perspectives

Art as Activism

9, June 2025 by clive

This Deep Dive Perspective examines the role of art in resistance to tyranny and destruction. During the last few years, Eddie, Alex and I, with others from time to time, met weekly for a period, spending the day together talking, screen printing and having lunch at the London School of Mosaic where Eddie has his … Read more

10, May 20229, May 2022 by clive

A conversation on a local Telegram group questioned the integrity of Hugo Talks and his videos, which tend to be on point on many issues but in his questioning everything may be “throwing the baby out with the bath water”. Here is an excerpt from the Telegram conversation: I started watching one of his videos … Read more

Gulag Academia

3, January 202030, November 2019 by clive

A study of the effect of hierarchy on academic freedom and our consequent perceptions of reality has been uploaded to archive.org and is available as a PDF here.

Abstract

Purpose: Exposing the deficiencies of institutional hierarchies in academia which limit the potential for human creativity and understanding.

Design/methodology/approach: This paper is the product of non-hierarchical, self-organised learning following the methodology of CoCreative Learning (see Section 9).

Findings: Academia’s institutional hierarchy perpetuates ignorance of the current political economy which functions as a mechanism to farm humans and harvest the wealth they create.