Videos and Podcasts
Videos and podcasts of various discussions. Updated regularly.
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Michael Tencer: Affirmisms
Fed up with the wholesome goodness that pops magically out of the negation of the negation every time you try it? Try Michael Tencer’s affirmation of the affirmation instead to experience a life crumbling like your teeth in dreams.
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Video Interview with Andy Wilson re. William Blake vs the World
John Higgs recently published his book, William Blake vs the World—a ‘countercultural’ take on Blake’s work, written for a non-academic audience. Here, Conor Kostick interviews Andy Wilson about his review of the book and more generally about Blake’s relevance to the countrculture.
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The Fall and William Blake: Before the Moon Falls
The Fall’s Before the Moon Falls, W.B., Jerusalem and creating a system of your own
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Serge Arnoux: le sexaphysique du texte
Images from Serge Arnoux’s le sexaphysique du texte, 1981.
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Peachy
Sacred to Harpocrates were first fruits of vegetables, lentils, and, above all, the peach tree. His mother was Isis, of course, and we may note that in the Valentinian Pleroma, the primal Mother, the First Thought of the incomprehensible Bythos, is called Sig, ‘silence.’ As the Nag Hammadi text Eugnostos the Blessed relates: “Sophia, his consort, who was called ‘Silence,’ because in reflecting without a word she perfected her Greatness.”
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Bronowski on Blake and Industry
Although Blake’s knowledge of industry was uncertain, his vision of it was not. It is an astonishing vision — Jacob Bronowski on Blake and Industry, and Blake on Jerusalem and Liberty.
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Milton’s L’Allegro on Blake’s Day
To celebrate Blake’s birthday, here is one of his illustrations for Milton’s L’Allegro, along with the poem itself, which seems suited to the mood fo the day.
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The Blake Bloc
Blake Bloc, conceived by Poets, Artists and Photographers and the banner designed by Artist Matthew Couper, brings back visionary and poetic anarchism to the conventional march of protest. Last seen with Blake’s influence, through Ginsberg, on sixties anti-war demonstrations and incorporating the once-proud trade union and suffragette banners of the nineteenth century. Bearing William Blake’s images and his immortal words — ‘Opposition is True Friendship’ — this banner isn’t for the bin afterwards with the pile of placards ! It’s a work of art as much as a protest in the Blakean tradition of William Morris elevating socialist ideals.
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Peter Linebaugh’s Red Round Globe, Hot, Burning
The Irish Independent Left conducted an interview with the historian Peter Linebaugh about his book, Red Round, Globe Hot, Burning, which discusses Blake at several points and makes some excellent observations about him, Thomas Spence, and others, and their relevance to our times.
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Iain Sinclair: Blake’s Radicalism
Iain Sinclair explores the historical background to William Blake’s radical writings. Filmed on the South Bank of the River Thames, Vauxhall, London.
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Ben Watson: EP Thompson’s Blake
A chapter from Ben Watson’s book, Blake in Cambridge. Ben Watson: Blake in Cambridge...
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