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Since his untimely death in January 1950, aged 46, George Orwell has been turned into a secular saint, with his Cold War-era novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four making Orwell - a democratic socialist - a hero to anti-communists across the world, but especially in England. This week, Juliet talks to critic Fatema Ahmed and writer Owen Hatherley about how and why Orwell became so revered, whether this reverence is useful, and how his writing might be reclaimed or reassessed by the contemporary British left.

SELECTED REFERENCES

WORKS BY GEORGE ORWELL

Animal Farm (1945)

Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)

Homage to Catalonia (1938)

‘The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius’ (1941) - https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/the-lion-and-the-unicorn-socialism-and-the-english-genius/

‘My Country Right or Left’ (1940) - https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/my-country-right-or-left/

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

‘Politics and the English Language’ (1946) - http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit

The Road to Wigan Pier (1936)

‘Why I Write’ (1946) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Write

Theodor W. Adorno

W. H. Auden

Billy Bragg

Russell Brand

E. H. Carr

Charlie Chaplin

Cyril Connolly

ROBERT CONQUEST, ‘George Orwell’ (1969) - http://misa-n-torpe.blogspot.com/2011/11/robert-conquest-on-george-orwell.html

ISAAC DEUTSCHER, ‘1984 – The Mysticism of Cruelty’ - https://www.marxists.org/archive/deutscher/1955/1984.htm

T. S. Eliot - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/26/ts-eliot-rejection-george-orwell-animal-farm-british-library-online

Michael Foot - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/mar/21/past.comment

Eric Gill

FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK, The Road to Serfdom (1944) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom

RAYNER HEPPENSTALL, Four Absentees (1960) - http://malkintowersbookblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/four-absentees-rayner-heppenstall.html

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, Why Orwell Matters (2002) - https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/books/the-independent-of-london.html

Christopher Isherwood

Arthur Koestler

Wyndham Lewis

Hugh MacDiarmid

Norman Ian MacKenzie

Kingsley Martin - https://spartacus-educational.com/TUmartin.htm

Malcolm Muggeridge

@OrwellFan - https://twitter.com/Orwell_Fan

Steven Poole - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/17/my-problem-with-george-orwell

Anthony Powell

Paul Robeson

Michael Sayers - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/michael-sayers-writer-whose-career-never-recovered-from-being-blacklisted-in-the-united-states-2032080.html

Stephen Spender

Dylan Thomas

Robert Webb - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/nov/05/russell-brand-robert-webb-revolution

RAYMOND WILLIAMS, Orwell (1971)

Jeff Nuttall's Bomb Culture (1968) was an unforgettably idiosyncratic document of Sixties counter-culture, looking at how the nuclear threat that followed World War II had shaped the mass consciousness. This week, Tom Overton talks to Douglas Field (author of All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin) and Jamie Sutcliffe about Strange Attractor Press' recent reissue of Bomb Culture (http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/bomb-culture-50th-anniversary-edition/), and Nuttall's place within various Sixties art scenes.

SELECTED REFERENCES

a-or-ist - https://cargocollective.com/aorist

Antonin Artaud

Antony Balch - https://transmediale.de/content/antony-balch

James Baldwin

The Beatles

Charles Bukowski

William S. Burroughs - http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/burroughs-in-london/

John Cage

Robert Carlyle

Centre 42 (Arnold Wesker) - http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/about-us/history-of-the-roundhouse/1960-1970-an-arts-centre-emerges/

Bob Cobbing - http://ubu.com/film/cobbing.html

Gregory Corso - https://www.litkicks.com/BOMB

Robert Creeley - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-creeley

The Doors

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Maria Fusco - http://mariafusco.net/

William Gibson

Allen Ginsberg

Maurice Girodias - https://bookblast.com/blog/spotlight-maurice-girodias-olympia-press-indie-publishers-remembered/

The Goon Show

Jimi Hendrix

Adrian Henri - https://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/adrian-henri

Michael Horovitz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Horovitz

The International Times

B. S. Johnson - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/youre-human-like-the-rest-of-them-the-films-of-b-s-johnson/

