ποΈ New podcast episode ποΈ
From In the Mood for Love to Fallen Angels, Wong Kar Wai bends genre into something luminous and hypnotic.
We talk with Anna Warren about time, memory and the βmysterizationβ of everyday life.
π§ Listen on YouTube + SoundCloud linktr.ee/explodingapp...
#WongKarWai
06.08.2025 15:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Stay safe and plan ahead for Pride 2025
As we get ready to host Pride 2025, here's your guide for enjoying the event safely and responsibly.
Itβs expected to be a busy weekend in the city π
Here's your guide for enjoying Pride safely and responsibly, including:
π tips on how to plan ahead
β€οΈβπ©Ή available first aid, medical help or support
π§ββοΈ harm reduction advice
Find out more π www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/news/2025/st...
30.07.2025 13:27 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
βΌοΈ New podcast βΌοΈ
C.L.R. James rejected bureaucracy and insisted that workers organise for themselves.
With Facing Autonomy, we explore Italian Autonomist Marxism and the politics of self-organisation today.
π§ Listen on YouTube + SoundCloud linktr.ee/explodingapp...
#Marxism #Podcast
30.07.2025 15:28 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
βΌοΈ New podcast βΌοΈ
On Aug 9 1969, utopia met the knife.
Mansonβs Family wasnβt an aberration, they were born of the counterculture.
We speak to James Riley (The Bad Trip) on LSD, apocalypse + the dark mirror of the 60s.
π§ Listen on YouTube + SoundCloud - linktr.ee/explodingapp...
#Podcast #Manson
09.07.2025 19:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Our final session before autumn is next week! Come celebrate, reflect, and imagine whatβs next for arts & culture in Brighton & Hove.
π
Tuesday 24 June, 7β9:30pm (Doors 6:30pm)
π The Southern Belle, Hove & online
π Free - www.eventbrite.com/e/defending-...
#WhatsonBrighton #Arts&Culture
20.06.2025 11:28 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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Art & Research Group exploring the avant-garde and radical counterculture.
The Exploding Appendix Podcast relaunches today with Episode 40: βMarx and Poetics β A Live Conversation with Keston Sutherland,β with brand new music intro by Nick Hudson (the one in this reel).
ποΈ Episode out now and every other Wednesday on YouTube and Soundcloud: linktr.ee/explodingapp...
#pod
11.06.2025 15:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
#Fashion #Event #Suit #Gender
02.06.2025 18:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
What is a suit? Join us June 17 with Marren Hager for a night of conversation, craft + critique reimagining the suit through tailoring, sustainability + resistance.
π
Tuesday 17 June, 7β9:30pm (Doors 6:30pm)
π The Southern Belle, Hove & online
π Free www.eventbrite.com/e/subverting...
02.06.2025 18:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Can we design friendship? Join designer & zine-maker Soofiya for an evening of drawing, mapping & rethinking how we connect beyond algorithms & apps.
π
Tuesday 27 May, 7β9:30pm (Doors 6:30pm)
π The Southern Belle, Hove & online
π Free www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-mak...
#Workshop #Creativity
19.05.2025 15:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π At our Defending Arts and Culture next session, we focus on austerity, its effect on the culture of Brighton & Hove, and how we respond.
π
Tue 13 May, 7β9:30pm
π The Southern Belle, Hove and online
Free www.eventbrite.com/e/defending-...
#Brighton #Arts #Culture
08.05.2025 16:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thanks to all who joined us for last nightβs talk on modernism, literature & psychoanalysis; and to Helen Tyson for leading a vital convo on writing, art & politics.
Next week: Defending Arts & Culture in Brighton & Hove, with a panel of unions & arts orgs. www.eventbrite.com/e/1230059504...
07.05.2025 18:22 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
What if reading itself were a radical act? π
From Woolfβs child readers to Freudβs psychoanalysis, Helen Tysonβs new book explores how modernist writers staged the act of reading β and why it mattered.
Join us online and in person on 6 May at 7 pm.
#VirginiaWoolf #Modernism #Psychoanalysis
28.04.2025 12:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Radical Gaming
A new left-wing board game puts players in the role of maniacal plutocrats trying to take over the world. Its creator explains how it responds to the wider phenomenon of βgamified capitalismβ.
A new left-wing board game puts players in the role of maniacal plutocrats trying to take over the world. Its creator, Max Haiven, explains how it responds to the wider phenomenon of βgamified capitalismβ.
14.04.2025 09:00 β π 11 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
The book as an object, a toy, an artefact.
