John-Robin Bold

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John-Robin Bold

John-Robin Bold

@JohnRobinBold

electronic art music, classical guitar & website-specific art Between artistic tradition & online reality.

Manchester, UK Katılım Mart 2021
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Living Freedom
Living Freedom@LivingFreedomUK·
A REMINDER For anyone aged 18-30 Living Freedom Summer School is back - as featured here by free speech heroes @spikedonline Brilliant speakers explore the big issues of our times If YOU have a passion for ideas and a thirst for debate, APPLY NOW! spiked-online.com/2026/05/15/liv…
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Peter Ramsay
Peter Ramsay@peteray21·
That Labour is finding it so hard to get rid of this laughable individual is the UK’s version of the Democrats’ problem with sleepy Joe Biden. The replacement when they eventually get there will no doubt have all the political depth of Kamala Harris.
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Alastair Donald
Alastair Donald@MaximumCities·
Early marker for how SNP will try to deal with rise of Reform- lock in ALL elite parties (includes Greens btw) and firewall populists as outside limits of acceptable politics. But being on outside gives clarity. Building a new politics requires crushing progressive establishment
Colin Mackay@STVColin

FM says he will invite all party leaders except Reform in to St Andrews House for talks about post election priorities. On cost of living, he will deal with supermarket price cap and £2 bis fare in first 100 days. He says UK Govt must engage on the constitution.

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John-Robin Bold@JohnRobinBold·
@JamesHeartfield Or as if they secretly know that their project has nothing to do with the working class.
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Nina Power
Nina Power@Nina_Power_·
Is she the "Lucy Carrington" who is training to be a solicitor? The one who has 33 followers on X with a dog in a party hat photo? I NEED TO KNOW! WHO IS LUCY CARRINGTON AND WHY IS SHE ALWAYS RUNNING AND COMING LAST IN LOCAL ELECTIONS!
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Nina Power
Nina Power@Nina_Power_·
Always intrigued by the Independent local election candidates who have absolutely no information out there about who they are or what they stand for. What mysterious force compels them to file nomination paperwork, collect whichever signatures they need, and so on?
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John-Robin Bold@JohnRobinBold·
@verdur_in @Nina_Power_ Let me know if FKA Twigs is a worthy heir of the Catholic musical tradition or if we should rather stick to DJ Priest Padre Guilherme.
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Pierre d'Alancaisez (is) Verdurin
This year's Venice Biennale is beginning to look like a Pride parade: an artist wants to exclude American hate, the Golden Lion committee blocked artists from countries with bad politics (then they resigned), there were petitions against Russia and Israel, and cancellations in South Africa and Australia.. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…
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Old fashioned Marxist 🗽
Old fashioned Marxist 🗽@laborrepublican·
Despite the idiotic conspiracy theories about the Frankfurt School peddled by right-wing cranks (like Gabriel Rockhill), "cultural Marxism" is a real phenomenon. "Cultural Marxists" are like "cultural Jews" or "cultural Catholics": they don't believe any of the important stuff, but merely cling to some "cultural signifiers" to maintain a vague sense of group identity. Even those signifiers are no more than distorted counterfeits of the old ways, tainted by the eclecticism with which contemporary sensibilities disguise their vacuity. But of course, even the most unreconstructed traditionalists can only pretend to maintain fidelity to what has been irreparably lost. The Catholic Church could only counter the Reformation with its own internal reformation, and hence, modernization and secularization. Likewise, the Judaism of the rabbis is only an observance of what has long since ceased to be: the true religion that ended when the Second Temple was destroyed, and the chosen people scattered to the winds.
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Pierre d'Alancaisez (is) Verdurin
Verdurin is looking for help with organising our events, courses, as well as upcoming exhibitions and publications. Get in touch if you’d like to be involved.
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John-Robin Bold@JohnRobinBold·
People who think the that the pope's statements have anything to do with Baudrillard also believe that Baudrillard wrote the script for The Matrix.
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SDP North West
SDP North West@TheSDPNorthWest·
Hamed Aden @hamedaden16 is standing as the SDP candidate for Chorlton Park (Manchester Council) Vote SDP on 7th May 🗳️ Join us: sdp.org.uk
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John-Robin Bold@JohnRobinBold·
@RosieKayK2CO @SeeRedWoman1 @ImagineBelfast Ever since the Gaza war artists have become outspoken against censorship when some institutions canceled engagements of 'pro-palestine' artists. This piece shows well the opportunistic nature of this mainstream stance and why there hasn't been a sea change for artistic freedom.
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Rosie Kay
Rosie Kay@RosieKayK2CO·
New Substack! Who’s Afraid of Free Expression in the Arts? I went to a panel on censorship in Belfast and watched it turn into a demonstration of the problem it claimed to address. @SeeRedWoman1 @ImagineBelfast
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Lisa Mckenzie
Lisa Mckenzie@redrumlisa·
In a few days Ashfield & Mansfield Councils remove 4k people from the Council House Waiting List & close the list to everyone who is working full time even on minimum wage. Council Housing will be paid for almost exclusively with housing benefit & those who work will be thrown into the hopeless private rental market which will hold them in poverty nottinghampost.com/news/local-new…
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John-Robin Bold@JohnRobinBold·
New music out today! For 'JOMO' (Joy of Missing Out) by Marco Simioni I have remixed his piece in a properly ascetic manner, taking only a 10 second sample that is barely audible in the original and making it unfold like a distant wonder. on.soundcloud.com/PsYRCSsiTcdz7P…
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Pierre d'Alancaisez (is) Verdurin
Is there a way to evolve humanity out of language? Watched the Goodwin Twelves "debate" and I think no one should ever be allowed to speak again.
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John-Robin Bold@JohnRobinBold·
@buffsoldier_96 @sadarlo1 Paraphrasing Adorno, pop is unable to speak at all. Lyrics are irrelevant, we all know the clichés and slogans. Trap lingo is a prime example: meaningless emotive sounds, an infantilised dadaistic sound poetry. Other languages merely add to that repertoire of fetishised sounds.
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