Jay Jeff Jones - https://twitter.com/jayjeffjones

Asger Jorn - http://www.museumjorn.dk/en/collections/about-asger-jorn/

Jack Kerouac

R. D. Laing

John Latham - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-latham-1470

DORIS LESSING, The Golden Notebook (1962)

DORIS LESSING, The Good Terrorist (1985) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/dec/03/fiction.dorislessing

NORMAN MAILER, Advertisements for Myself (1959)

NORMAN MAILER, The White Negro (1957) - https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-white-negro-fall-1957

André Masson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Masson

Barry Miles - http://barrymiles.co.uk

Eric Mottram - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaries-professor-eric-mottram-1568685.html

My Own Mag (Reality Studio website) - https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/my-own-mag/

Moving Times

A. D. Nuttall - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-a-d-nuttall-435468.html

JEFF NUTTALL, Snipe’s Spinster (1975)

The People’s Show

Project Sigma - http://realitysandwich.com/128311/alexander_trocchi_project_sigma/

John Rowan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rowan_(psychologist)

VALERIE SOLANAS, SCUM Manifesto (1967) - http://kunsthallezurich.ch/sites/default/files/scum_manifesto.pdf

Iain Sinclair

ALEXANDER TROCCHI, 'A Revolutionary Proposal' - http://www.notbored.org/invisible.html

FRED TURNER, From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006) - https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/arts/25conn.html

The War Game (dir. Peter Watkins, 1965) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02zy7nt

McKENZIE WARK, The Beach Beneath the Street (2013) - https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/05/spectacle-disintegration

Arnold Wesker

Carl Weissner - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Weissner

Wholly Communion (dir. Peter Whitehead, 1965) - http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1379899/index.html

The World is Not Enough (dir. Michael Apted, 1999)

The Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 inspired artists, writers and filmmakers at home and abroad to make work in support of the struggle against fascism and, in some cases, to fight for the Spanish Republic. This week, Juliet talks to writer/translator Lara Alonso Corona about the various reactions to the war, General Franco's victory and consolidation of fascist power in Spain, from before the conflict began in July 1936 to the present.

SELECTED REFERENCES

Rafael Alberti - https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/oct/29/guardianobituaries

W. H. AUDEN, Spain 1937 - https://sites.google.com/a/upr.edu/modernpoetry/Student-Blogs/ivan-andres-rodriguez/spainbywhauden

Azorin (José Martínez Ruiz) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Martínez_Ruiz

José Bergamín - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Bergamín

Blockade (dir. William Dieterle, 1938) - https://www.timeout.com/london/film/blockade

Luisa Carnés - http://www.newspanishbooks.com/author/luisa-carnes

Luis Cernuda - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Cernuda

Cyril Connolly

Salvador Dalí

The Devil's Backbone (dir. Guillermo del Toro, 2001) - http://wickedhorror.com/features/devils-backbone-pans-laybrinth-and-why-guillermo-del-toro-is-fixated-on-the-spanish-civil-war

España 1936 (dir. Luis Buñuel, 1937) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028838

Federico García Lorca - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/apr/23/federico-garcia-lorca-spanish-poet-killed-orders-spanish-civil-war

Ramón Gómez de la Serna - https://www.classicspanishbooks.com/20th-cent-ramon-de-la-serna.html

Luis de Góngora - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_de_Góngora

Francisco Goya

The Guernica Tree (dir. Fernando Arrabal, 1975) - http://filmepidemic.blogspot.com/2008/03/guernica-tree-arrabal-1975.html

Dan Hancox on the Valley of the Fallen: https://amuse.vice.com/en_us/article/wj3p3y/valley-of-the-fallen-spain-fascism

ERNEST HEMINGWAY, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

Miguel Hernández - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/miguel-hernandez

Langston Hughes

Ispanya (dir. Esfir Shub, 1939) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgGqYueTEnQ

Land and Freedom (dir. Ken Loach, 1995)

Ramiro de Maetzu - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramiro_de_Maeztu

