London Anarchist Bookfair 2022
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You're lucky they've gone with conventional spelling Magnus McGinty! 
"Perhaps learning how to write letters is most openly and nakedly the point where iteration itself is at stake. Perhaps it points to the essential and primary movement from joyful exuberance to iterative drudgery. "The repetitive nature of patterns," with which children start to learn how to draw letters, "emphasizes the rhythmic movement which we aim for when writing," This tames the children's muscles, helping to "maintain the consistency of size."
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"Perhaps learning how to write letters is most openly and nakedly the point where iteration itself is at stake. Perhaps it points to the essential and primary movement from joyful exuberance to iterative drudgery. "The repetitive nature of patterns," with which children start to learn how to draw letters, "emphasizes the rhythmic movement which we aim for when writing," This tames the children's muscles, helping to "maintain the consistency of size."
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This small booklet is a reflection on the tyranny of writing as a rigid practice from the act of writing to what we re allowed to write and what it would mean for our way of writing to be as liberating as what we re trying to say Pictographs! Breaking out of ruts! The text is reminiscent of some...
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Fozzie Bear
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I'm very much looking forward to all the anarchist and birdlife puns etc.
ska invita
back on the other side
charlie mowbray
The Enforcer
Hmmm, I always thought it was a secretary bird.
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Starry Wisdom
Secretary bird has a much shorter beak, is very different
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Lurdan
old wave
TBF Roumm's Wildcat also didn't look much like a real wildcat. Perhaps he was subverting bourgeois realism.
Shame that kind of thing seems to be well out of fashion these days.
My invitation probably in the balance this year.
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
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I do think if people/groups are refused a stall it'd be generally useful and polite to explain why. If it's just a stall selling a book that can be bought elsewhere and there's limited stall space, for example, I think that might be fair enough.
Now the only possible reasons she can think of are that the anarchist bookfair people don't like working class people or genuine collectives, neither of which strike me as the likely reasons that the project has had a stall request rejected.
Now the only possible reasons she can think of are that the anarchist bookfair people don't like working class people or genuine collectives, neither of which strike me as the likely reasons that the project has had a stall request rejected.
It’s all a bit “it’s my ball and you’re not playing.”
Embarrassing really.
Embarrassing really.
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What the bookfair? TBH I can imagine some fair reasons that she might have been turned down for a stall.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
On one hand I think it'd be better to provide a proper answer to enquiries and avoid any ambiguity, but also as someone who's not feeling particularly motivated at my own job today, I can fully sympathise with the temptation to just reply to all emails with "disinclined".
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i've been signing myself off with 'no kind regards' all today
Maybe he’s now been disinclined for having the wrong kind of hi-vis.
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perhaps we should have continuity bookfair in conway hall and the new bookfair in red lion square.
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there's generally been a deadline in the past before which people could get stalls - perhaps there is one this year, i don't know. but under the auld regime the collective would do their best to accommodate. now there's been a changing of the guard things are different. last time round the acg were barred. this time it's lisa. there seems to have been some decision made about the sort of people the organisers want and the sort of people they don't. and that's not healthy for the movement. back in the day i think there were stalls in the main hall at conway hall and also in the large room at the 'back' (backing onto theobalds road) plus meetings up the windy staircase. might have been windy meetings up the staircase. maybe the organisers can expand and resolve any space issues that way. i think they ought to come clean if there's some other reason behind the refusal or disinclination to give lisa a stall.
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
Perhaps there's been an SWP-style fatwah on engaging online in the Helmand Province of internet forums, urban75.
That'll learn 'em.
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