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Die
Sonne: The Sun
David Appleman
A personal uncovering of the Nazi extermination of 'mental defectives,
the incurably ill/insane, criminals and Jews', through the exploration
of the life of pioneering artist Elfriede Lohse-W?chtler.
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Women Against
Fundamentalisms
Interview with
Gita Sahgal
Robin Sen interviews
Gita Sahgal, former member of Southall Black Sisters and Women Against
Fundamentalisms, covering: new Labour's disaster of single faith
schools, Blair's shift in focus from racial to religious minorities,
the influence of Christianity within the state system, religious
revival and the growth of fundamentalist movements.
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Cultural
Bulimia
John
Beagles and Dave Beech
Why are some examples of culture more valued than others? Who or
what gives them value? Do cultural objects contain value, or is
it always bestowed upon them by the activities of viewers, or perhaps
by the activities of a small portion of viewers, an elite?
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Anti-Semitism,
Zionism, and the Palestinians
Noam
Chomsky
Begining
with a personal account of his own experiences of anti-Semitism
growing up and working in the US, he asserts that such anti-Semitism
is no longer prevalent though its spectre is mobilised in an attempt
to silence anti-Zionist criticism. He then turns to the problems
of US-Israel and Palestine and the current Intifada, exposing the
extent of US military and financial support for Israel's brutal
occupation of Palestine. He concludes by exposing the Oslo Process
as an attempt to establish a South African Apartheid styled neo-colonial
dependency for the Palestinians.
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Communities
in Resistance
Michael
Cropley
Working as
a volunteer human rights observer in Zapatista communities in Chiapas,
Mexico, Cropley documents their inspiring system of grass-roots
democracy and all that it has achieved. He concludes with the threat
of eviction of many Zapatista villages due to the strategic and
economic interests of transnational corporations and US & Mexican
governments.
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Zine & Comic Reviews
Mark
Pawson
Another bumper crop
of print creations, especially small ones: Found magazine, Half-Wit,
Angry Youth Comix, Natural Born, Close Your Eyes, Switch on Your
Brain, The Shadow Shop, Tortillas: A glow in the dark book of miracles,
Lost Pet Posters, Snacks, Mail for Funtastic United Nations, Pocko,
Out of Science, Neomu, More books about the Transmission and Food,
Please bury your finds so others can discover them, The Thames pH
book. *Please send copies of free publications for review in issue
18.
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www.mpawson.demon.co.uk
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Lost
in France
Ian
Brotherhood
A
derive from the Great Unwashed for Brotherhood - an escalating journey
through alienation, panic and paranoia.
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Concrete
Social Interventions
Interview
with Pascale Jeannèe of the artists group WochenKlausur
Interview with Pascale Jeann?e of the artists' group WochenKlausur,
discussing their practice and the challenge of setting social processes
in motion instead of leaving traditional art objects behind. Concludes
with WochenKlausur's current project in Castlemilk, Glasgow which
seeks to establish a self-administered social space for young girls.
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Out
for the Night
Martha
Brophy
Highlights the outstanding
work of MOJO (Miscarriages of Justice Organisation), set up to campaign
for innocent people in prison fighting for their freedom. This initiative
comes from those who have suffered not those in power!
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Making Waves
Martha Brophy
The disgraceful
closure of Govanhill swimming pool by Glasgow City Council, and
the local community's courageous fight to save their pool and create
a healthy living centre.
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Cube
culture: Exploding the frames of cinema in Bristol
Ben
Slater
The Cube,
alternative cinema collective and basis for a much wider range of
activities, re-opens. Another great example of the achievements
of self initiated, independent collectives.
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http://www.cubecinema.com
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The
Project meets The Office: Managerialism in UK Plc.
Paul
Taylor
Highlights
how a malign form of managerialism has eviscerated traditional Labour
Party values, and how it is committing similar harm upon our Universities
and the few remaining 'free' cultural areas.
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This Year's
Module
Peter Suchin
Book
review of 'The New Idea of a University'. Examines the crisis in
British education, where the University as a place in which critical
thought has been encouraged and protected from the whims of the
market place has been pulverised.
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Tired
of the Soup du Jour? Some Problems with 'New Formalism'
Nick Evans
'Why is it that whilst
the world outside spirals in ever tighter circles of terror and repression,
artists retreat further into a hermetic world of abstraction, formalism,
deferred meanings and latent spiritualism?'
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City
of Culture: We mean it literally
John Gray
Imagine Belfast's
failed European City, Capital of Culture bid, arts organisations'
20% cut in core funding from Belfast City Council, and a shift to
an unexplained 'outreach' model of funding which threatens a tribalisation
of arts provision in Belfast.
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Notes on Events
Through the Looking Glass; Leigh French
Update on Variant's struggles with the Scottish Arts Council and
glowing report by Andrew Brighton of Tate Modern. Also, the detrimental
effects of the corporatisation of arts funding, as evidenced at
the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
Centre for Contemporary Armaments; Gair Dunlop
Yet more disheartening evidence of the corporatisation of arts funding,
this time CCA, Glasgow playing host to the proliferators of weapons
of mass destruction.
No Matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail Spectacularly; Daniel
Jewesbury
The demise of 'new media centre' Arthouse, Dublin and the failure
of subsequent 'development' programmes to learn from past mistakes
- notably, Imagine Belfast's instrumentalised approach to culture
and their failed bid to be Capital of Culture 2008.
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