Marujo Mallo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maruja_Mallo

ANDRÉ MALRAUX, L'Espoir (1937)

FILIPPO TOMMASO MARINETTI, 'Founding and Manifesto of the Futurists' (1909)

Mientras dure la guerra (dir. Alejandro Amenábar, 2019) - https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/355061

Joan Miró, 'Aidez l'Espagne' and 'The Reaper' (1937) - https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/hymn-freedom

JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET, The Dehumanisation of Art (1927) - https://brooklynrail.org/special/AD_REINHARDT/artists-on-ad/the-dehumanization-of-art-jose-ortega-y-gasset-and-ad-reinhardt

GEORGE ORWELL, Homage to Catalonia (1938) - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/george-orwell-spain-barcelona-may-days

Panic movement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_Movement

Pan's Labyrinth (dir. Guillermo del Toro, 2006)

Octavio Paz

Roland Penrose - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-roland-penrose-1755

Pablo Picasso, 'Guernica' (1937) - https://www.pablopicasso.org/guernica.jsp

Revista de Occidente (journal) - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Revista-de-Occidente

Spanish Earth (dir. Joris Ivens, 1937) - http://www.openculture.com/2012/06/ithe_spanish_earthi_written_and_narrated_by_ernest_hemingway.html

Stephen Spender

José Val del Omar - http://www.valdelomar.com/home.php?lang=en

Miguel de Unamuno - https://www.classicspanishbooks.com/20th-cent-unamuno.html

Ramón del Valle-Inclán - https://www.classicspanishbooks.com/20th-cent-valleinclan.html

Viva la muerte (dir. Fernando Arrabal, 1971) - https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/26/archives/screen-arrabals-viva-la-muerte.html

Maria Zambrano - http://www.metropolism.com/en/features/33449_who_is_mar_a_zambrano

Since he became Prime Minister of Turkey in 2002, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's rule has become increasingly authoritarian, with his treatment of journalists, writers and artists causing international concern. Juliet talks to art critic Fisun Güner (https://fisunguner.com) and Tuna Erdem of the Istanbul Queer Art Collective (https://www.istanbulqueerartcollective.co.uk) about how the situation has worsened since the Occupy Gezi protests in 2013 and the failed military coup of 2016, why Erdoğan's government has targeted the art world, and how artists might fight back.

SELECTED REFERENCES

Ahmet Altan: https://pen.org/advocacy-case/ahmet-mehmet-altan

Halil Altindere: https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/halil-altindere-wonderland-2013/

Yüksel Arslan: http://www.turkishculture.org/whoiswho/yuksel-arslan-1007.htm

Nicolas Bourriaud: http://www.artnews.com/2018/05/09/nicolas-bourriaud-curate-2019-istanbul-biennial/

Nuri Bilge Ceylan: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0149196

Diren Coşkun: https://lgbtinewsturkey.com/2018/02/08/lgbti-activist-kivilcim-arat-joins-diren-coskuns-death-fast

Nilüfer Demir: http://100photos.time.com/photos/nilufer-demir-alan-kurdi

SELAHATTIN DEMIRTAŞ, Dawn (2017): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/23/writing-opposition-turkey-grim-tradition-publishing

Zehra Doğan: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/1319540-1319540

Latifa Echakhch: https://frieze.com/article/latifa-echakhch

Bülent Ersoy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bülent_Ersoy

Esmeray: https://pen-international.org/news/interview-esmeray-juliet-jacques

Ara Güler: http://www.araguler.com.tr/aboutaraguler.html

Asena Günal: https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2016/10/turkey-art-troubled-times/

Erdum Gündüz - 'Standing Man': https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-22962526/turkey-s-standing-man-silent-protest-spreads

Nâzım Hikmet: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/nazim-hikmet

House of Wisdom (exhibition): https://collectivecukurcuma.com/2018/07/27/house-of-wisdom-i-nottingham/

Osman Kavala: http://www.depoistanbul.net/en/announcement-free-osman-kavala/

Pinar Marul: http://tzvetnik.online/portfolio_page/pinar-marul-at-oj

Çiğdem Mater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Çiğdem_Mater

HENRY MILLER, Tropic of Capricorn (1934)

