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The Light That Burns So Very Bright: A Playlist For MAGA Erasure

The victims of US racism had revealed to them the truth of their society. In refining that knowledge into music, they built some of the great human and artistic monuments of the age.
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Timothy Morton's Hell Throwing a Wrench of 'What the Fuck' into the Machinery
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William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: An Immersion
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Chaoskampf, Complexity and the Twisting Snake in William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job
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Ithell Colquhoun: Mantic Stains, Sex & Surrealism
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William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: An Immersion
Philip Hoare's latest book sees Blake inspire an army of admirers from Wilde and Joyce through to David Bowie. Minor characters like W. G. Robertson and…
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Andy Wilson
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Neither Muggletonian nor Moravian but Blakean: A Critique of Keri Davies
Keri Davies is a Blake scholar, determined to dismiss Blake's radical, dissenting posture, turning him instead into a small businessman of orthodox…
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Brian Collier
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Chaoskampf, Complexity and the Twisting Snake in William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job
Blake's Job has long been recognised as a hymn to an apocalyptic transformation of the self, but there are hints too of of acceptance of the role of…
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Andy Wilson
William Blake: England's Radical Prophet and Visionary
Watch now (53 mins) | An introduction to Blake given by Andy Wilson at St Luke’s Community Centre, Islington, London, on 24th Nov 2021, for the…
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Andy Wilson
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William Blake's Universe: Blake at the Fitzwilliam
In this new exhibition, Blake is shown alongside Europeans who also turned to spirituality in response to war, revolution and political turbulence.
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Andy Wilson
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William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: An Immersion
Philip Hoare's latest book sees Blake inspire an army of admirers from Wilde and Joyce through to David Bowie. Minor characters like W. G. Robertson and…
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Andy Wilson
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RBE 40 Years Later: Ruach Demos
After a pause from 1982 to 2025, recent technology has made me interested again in the kind of electronica inspired equally by Lee Perry and the…
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Andy Wilson
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A Short History of The Traveller in the Evening
Listen now | Conor grills The Traveller in the Evening (Andy Wilson). What leads a person to try to combine Surrealism, William Blake and Christian…
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Andy Wilson
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Conor Kostick
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Neither Muggletonian nor Moravian but Blakean: A Critique of Keri Davies
Keri Davies is a Blake scholar, determined to dismiss Blake's radical, dissenting posture, turning him instead into a small businessman of orthodox…
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Brian Collier
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Whatever Happened to the Revolutionary Left #3: From Workerism to Broke, 1945-1985 (Part Three: Collapse of the SWP and Decline of the Far…
Listen now (81 mins) | The final episode in a series about the rise and fall of the revolutionary left, Andy and John detail the collapse of the far…
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Andy Wilson
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john game
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Whatever Happened to the Revolutionary Left #2: From Workerism to Broke, 1945-1985 (Part Two: Ouverism and the Rise of the New Left)
Listen now | Part Two of a three-part series. Andy Wilson and John Game discuss the impact of the Bolshevik Revolution, and the growth of the far left…
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Blake Resources
Bring Me My Bow of Burning Gold
Tim Morton's writings are straight out of Blake
The Complete Poetry and Prose of WIlliam Blake
David Erdman's collection of Blake's work.
The Blake Archive
A superb resource collecting Blake's texts and images
Hell's Printing Press
The Blog of the Blake Archive and Blake Quarterly
The Blake Society
Blake-related events and information
Blake: An Illustrated Quaterly
Blake Journal
Global Blake
An international network of scholars working on William Blake
Zoamorphosis
The Reception of William Blake
General
Allen Ginsberg Project
A home to Ginsbergians, Allenophiles and Ginsbergers
Bureau of Lost Culture
Broadcasting Rare Countercultural Stories and Oral Testimonies
UbuWeb
Web of Ubu
Thomas Merton Centre
Home of the Thomas Merton Society
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Whatever Happened to the Revolutionary Left #1: From Workerism to Broke, 1945-1985 (Part One: General Introduction)
Andy Wilson talks to fellow former SWP activist John Game about the 60s & 70s, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the Miners Strike and the death of…
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Andy Wilson
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john game
Ithell Colquhoun: Mantic Stains, Sex & Surrealism
The otherwise splendid Ithell Colquhoun show at the Tate St Ives underplays the affinity between the occult and Surrealist sides to Colquhoun's…
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Andy Wilson
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On MAGA Indifference: A Reply to Daniel Pinchbeck
Daniel Pinchbeck asks his MAGA-supporting followers why they are indifferent to facts and arguments, and why they see everything in black and white. I…
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Just Say 'Non': Nazism, Narcissism and Boyd Rice
Published 15 years ago, this review of Boyd Rice's peurile book is interesting despite the fact that the people who supported him have since gone…
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Phil Smith's Eco-Eerie & Occupy's Haunted Generation
Listen now | A new book from Phil Smith offers a chance to consider Mark Fisher's hauntological legacy and the politics of life lived without a future…
Dance to Your Nobodaddy: Tríd an bpoll gan bun at Sadler's Wells
Folk musician Sam Amidon and Michael Keegan-Dolan's Teaċ Daṁsa's new piece, inspired by Blake's divine dad-gone-bad, Nobodaddy, tells stories of…
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Andy Wilson
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White Too Long by Robert P. Jones
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Oneiric Figurations
Oneiric Figurations
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