ...
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