North (dir. Çayan Demirel, 2015): https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/apr/20/turkey-censorship-north-documentary-istanbul-film-festival-kurdistan-workers-party

Orhan Pamuk: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/23/books.turkey

Renzo Piano: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/istanbul-modern-renzo-piano-1233959

ELIF ŞAFAK, The Bastard of Istanbul (2007): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jul/29/fiction.features1

belit sağ: https://frieze.com/article/turkish-video-artist-and-activist-asks-how-do-you-make-story-disappear

Tahribad-i İsayan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx36mnZvEO0

AHMET HAMDI TANPINAR, The Time Regulation Institute (1962): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/28/ahmet-hamdi-tanpinar-the-time-regulation-institute-turkey-western-time

Ali Taptık: http://www.alitaptik.com

Ahmet Telli: https://www.turkishminute.com/2018/12/21/intellectuals-launch-petition-to-support-poet-harassed-at-university-event/

Ece Temelkuran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ece_Temelkuran

Yoğunluk (Istanbul art collective): http://www.yogunluk.org/en/team.html

Photographer Markéta Luskačová (http://www.marketaluskacova.com) began her career in Czechoslovakia around the time of the Prague Spring, and moved to the UK in the mid-1970s, when she began to capture London's markets. With her work currently on display at Tate Britain (https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/display/spotlights/marketa-luskacova), Tom Overton asks her about her life and work.

SELECTED REFERENCES

Louis Armstrong

John Berger on Markéta Luskačová - http://www.marketaluskacova.com/publications/11-to-remember-2016/11-to-remember-2016-john-berger

Bertolt Brecht in Berlin (performance)

Max Brod

Henri Cartier-Bresson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson

Martine Franck - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/aug/19/martine-franck

Franz Kafka

Siirka-Liisa Konttinen - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sirkka-liisa-konttinen-9246

Josef Koudelka - https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2015/09/29/tom-overton/nationality-doubtful/

Otomar Krejča - https://www.radio.cz/en/section/news/theatre-director-otomar-krejca-dies-at-87

Martin Parr - https://www.martinparrfoundation.org/

Rainer Maria Rilke

Franz H. Wurm (poet/writer)

In our final show of 2018, co-hosts Juliet and Tom discuss literature, films, theatre and exhibitions that made an impact on them throughout the year, as well as what they anticipate in 2019.

SELECTED REFERENCES

120 BPM (dir. Robin Campillo, 2017) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6135348/

John Ash - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ash_(writer)

KEVIN BREATHNACH, Tunnel Vision (2019) - http://kbreathnach.tumblr.com/post/162864960815/tunnel-vision

SAM BYERS, Perfidious Albion (2018) - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/hysterical-realism-a-review-of-perfidious-albion-by-sam-byers/

Cold War (dir. Pawel Pawlikowski, 2018) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6543652/

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

The Encounter (Complicité) - http://www.complicite.org/productions/theencounter

ANNIE ERNAUX, The Years (2018) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/22/the-years-annie-ernaux-review

Faces, Places (dir. Agnès Varda & J.R., 2018) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/20/faces-places-review-agnes-varda-jr-road-movie-documentary

Zoya Falkova - http://romovayababa.com/en/

The Film of Kyiv (dir. Oleksiy Radynski, 2017-18) - https://www.ica.art/on/learning/oleksiy-radynski-film-kyiv

Gare St. Lazare Players - http://garestlazareireland.com/home/

HEIKE GEISSLER, Seasonal Associate (2018) - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/seasonal-associate

Gran Fury - https://tankmagazine.com/tank/2018/10/gran-fury/

In the Intense Now (dir. João Moreira Salles, 2017)

Joan Jonas - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/13/joan-jonas-review-tate-modern

JOE KENNEDY, Authentocrats (2018)

ANDREA LAWLER, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (2017) - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/gender-bending-the-body-on-andrea-lawlors-paul-takes-the-form-of-a-mortal-girl/

