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Below is a list of the current zines that are available. Just click on the link to take you to further information: On Moments & Meaning... This is a limited edition poetry booklet containing the work of the Yorkshire New Wave poet, Clifford Nicholas. It will be of interest to anyone who likes modernist poetry, especially that of the late 20th century. The poems cover political moments during that…
TWENTYSIX PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY STATIONS by Darrant Hinisco is still available, but there are only 20 left of this limited edition. It is based on the famous artist’s book by Ed Ruscha TWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS (a truly psychogeographical artist’s book), and faithfully follows its format and style. This is what Darrant Hinisco and Tina Richardson say in the preface: This artist’s book is a…
Let Me Tell You a Story: Presupposed actualization and the discourse of architectural development plans. By Fenella Brandenburg. Limited edition: only 10 available. This essay is by the infamous academic and agent provacateur Fenella Brandenburg. Brandenburg is well-known for her appearance as keynote speaker at the Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography (4WCOP) in September 2017 at Huddersfield…
Below are the posts I have written on Donald Trump, all in one place, for easy access. I started writing these in 2016. They are academic critiques based on some of my own observations and underpinned with, mostly, poststructural philosophical cultural theory. I hope you find them interesting: Nov 2016: #PresidentTrump - A Simulated Hold-Up May 2016: Myth Today: Truth and Trumph in a Trump World…
This limited edition A5 booklet of poetry is a curated collection of the work of the Yorkshire New Wave poet, Clifford Nicholas. Nicholas (1928-2021) was born in the North East of England, and his family moved to Leeds (West Yorkshire) when he was a small child. The University of Leeds is the site of the most complete hard copy collection of his previous work and is held in Special Collections.…
This zine is for anyone interested in 'love tokens', both historic and contemporary, and capital as theoretical subjects. The author uses key cultural studies critique from political and psychoanalytical theories in order to analyse and compare the two subjects. Both these theories cover, amongst many other things, the way objects are fetishised and hence how they are removed from their ‘true’…
This booklet is for anyone interested in experimental prose/poetry, wordplay, philosophy, psychogeography, walking, psychoanalysis, and dreams, amongst other themes. The text steps in and out of wakefulness via the movement of walking. It is both a play on words and an expression of the author’s interests as both a psychogeographer and an academic who studies psychoanalytic theory. The texts…
This zine is for anyone interested in kitsch from an everyday or academic perspective. The author provides her own kitsch objects, alongside some well-known ones, in order to explore and critique kitsch throughout its history. The zine is A5 size and includes text and black and white images for hard copies and colour for digital ones (highly illustrated). The hard copy cover is coloured card…
This zine is for anyone interested in words in the most general sense of the term. It may be the spoken word, books or political speech. In a more general sense the potential reader may be interested in culture or ideology. This zine discusses how words change and how words work. The zine is A5 size and includes text and black and white images for the hard copy and colour for the digital one. The…
This zine is for anyone interested in cartography and psychogeography, or those who might even be new to maps. While it is research-based it is written in layman's terms. This is the first full-colour zine in the series. The zine is A5 size and includes text and coloured maps and is available in both hard copy and digital format. The cover is coloured card (colour not specified). The contents…
