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A guest post from our great friend and collaborator Josephine Burton, artistic director and chief executive at Dash Arts.
Culture
A guest post from our great friend and collaborator Josephine Burton, artistic director and chief executive at Dash Arts.
A guest post from Cooperation Hull organiser Gully Bujak on why we need a people-led approach to our political problems.
Gaza
A guest post by Nicholas Royle, author of 'David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine'.
Activism
Why we need to bring the Ocean out from behind the closed doors of Brussels.
Belonging
There’s still much to learn from our relationship with national symbols.
Trigger warning: this post contains flags. This article answers three questions about the Fête of Britain graphic identity we believe are fundamental to the work of Absurd Intelligence: 1. What the fuck do you mean, “Britain”? 2. And what’s with the Union Jack? or, rather 3. How will we
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It’s time to do the previously unthinkable: get over ourselves, and start actually working with each other.
Right and left have failed us, and the centre cannot hold. Are you tired of pretending the slo-mo disaster movie doesn’t star us? And are you ready to do the previously unthinkable? Part one of two: the broken models of behaviour we need to escape.
A plan to broaden people’s perspectives by offering a new vision for what the future could be.
Those of us who have been around the movement for many years can think back to a time we would tell ourselves, “When rich people in LA start losing their homes, things will change”...
David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules
‘If you want peace don’t talk to your friends. Talk to your enemies.’ - Desmond Tutu
Our Convention on the Fate of Britain was a party for the people who keep the country running.
Does reducing help to the poorest really defend us?
It can and should be used to express our might.
This is what protest is all about.
A chance to connect with other organisers, campaigners, artists, makers and doers on what comes next.
Since 2024, Absurd Intelligence has worked with the Hard Art network to put on The Fête of Britain, a joyous, riotous invitation to be part of what comes next.
The Euros winners show what it means to love your country.
There's a reason why the far-right push conspiracy theories.
When you have a clear, consistent message and a powerful messenger, you can shift the political weather.
It's time to bring people together to feel part of something bigger.
A play about the Russian invasion of Ukraine makes us reflect on the symbolic role that Nigel Farage is performing on Britain’s stage.