Fernand Léger - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/nov/25/fernand-leger-new-times-new-pleasures-tate-liverpool-adrian-searle

VICTORIA LOMASKO, Other Russias (2017) - https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/listening-to-ordinary-russians-by-drawing-them-one-by-one

Daria Martin - https://vimeo.com/287699189

Raymond Mason - https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/obituary-raymond-mason

McDermott & McGough, Oscar Wilde Temple - https://www.oscarwildetemple.org/

Metahaven - https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/metahaven-version-history-exhibition-world-mental-health-day-101018

Jean Mohr - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/nov/15/jean-mohr-obituary

More of an Avalanche (Wysing) - http://www.wysingartscentre.org/archive/exhibitions/more_of_an_avalanche/2018

NADA: Act 3 - The Exhibition (dir. Jasmina Cibic, 2017) - http://jasminacibic.org/projects/nada-act-iii-the-exhibition/

Penalty (dir. Kiriil Protsenko, 2005) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpZxjXU5taE

Phantom Thread (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017) - https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n04/michael-wood/at-the-movies

Sophie Podolski - https://frieze.com/article/everything-permitted-sophie-podolskis-poetic-exuberance

RICHARD POWER SAYEED, 1997: The Future That Never Happened (2017) - https://novaramedia.com/2017/11/03/the-future-that-never-was-1997-and-after/

Primas (dir. Laura Bari, 2017) - https://womenandhollywood.com/hot-docs-2018-women-directors-meet-laura-bari-primas-c62bc551f3f/

Charlotte Prodger - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/04/iphone-film-maker-charlotte-prodger-wins-2018-turner-prize

Ann Quin

JORDY ROSENBERG, Confessions of the Fox (2018) - https://lithub.com/confessions-of-the-fox/

Oxana Shachko

ADELLE STRIPE, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile (2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/18/black-teeth-brilliant-smile-adelle-stripe-review

That Rush! (dir. Isaac Julien, 1995)

Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven - http://www.amvk.be/

The Work (dir. Gethin Aldous & Jairus McLeary, 2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/10/the-work-review-folsom-prison

Hamlet Zinkovsky - https://tinyletter.com/zinovievletter/letters/what-are-we-looking-for-here-or-an-afternoon-in-pripyat

Nature writing has often been white and male, and at times explicitly fascist. What would it mean to diversify the genre, in terms of race and gender? This week, Tom Overton talks to Jessica J. Lee, editor of The Willowherb Review (https://www.thewillowherbreview.com) about the journal and her book 'Turning: A Swimming Memoir' (2017), as well as her collaboration with The People's Forest project (https://wfculture19.co.uk/peoplesforest) and how we might imagine different kinds of nature writing.

SELECTED REFERENCES

Alliance for Freshwater Life - https://allianceforfreshwaterlife.org/

MARGARET ATWOOD, Surfacing (1972) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/sep/20/fiction.margaretatwood

Gary Budden - http://www.newlexicons.com/about

CATHERINE BUNI, ‘Towards a Wider View of Nature Writing’ (LARB, 2016) - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/toward-a-wider-view-of-nature-writing

Carolyn Finney - http://carolynfinney.com/about.html

THEODOR FONTANE, Rambles Through the March of Brandenburg - https://www.roughguides.com/destinations/europe/germany/berlin-and-brandenburg/theodor-fontane-and-his-brandenburg-wanderings

JESSICA J. LEE, Turning (2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/02/turning-swimming-memoir-jessica-j-lee-review

Ursula K. LeGuin

ANNA LOWENHAUPT TSING, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/19/mushroom-end-world-anna-lowenhaupt-tsing-review

Ingrid Pollard – ‘Pastoral Interlude’ (1988) - http://www.ingridpollard.com/pastoral-interlude.html

Lauret Savoy – https://www.mtholyoke.edu/people/lauret-savoy

Richard Smyth, ‘The Dark Side of Nature Writing’ - https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5331/the-dark-side-of-nature-writing

Unearthly (BBC radio documentary) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09tds6x

HENRY WILLIAMSON, Tarka the Otter (1927) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Williamson

