Culture
Wh-wh-wh-wh-what does regret mean?
Why the maddest band in the world are a key Absurd Inspiration.
Charlie Waterhouse
Charlie is a movement and communications strategist. Part of the creative team that helped start Extinction Rebellion in 2018, he is also a member of cultural collaboration Hard Art.
Love
The Work is Love
Part two of a birth-and-death double-header, and the Freedom that is utterly bound-up with Care.
The Revolution will not be wrapped in cotton wool
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
Culture
What’s in a name? For us, everything.
When the world’s gone utterly snooker-loopy, Absurdity is the only answer.
Culture
Cognitive Whiplash
Or, why talk is cheap, and the head will fuck us all unless the heart and hands respond.
Hard Art
An angel, a badger and an evil-tempered dad walk into a citizens’ assembly…
Two new absurd interventions in the world this week: a climate comedy novel, and a series of dialogues on assemblies.
Activism
The Network is The Strategy, Part Two: in Praise of Fred Hampton
It’s time to do the previously unthinkable: get over ourselves, and start actually working with each other.
Activism
The Network is The Strategy, Part One: Last Exit From La-La Land
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.
Culture
How time travel is the key to coping with The Shitshow.
Using the lesser known Greek concepts of time, Kairos and Aion, to save us from the tyranny of Chronos.
Culture
Hard Art: an invitation
A reminder that we can, and will, together forge a better world.
Climate
Whole Truth Five letter
The Absurd Intelligence team helped our friends at Save Our Juries write and gather support for an open letter protesting the outrageous sentences handed down to five people for nonviolent protest - the highest sentences this country has ever seen for these actions.