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The Utopia Project: You say you want a revolution

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012. You say you want a revolution. Joseph Skvorecky, a survivor of both Nazi and Communist regimes, is quoted:. In 1981, long before the Iron Curtain fell, Mr. Skvorecky shared a stage in Toronto with Margaret Atwood, Allen Ginsberg and others who were discussing “The Writer and Human Rights.” He said that an artist must be a reactionary, to stand out from his culture by offering “some little opposition.”. Compare, oh, say Ursula LeGuin, in "The Day Before the Revolution" (1974):.

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The Utopia Project: On the ambiguity of the anti-utopians

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Thursday, December 9, 2010. On the ambiguity of the anti-utopians. Or Berdyaev - see p. 122) again. The opponents of socialism say that socialism is a utopia and that it flies in the face of human nature. There is some ambiguity in this. It is not clear whether they do not want socialism on the ground that it is unrealizable, utopian, and a mere dream, or whether it is unrealizable because they do not want it and do everything in their power to hinder it and prevent it coming into being. A good point, no?

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Conversation with Anab Jain - Lighthouse, Brighton - Tobias Revell

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Conversation with Anab Jain - Lighthouse, Brighton. A recorded conversation with Anab Jain. In Brighton as an event based around subjects and themes raised in the Monopoly of Legitimate Use. Seizing the Means of Rendering - Amateur Cities. Speculative and Critical Design Summer School - LCC. 887, Stories From The First Transnational Traders, Performance. It Came Through The Seams! Haunted Machines - Alchemy. This Did Not Take Place - Impakt, Utrecht. Working Up A Sweat - Dirty Furniture 2.

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Haunted Machines - FutureEverything, Manchester - Tobias Revell

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Haunted Machines - FutureEverything, Manchester. Is an ongoing project started by myself and Natalie Kane. Which launched at and is suppported by Future Everything Festival. The speakers; Ingrid Burrington, Warren Ellis, Joanne McNeil, Eleanor Saitta, Chardine Taylor-Stone and Georgina Voss, will reflect on the narratives of magic and hauntings pervading our relationship with technology and begin to analyse why these narratives exist, what they mean and what they do. Haunted Machines - Northern Soul.

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Haunted Machines, Web Directions South 2014 - Tobias Revell

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Haunted Machines, Web Directions South 2014. Keynote given to close Web Directions South 2014 on how we interpret myth, magic and hauntings from our technological interactions. The talk and research for it went on to become the Haunted Machines. Seizing the Means of Rendering - Amateur Cities. Speculative and Critical Design Summer School - LCC. 887, Stories From The First Transnational Traders, Performance. It Came Through The Seams! Haunted Machines - Alchemy. This Did Not Take Place - Impakt, Utrecht.

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Monster Making - FutureEverything, Manchester - Tobias Revell

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Monster Making - FutureEverything, Manchester. A talk given at Future Everything 2014. My work and a call for monstrous interventions into design fictions. Seizing the Means of Rendering - Amateur Cities. Speculative and Critical Design Summer School - LCC. 887, Stories From The First Transnational Traders, Performance. It Came Through The Seams! Haunted Machines - Alchemy. This Did Not Take Place - Impakt, Utrecht. Working Up A Sweat - Dirty Furniture 2. Monopoly of Legitimate Use - Život umjetnosti.

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Critical Exploits - Lighthouse Arts, Brighton - Tobias Revell

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Critical Exploits - Lighthouse Arts, Brighton. Talk given at the Lghthouse's Critical Exploits. Event The talk is a taxonomy of contemporary critical design, art and speculative projects with some history and interpretation of techniques and methods. Much of the talk was previously blogged here. Seizing the Means of Rendering - Amateur Cities. Speculative and Critical Design Summer School - LCC. 887, Stories From The First Transnational Traders, Performance. It Came Through The Seams!

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HIAP Residency - Helsinki, Finland - Tobias Revell

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HIAP Residency - Helsinki, Finland. In August 2014, I was invited to take part in a residency with the Helsinki International Artist's Project. In collaboration with the British Council. And Helsinki Design Week. While there I took part in various events including giving a Pecha Kucha. And an artist's talk. I visited many design institutions and spaces and pursued various small projects including The Presidents As Themselves. Above) and some digital sketches. That said, Helsinki has an incredible and leg...

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The Ongoing Collapse - Tobias Revell

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The Ongoing Collapse is a growing collection of data sources and links positioned as a reflection of the state of the world in the terms that it likes to use. It's a gentle ticking of the crumbling weird at the base of civilisation. The Ongoing Collapse forms a central platform of The Serpentine's Extinct.ly. Me if you have suggestions for links or sources. Seizing the Means of Rendering - Amateur Cities. Speculative and Critical Design Summer School - LCC. It Came Through The Seams!