Dorothy Wordsworth - https://fivebooks.com/best-books/william-dorothy-wordsworth-lucy-newlyn

William Wordsworth

Recorded live in Birmingham during Grand Union’s ‘Ways of Learning’ exhibition, this episode of Suite (212) Extra discusses queer consciousness-raising. Juliet talks to writer/artist Huw Lemmey about LGBTQI+ activism before and after the Stonewall riots of June 1969 in the US and western Europe; the use of direct action and think-ins by the Gay Liberation Front and others; how AIDS and Section 28 changed queer art and activism; the development of trans theory in the 1990s; and the state of queer politics and creativity today.

SELECTED REFERENCES

Travis Alabanza - http://travisalabanza.co.uk

Kenneth Anger

Penny Arcade (performance artist) - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/juliet-jacques/2012/06/penny-arcade-someone-always-queer

Army of Lovers (dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1979) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078794

HARRY BENJAMIN, The Transsexual Phenomenon (1967)

Jay Bernard - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/05/speaking-out-jay-bernard-surge-side-a-poet

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore - https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/

Imogen Binnie - https://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/04/02/nevada-a-novel-by-imogen-binnie/

KATE BORNSTEIN, Gender Outlaw (1994) - https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kate-bornstein/gender-outlaw/

Lee Brewer & Bunny Eisenhower

City of Lost Souls (dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1983) - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/returning-to-the-city-of-lost-souls

Come Out (Gay Liberation Front magazine)

Contrapoints - https://www.theverge.com/tech/2018/8/24/17689090/contrapoints-youtube-natalie-wynn

Kenny Everett

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

LESLIE FEINBERG, Stone Butch Blues (1993) - http://www.lesliefeinberg.net

FHAR (Front for Homosexual Revolutionary Action)

Fierce Pussy - https://fiercepussy.org/

Ray Filar - https://twitter.com/rayfilar

Diamanda Galás

Gender Trash from Hell (zine) - https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/xg94hp65x

Gender Troublemakers (dir. Xanthra Philippa & Mirha-Soleil Ross, 1993)

Henry Gerber - http://chicagolgbthalloffame.org/gerber-henry

Allen Ginsberg

Gran Fury - https://hyperallergic.com/46881/gran-fury-read-my-lips-80-wse-nyu

Sunil Gupta – ‘‘Pretended’ Family Relationships’ (1988-89)

Keith Haring

Harry Hay - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hay

Magnus Hirschfeld

Homocult (1990s UK queer group) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11936213-queer-with-class

David Hoyle - https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/vb349b/the-parallel-universe-of-david-hoyle

It is Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1971) - https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/tags/73387-it-is-not-the-homosexual-who-is-perverse-but-the-society-in-which-he-lives

JULIET JACQUES, Trans: A Memoir (2015)

LaJohn Joseph - http://www.lajohnjoseph.com/

Larry Kramer - https://www.poz.com/article/course-larry-kramer-believes-aids-worse-now-ever

LSD - http://archivo-t.net/portfolio/1995-%C2%B7-menstruosidades/

Robert Mapplethorpe

MARIO MIELI, Elements of a Homosexual Critique (1977)

Zanele Muholi

My Beautiful Launderette (dir. Stephen Frears, 1985)

Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Passage (band) - https://thepassage.co.uk/texts/andertons_hall.html

Lazlo Pearlman

Casey Plett

Positiv and Silence = Death (dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1990)

PAUL B. PRECIADO, Testo Junkie (2008)

Pride (dir. Matthew Warchus, 2014)

Nat Raha

Ron Rice

Ignacio Rivera

Sylvia Rivera - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QiigzZCEtQ

Round the Horne (BBC radio series)

Vito Russo

Richard Scott

JULIA SERANO, Excluded (2013)

SANDY STONE, ‘The “Empire” Strikes Back: A Post-Transsexual Manifesto’ (1987)

Screaming Queens (dir. Susan Stryker & Victor Silverman, 2008)

Jack Smith

Tim Peaks: Farron Walk With Me (radio play, 2018)

