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Seth Dresden Wheeler

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Researching for MayDay Rooms (London) & the Working Class Movement Library (Salford) Publishing with https://agitpress.net/ Experimental politics & culture At war with the planetary work machine since 1974 ☭ Slowly writing a book about the ‘Global 1977’

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Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Nov 22

@jamsqu.bsky.social and my introduction to agitpress.net’s

‘A Thousand Little Machines- A/Traverso and the movement of 77’

Enjoy! ❤️🖤👇🔥www.e-flux.com/notes/593806...es

A Thousand Little Machines - Notes - e-flux

Introduction to A Thousand Little Machines: A/traverso and the Movement of ’77 (Agit Press, 2024).

www.e-flux.com

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · Jun 11

A month in Bologna with @sethnotes.bsky.social: archives, Bifo, Sonic Belligeranza records ft AAA, psychographic walking tours with DJ Balli & The Mekons, and the excellent company of @grafton9.net

Monday I return to London for my dissertation write up - sad!

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Ola Jönsson @madwrist.bsky.social · May 23

DOPE Magazine 30 - Summer 2025
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‘… Do They Think Guitars and Microphones are Just Fucking Toys?’ *

by Seth Dresden Wheeler (@sethnotes.bsky.social)
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Article: 👉 dopemag.org/articles-1/-do-they-think-guitars-and-microphones-are-just-fucking-toys-
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Support: 👉 dopemag.org/support 👈

‘… Do They Think Guitars and Microphones are Just Fucking Toys?’ * — DOPE Magazine

On the 4th of September 1976, the Sex Pistols made their television debut, performing Anarchy in the UK on a late-night music show. Before the first chords were even struck, a youn...

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Archivio Grafton9 @grafton9.net · May 13

FANZINET
mappatura della Rete delle Fanzine italiane originate dalla subcultura punk/nuovo rock negli anni 80.
www.paolopalmacci.it/capitmundi/f...
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FanziNet: anaLogikal Knot Map V. 1.77

Mappa delle fanzine italiane punk e post punk degli anni 80

www.paolopalmacci.it

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Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Apr 8

Thank you comrade!! ❤️

Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Apr 1

Get involved! 👇❤️🖤

maydayrooms.org/anarcho-punk...

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Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Apr 1

…
Flogging run-off, stapled zines, collated on the window sill Twenty pences in my jeans, cash goes to the printing bill

Collated on the window sill, written with a young fan’s passion Cash goes to the printing bill and booze and fags and anti-fashion
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from Lighting Rigged by Janine Booth

Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Mar 24

… by the time the Pistols split - a movement had arisen to answer their call - CRASS lead the way - lighting a touch paper igniting a cultural revolution - the effects still felt today

The CRASS poster below was pasted outside London’s infamous Roxy Club 👇

Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Mar 24

I love this photo

Lydon and Sidney in Berlin 1977

John stares down the camera -dead cold & dead cool- he’s stood directly in front of a ‘wanted anarchists’ poster -the poster offering a cash reward for information that may lead to the capture of the R.A.F - Sid swigs from a bottle …

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Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Mar 19

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minor compositions @minorcompositions.bsky.social · Mar 19

Book Talk - Wages of Dreamwork at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social
Saturday April 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
housmans.com/event/book-t...
London event with Stevphen Shukaitis and Joanna Figiel to the shop to discuss "The Wages of Dreamwork"

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · Mar 18

On this day in 1871, French troops sided with the people that they were sent to repress against the generals and the oligarchs who sought to dominate them. This set off a revolutionary chain reaction that changed the course of history.

Such things do happen.

crimethinc.com/arch18

March 18, 1871: The Birth of the Paris Commune

A narrative recounting how the revolutionary Paris Commune got underway 147 years ago on this day.

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Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Mar 19

From another revolt in France, but nonetheless fitting and true when thinking on the commune -

‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive but to be young was very heaven’

Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Mar 19

Eternal

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Mar 18

Artisans and communists, laborers and anarchists, took over the city of Paris and established the Commune on this day in 1871.

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Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Mar 18

In good company

Boycott Watkins Media

A Statement of Solidarity Signed by Authors and Affiliates of Repeater and Zer0 Books 👇

xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/b...

Boycott Watkins Media A Statement of Solidarity Signed byAuthors and Affiliates of Repeater and Zer0 Books

Over the last few weeks, Watkins Media has faced criticism in light of a report from former staff about the suppression of pro-Palestinian sentiment at its imprints, Zer0 Books and Repeater Books. …

xenogothic.com

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Archivio Grafton9 @grafton9.net · Mar 13

Archivio Autonomia / Radio di Movimento
Materiale proveniente da Radio Onda Rossa, Radio Blackout, Radio Alice, Radio Specchio Rosso, Radio Sherwood, Radio Tupac, Radio Faraci, Radio Sud, Radio Alternativa Popolare, Radio Popolare, Radio Città Futura Torino, Canale 96.
archive.org/details/auto...

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Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Mar 12

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The Declining Winter @thedecliningwinter.bsky.social · Feb 10

Our luxuriously bearded keyboard whizz Gareth S. Brown has the first album under his Death-Static moniker released today. Truly gorgeous ambience.

Gareth S. Brown @garethsbrown.bsky.social · Feb 10

My new miserable ambient album (the first under the name Death-Static and first solo release since 2020) has been released today by sound in silence. You can buy download or hard copies here: soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/time-i...

Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Mar 12

Sniffing Glue - 1977

Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Mar 12

I’ll be talking at this at MayDay Rooms - Wed 26th - 6.30 pm

Hope to see some of you there 👇❤️🖤

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Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Mar 12

The Call to Arms.

Answered by thousands during the cultural revolt of 1977

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Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Mar 4

For a decade or two, the music press acted as a popular alternate curriculum, introducing a generation or two to radical politics, wider reading and alternate/submerged histories.

If you weren’t of the class who saw higher education as either guaranteed or a natural birth right-it was invaluable.

Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Mar 1

It was fantastic. There was a set from Jerry Dammers also. Exhibition is also great - as is the accompanying publication - check it out when you’re down

Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Mar 1

A great evening out with the MayDay Rooms crew for the launch party of Mick Jone’s pop culture archive - yes that Mick Jones. A good turn out from the west London punky/reggae milieu (and their kids) with excellent sets by Dennis Bovell and Tessa Pollitt. We danced our fucking socks off

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Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social · Feb 27

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On-U Sound @onusound.bsky.social · Jan 22

Dub Syndicate - Out Here On The Perimeter (1989-1996).

4 vinyl reissues, an album of new productions, 5CD box set.

Shipping 28.02.2025 → on-u-sound.ffm.to/outhereonthe...

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Dada @dadaists.bsky.social · Feb 27

Appel's fellow delegate and hijacker was Berlin's Club #Dada cofounder Franz Jung.

The boat was the Senator Schroder, which has it's own wiki page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator...

Appel's autobiography gives an account fo the journey:
libcom.org/article/auto...

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mazzetta @mazzetta.bsky.social · Feb 24

#Bifo e #Gaza.
Se non conoscete Bifo, fatevi un regalo.
www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/02/19/e...

Esce "Pensare dopo Gaza", libro di Bifo Berardi sulla ferocia e la terminazione dell'umano. Intervista con l'autore - Il Fatto Quotidiano

Franco “Bifo” Berardi è nato a Bologna nel 1949. Filosofo per formazione, attivista, ha partecipato negli anni ’70 all’esperienza delle radio libere, e ha lanciato la rivista A/traverso. Ha collaborat...

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