New School of the Anthropocene
@nsota
Founded in 2022. Addressing biopolitical emergency & climate justice through art-critique-experiment. Building a new society in the shell of the old. Join us at the Art Workers' Guild in London or across seven continents online! www.nsota.org
No matter how inured one becomes to the daily depravity of this repellent trash organ, the sheer wickedness of its murderous, ecocidal lies can still take the breath away.
“If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher…as a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.” --Abraham Lincoln Thomas Cole's "Course of Empire" (1836) is an American allegory. Stage four is "Destruction" from ignorance, avarice & civic decay.
Let a million friendly & joyous flags flutter in the breeze from UK lampposts. [2024 work by Jeffrey Gibson, member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.]
Samia Badani, Yusra Cherbika & friends at the SPACE are carrying out the work of the Life House in the shadow of Grenfell. "Our work goes beyond service delivery. We combine direct support with community organising, capacity building, and influencing change." www.214space.org/team-4
Trump's ecocidal regime is forcing researchers to rip more than 900 deep-sea monitors out of the Atlantic & Pacific oceans, home to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the ocean currents regulating global weather. Scientists tell us that it's close to collapse.
The Precarious Workers Brigade at the National Day of Action in London, November 10, 2010.
On bended knee we give thanks for the miracle that was Miles Davis, who entered the biosphere on this day, one hundred years ago. Long live Miles Davis.
An incomparable genius of jazz has passed the dark barrier. We mourn dear Sonny Rollins: the most life-affirming, imaginative & indefatigable of tenormen. Harlem Sonny lives.
50 yards away from the raging, drunken hordes of piss & wind on the fascist march yesterday, something magnificent unfolded on the Aldwych, in the form of the mothfestival.org/festival-2026. A portal to the critical imagination; to sanity & humility. With heartfelt thanks to our friends at MOTH!
A good number of NYC citizens had come to this conclusion by the late 1980s. Still, small mercies, etc.
David Hemmings photographed in Jermyn Street in 1968 in his groovy Turnbull Turtle. (“Pink silk crepe shirt, 12 gns, roll-neck as originally designed by Turnbull & Asser.") ontherow.substack.com/p/david-hemm...
America's collapse is breathtaking & pitiful. "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
NSotA was proud to be represented among the half-million on the streets of London this afternoon. Venceremos! #FreePalestine #DefundtheRight #StoptheWar
A grace & a pleasure to have been joined by Clare Farrell & Brian Eno for yesterday's Anthropocene Seminar, which they led with tender power. A thousand thanks, friends! Unleash the Leopards of Dionysus!
'The attacks on Iran’s oil storage facilities have unleashed massive health & environmental harm. This is ecocide. Corporations, financial institutions & the arms industry form the fossil-fuelled war economy that profits from destruction while accelerating climate breakdown.' climatenetwork.org