ISABEL WAIDNER (ed.), Liberating the Canon (2018)

We Have Rather Been Invaded (dir. Ed Webb-Ingall, 2016)

Oscar Wilde

Eley Williams

Kenneth Williams

David Wojnarowicz

Zaj (Spanish Fluxus group) - https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/zaj

Much of the Western Front fighting in World War I took place in France, yet the cultural legacy of the war in France remains under-explored in the UK. This week, Juliet talks to Eric Robertson (Royal Holloway) and Peter Read (University of Kent) about how the experience of the war affected the Cubist and Surrealist movements and the development of French film, pushing some artists towards traditionalism, and others towards the avant-garde.

SELECTED REFERENCES

L’Affaire Dreyfus (dir. Georges Méliès, 1899) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_fbOIgvYsY

NORMAN ANGELL, The Great Illusion (1909)

GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE, Calligrammes (1918) - https://ubutext.memoryoftheworld.org/Apollinaire_Calligrams.pdf

GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE, ‘Ocean of Earth’ - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58343/ocean-of-earth

Louis Aragon - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/louis-aragon

Jean (Hans) Arp

Antonin Artaud - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Artaud

Hugo Ball

HENRI BARBUSSE, Le Feu (1917) - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/13/barbusse-feu-under-fire

Maurice Barrès - http://www.dreyfus.culture.fr/en/bio/bio-html-maurice-barres.htm

Charles Baudelaire

The Birth of a Nation (dir. D. W. Griffith, 1915)

Georges Braque

André Breton - http://www.surrealists.co.uk/breton.php

Cabiria (dir. Giovanni Pastrone, 1914)

BLAISE CENDRARS, J’ai tué (I Have Killed, 1918) - https://literaryabsolute.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/3-0e28093bc-i_killed.pdf

Salvador Dalí

Sonia Delaunay

André Derain

Robert Desnos - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Desnos

Sergei Diaghilev

Roland Dorgelès - https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/dorgeles_roland

Georges Duhamel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Duhamel

Paul Éluard - https://www.shmoop.com/surrealism/paul-eluard-author.html

David Gascoyne (Surrealist poet)

La Grande Illusion (dir. Jean Renoir, 1937) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/greatest-films-all-time/great-escape-la-grande-illusion

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Auguste & Louis Lumière

J’Accuse (dir. Abel Gance, 1919) - http://sensesofcinema.com/2009/dvd/abel-gance-jaccuse-la-roue/

Max Jacob

Jean Jaurès

Fernand Léger - http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2014/06/war-artist-fernand-leger.html

René Magritte

Stéphane Mallarmé

Napoléon (dir. Abel Gance, 1927) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/napoleon-highlights-abel-gance-silent-film

Ron Padgett

Parade (ballet, 1917) - http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/the-1917-ballet-parade-created-by-erik-satie-pablo-picasso-jean-cocteau.html

BENJAMIN PÉRET, ‘Little Song of the Maimed’ - https://movehimintothesun.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/little-song-of-the-maimed-benjamin-peret/

Pablo Picasso

Arthur Rimbaud

René Schickele - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Schickele

Gino Severini - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Severini

GEORGES SOREL, The Illusion of Progress (1908) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Sorel

Philippe Soupault - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-beautiful-space-that-slips-away-philippe-soupault-and-the-french-avant-garde/

Tristan Tzara - http://www.dramainthehood.net/2013/08/the-gas-heart/

PAUL VALÉRY, La Jeune Parque (1917) - https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/251734/paul-valery-and-the-last-centennial-of-1917

Verdun: Visions d’histoire (dir. Léon Poirier, 1928) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDC1Z8Pj0e8

Die Weißen Blätter (German journal) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Weißen_Blätter

JAY WINTER, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (1995) - https://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/25

Wooden Crosses (dir. Raymond Bernard, 1932) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/26/philip-french-classic-dvd-wooden-crosses-raymond-bernard

ÉMILE ZOLA, Germinal (1885) and J’Accuse (1898) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/zola/1898/jaccuse.htm

Why make a political arts programme? In this episode of Suite (212) Extra, hosts Juliet Jacques and Tom Overton discuss today's arts broadcasting and left-wing podcast scenes, and the place of Suite (212) and Resonance 104.4fm within it; how British modernist writers worked with TV and radio; how mainstream media leftists fought to establish a tradition of radical but popular cultural criticism; and plans for future shows, including a call for Gunnersaurus to come on Suite (212).

