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Philip K. Dick : 2-3-74

30/07/2013

'Plastic explosives had been used to open his filing cabinets and many important manuscripts, letters, notes and possessions were missing.' Philip K. Dick's trials continue....

The Birth of a Police State

27/07/2013

The UK government is about to pass legislation which will make any behaviour perceived to potentially ‘cause nuisance or annoyance’ a criminal offence....

The Strange Conservatism of Dead Space

26/07/2013

It is all too seductive to think that cynicism is insight and pessimism is practicality, but while it is easy to hurl horror and splatter at the gamer, it is taboo to make a case for progress or the...

And Phil Kept Falling Pt. 2

22/07/2013

A new audience of potheads, tripsters and scene makers had no doubt that, when it came to psychedelic science fiction, Phil was the man...

Ecocide and the Soul of a Nation

20/07/2013

Estrangement from nature is estrangement from the landscape of the soul. ...

And Phil Kept Falling

17/07/2013

Berkeley in the early fifties was a hotbed of radical thought and a young Phil stumbled through it with an impish sense of humour alienating Marxists, Trotskyites and ‘free thinkers’ alike with...

A picture of Albert Hofmann's biographers

Mystic Chemist: The LSD Biography of Albert Hofmann

16/07/2013

' a chemist who does not get mystic looking at the wonders of creation that he's researching is not a real chemist' - Albert Hofmann...

Sarah Corbett: Interview (Part 2)

13/07/2013

In part 2 of this interview, Trebuchet's Sarah Corbett speaks to the Craftivist Collective's Sarah Corbett about political art, Tracey Emin and Occupy...

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Woolwich and Terror

06/07/2013

Did you notice how all terrorists used to be Irish? And suddenly, they are all Muslims? Well, they’re not. But if the media agenda is Irish Terror, or Muslim Terror, then it can start to look...

Bosky Man Visits Scarfolk

04/07/2013

I became convinced that the village had a darker secret. I was quite certain that it had its very own coven of witches....

Sarah Corbett: Interview (Part 1)

03/07/2013

In part one of this interview, Trebuchet's Sarah Corbett speaks to the Craftivist Collective's Sarah Corbett about the growth of craftivism, practical issues and how craftivism can change and...

Bloodstock Art Competition Shortlist

02/07/2013

We asked for artwork relating to Bloodstock, and offered two tickets to the festival in return for the best of the bunch. Behold... the shortlist....

The Endless Inferno Under Centralia

02/07/2013

Centralia, less than three hours from Times Square, stands empty. The emissions break through the ground like fists of mustard gas....

And Now Brazil?

29/06/2013

And Now Brazil? Gonzo Politics, Mass Protest and the Standing Man...

Resistanbul: Turkish Protests

22/06/2013

Turkish people do not call these events 'protests'; they call the whole set of events ‘direnis’ which means ‘resistance’ in Turkish....

Henry Diltz Interview [Part 2]

21/06/2013

It was all peace and love; let the universe decide, do it the right way. That’s the way life should be and maybe it will....

Monsanto Info Links

20/06/2013

Information Links on Monsanto and how you can get involved to; Help Local Farmers, Stop Crop Pollution, Promote alternatives to GM crops...

Guerilla Zoo’s James Elphick [Interview]

17/06/2013

May Day, traditionally associated with revelry and mystique - this is what I think the whole event captured, that playful, fantastical element....

Fortune’s Fools

15/06/2013

When questioned by the youth of future generations about how you responded when the earth was burning, will you reply that you went to the mall staring at a glowing electronic box, engaged in...

Henry Diltz, Music Photographer [Interview]

14/06/2013

I photograph t-shirts and I photograph tattoos and I photograph graffiti and people giving the peace sign and people giving the finger. David Crosby was always giving me the finger....

Propeller : The Taming of the Shrew

13/06/2013

Visual gags are played to the hilt, and no stick is left unslapped in order to maintain a zany, high energy atmosphere...

Intersectionality

08/06/2013

Race, class, gender, sexuality, age, geography, identity and the economic inequality our system requires, comes down on women’s lives brutally....

Come as You Are (Hasta la Vista) [FILM]

07/06/2013

Its cocktail of playfulness and poignancy may at times seem a little sweet, but it goes down very smoothly....

What Money Can’t Buy – The Moral Limits of Markets [Review]

05/06/2013

Like all manifestations of human agency, the market is just a tool, a means of negotiating and managing resources. If the markets can corrupt or wreck havoc, it is because we let them. ...

Tyranny of the Reasonable

01/06/2013

Tyranny of the Reasonable: Popular Complacency in an Era of Economic Exploitation and Perpetual War...

Demonstrations Against The Racists This Saturday – Update

30/05/2013

Unite Against Fascism are organising peaceful demonstrations of unity against the racist EDL and the fascist BNP this Saturday...

Mad Dogs and Englishmen?

29/05/2013

The EDL attempt to exploit the murder of Lee Rigby by trying to whip up a storm of hatred against all Muslims....

Bedroom Tax – Pay Up or Pack Up

25/05/2013

The “Bedroom Tax”, which came into force on 1st April 2013 has already been implicated in one suicide and led to an unprecedented increase in applications for emergency housing benefit payments. ...