Watch “The Society of the Spectacle” by Guy Debord
This is the film made of Guy Debord’s book “The Society of the Spectacle” which is one of the main texts of the Situationist International.
Kenny Wilson Talks about Bob Dylan at Secular Hall Leicester 5th October 7 p.m.
We Shall Fight, We Will Win: On The Black Dwarf and 1968 (Verso)
We Shall Fight, We Will Win: On The Black Dwarf and 1968 The radical newspaper The Black Dwarf played a pivotal role in the British left in the late ’60s. In this introduction to the magazine by Tariq Ali, it’s editor for the first years of its existence, Ali discusses the influences behind the formation of the magazine and […]
Kenny Wilson at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution 12th July 2017
This is a video of my talk at BRLSI in July. It’s not great quality but you get the whole thing! I originally put it on YouTube but it got blocked because of my use of two Bob Dylan songs. This was a bit disappointing but I have decided to upload it here instead. I […]
The Untold Story of the Peace Sign
You can find the original of this at Fastcode Design website. MARK SINCLAIR 10.02.14 8:00 AM The symbol that would become synonymous with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) was first brought to wide public attention on the Easter weekend of 1958 during a march from London to Aldermaston in Berkshire, the site of the Atomic […]
Poster for my lecture at the Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution 12th July
John Hopkins Invented the 1960s
This interview was first published in VICE March 2nd 2010 British photographer and political activist John “Hoppy” Hopkins spent the 1960s documenting jazz, poetry, The Rolling Stones, Nelson Mandela, the sexual revolution – basically everything that defined the decade. When he wasn’t working, he was launching the legendary UFO club at The Roundhouse in […]
THE HOLY BARBARIANS by Lawrence Lipton
The Holy Barbarians was a book published in 1959 detailing the lives of the Beats living on Venice Beach in Los Angeles by poet Lawrence Lipton. It was very influential and was like a How to Do book for us in the mid 1960s in Leicester. Following is a quote from the book about the difference […]