SELECTED REFERENCES

Larry Achiampong - http://www.larryachiampong.co.uk

Battleship Potemkin (dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)

Walter Benjamin

Anya Berger - https://frieze.com/article/life-margins

John Berger

Joseph Beuys

Ernst Bloch

Café Calcio - https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/playlists/cafe-calcio/

Hélène Cixous

Jean Cocteau

JONATHAN COE, Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson (2004) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jul/10/biography.jonathancoe

CYRIL CONNOLLY, Enemies of Promise (1938)

Adam Curtis - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis

Douglas Davis - https://www.moma.org/artists/40384

The Fall (group)

Good Morning Mr Orwell (dir. Nam June Paik, 1984) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIQLhyDIjtI

Rayner Heppenstall - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-connecting-door/

Sheila Heti

The Hooting Yard on the Air - https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/playlists/hooting-yard/

Hour of the Furnaces (dir. Fernando Solanas, 1968) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/greatest-films-all-time-essays/light-my-fire-hour-furnaces

Ignota Press

In Our Time (BBC radio)

Influx Press

B. S. Johnson on Samuel Johnson (ITV, 1972)

JAMES JOYCE, Ulysses (1922)

JULIET JACQUES, Trans: A Memoir (2015)

JOE KENNEDY, Authentocrats (2018) - http://review31.co.uk/essay/view/64/the-great-northern-morlock-hunt

Chris Kraus

Kusama’s Self-Obliteration (dir. Jud Yalkut, 1967) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6wnhLqJqVE

Deborah Levy - https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/07/things-i-dont-want-know-powerful-feminist-response-orwells-why-i-write

Christopher Logue - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Logue

London Film-Makers’ Co-op

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (dir. Mark Achbar & Pete Wintonick, 1992) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrBQEAM3rE

So Mayer

Jonathan Meades - https://vimeo.com/meadesshrine

Media Democracy - https://soundcloud.com/media-democracy-pod

Bill Morrison

Oli Mould

Simon Munnery’s Experimental Half Hour (Resonance FM show)

The New Babylon (dir. Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOhcTuFYe0

New Socialist - https://newsocialist.org.uk/people-are-intelligent-and-we-shouldnt-assume-otherwise/

Novara Media

Clive Nwonka

Oasis

Oberhausen festival - http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/oberhausen-film-festival/

Only Artists (BBC radio) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6wnhLqJqVE

GEORGE ORWELL, Animal Farm (1945)

Jordan Peterson - https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-194-fck-12-feat-shuja-haider-and-elon-musk-31818

Politics Theory Other - https://soundcloud.com/poltheoryother

Jacques Prévert

Project O.

Ann Quin

Reel Politik - https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, The Social Contract (1762)

MARC SAPORTA, Composition No. 1 (1962) - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maybe-you-should-start-again/

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Richard III (c.1593)

So Solid Crew

The Spice Girls

David Stubbs

Suite (212) (dir. Nam June Paik, 1975) - https://www.eai.org/titles/suite-212

JEAN-PHILIPPE TOUSSAINT, Football (2018) - https://www.ft.com/content/a65b540c-1767-11e6-b197-a4af20d5575e

JEAN-PHILIPPE TOUSSAINT, Zidane’s Melancholy (2007) - http://unrealisedfutures.tumblr.com/post/133790326925/zidanes-melancholy-by-jean-philippe-toussaint

Turn! Turn! Turn! (dir. Jud Yalkut, 1966) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXB-DlrQub0

The War Game (dir. Peter Watkins, 1965)

Ways of Seeing (dir. Mike Dibb, 1972)

Rosie Wilby - https://www.rosiewilby.com/radio