Hannah Fieldβs work on Victorian movable books invites us to reconsider how children have historically played with reading: tearing pages, pulling tabs, and colouring inside (and outside) the lines. +
#BookHistory #Books
07.04.2025 15:59 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
we love a book sale
27.03.2025 22:36 β π 24 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
Brightonβs art scene is struggling: lost spaces, rising costs, a fractured community. How did we get here?
Can artist-led projects rebuild connections where institutions have failed? Letβs explore these questions together next Tuesday!
www.eventbrite.com/e/1230013456...
#BrightonArt #FreeEvent
28.03.2025 11:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Funded PhD project in trans and non-binary inclusion
An opportunity to develop a PhD project around trans and non-binary inclusion within health and social care.
University of Brighton & @CottinghamTrust launch one of the UKβs first PhD scholarships focusing on trans & non-binary inclusionβ β§
The landmark initiative provides an opportunity to advance research that drives equality & transforms lives. Find out more bit.ly/42gt3Gn
16.01.2025 10:07 β π 8 π 7 π¬ 0 π 1
Musicians, artists, theorists, philosophers, dancers, everyday groove-lovers: what does groove mean to you? A feeling? A structure? A way of life?
Tag a friend whoβd have something to say! Letβs get this conversation moving πΊπ¬
#ExplodingAppendix #JoinTheConversation
11.03.2025 18:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
We all live by the clock: work schedules, deadlines, alarms⦠But music follows its own time.
π΅ Does groove give us freedom from capitalist time, or does it keep us in sync with it?
Are we dancing to our own beat or someone elseβs? We would love to know your thoughts!
#MusicDebate #RhythmAndTime
11.03.2025 18:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Groove, Marxism and Music w/ Mark Abel
Explore two key temporal concepts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: the musical time of groove and the social time of capitalism
Weβre exploring this in our next session with Mark Abel, author of "Groove: The Aesthetics of Measured Time".
He explores how groove music relates to modern life, capitalism, and social time.
ποΈ 25 March, 7 pm.
π Online & in person in Brighton, UK
πFree www.eventbrite.com/e/groove-mar...
11.03.2025 18:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
β³πΆ Groove music moves usβbut is it also shaping how we experience time under capitalism?
From work schedules to dance floors, rhythm structures our lives in ways we donβt always notice. Letβs break it down β¬οΈ
#GrooveMusic #TimeAndCapitalism #ExplodingAppendix
11.03.2025 18:10 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
We were so happy to have you and had such a nice conversation together!
11.03.2025 17:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
David Lynchβs world-building didnβt stop at film. His paintings, drawings, and photography expand his eerie, dreamlike storytelling beyond the screen.β¨β¨ We will explore how his art blurs the boundaries between the familiar and the uncanny.
β¨ποΈ 4 Mar, 7 PM.πOnline & The Southern Belle, Hove π Free
24.02.2025 16:02 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Brighton & Hoveβs #LGBTQ+ magazine π³οΈβπβ¨π³οΈββ§οΈ
Pride Community Foundation x @unitedinpride.org.ukβ¨
π¨team@scenemag.co.uk
an AHRC funded project (2021-2024) re-evaluating women's work in archaeology, history and heritage in Britain 1870-1950
Design + type + text. Solidarity forever. Views are my own.πNYC
www.avantgardefestival.de
β¨ June 20-22 2025 β¨
πSchiphorst, Germany
radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
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Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice childrenβs books, and other works of the radical imagination β¨
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Established 2016, worker owned and operated since 2020. Always Carry A Book
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
An independent publisher of radical, leftβwing nonΒβfiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world.
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Political Thought and Intellectual History. Posting from the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought. https://www.polthought.cam.ac.uk
Left-wing journal of ideas covering world politics, global economy, movements, theory, history, culture and more.
Website: https://newleftreview.org
Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy
krisis.eu
Open Access journal for contemporary philosophy (NL/EN)
Published by University of Groningen Press
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Scholarly books from University Presses. News and info from across academia. Part of the Mare Nostrum Group. Based in Harrogate, UK.
a journal of economics, society and culture
http://www.rethinkingmarxism.org
psychoanalysis // critique of political economy // http://yahyamadra.net // coeditor @ Rethinking Marxism //
PhDing on colonial class relations & intellectual history of Marxism in MENA & beyond...
-based in Hamburg-
Resources & open reading groups for collective study of early Critical Theory.
Website: https://ctwgwebsite.github.io/
19th-century German philosophy (mostly Hegel, with a dash of Marx) | Comparative philosophy of race | Africana philosophy | Philosophy of social science
Study and engagement network with a particular focus on Disability Politics & Marxism(s). We hold monthly talks. To join the mailing list, check out our contact page: https://marxismdisability.wordpress.com/Contact
Philosophical journal of the independent Left since 1972.
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