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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 11h

What does it mean to think through touch? 💭

Join us to explore the surreal world of Jan & Eva Švankmajer, where spoons, teapots & clay become portals to imagination and resistance.

🗓Tuesday 21 October, 7pm | 📍The Southern Belle & online | Free

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#Surrealism

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 7d

George and Millie tell you more about what we will be discussing in this week's online session, “Scholars in Gaza Under Siege: Defending Education, Resisting Erasure” on Saturday, 11 October 2025 at 10 am BST.

This event will be only online via Zoom
FREE entry
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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 14d

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Scholars in Gaza Under Siege: Defending Education, Resisting Erasure

Join Dr Ahmed Kamal Junina and his students to explore education, art, and solidarity in Gaza amidst ongoing siege and erasure.

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 14d

For our next session, we’ll be joined by Dr Ahmed Kamal Junina (Al-Aqsa University, Gaza) & RECONNECT students to discuss solidarity under siege. We’ll learn about scholarship and art from Gaza, and reflect on defending Palestinian culture & education.
📅 Sat 11 Oct, 10-11:30am | Online only | Free

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 21d

🌅Here are some snippets of what we got up to in our last session, “What is Utopia”, and some books we drew upon for the session.

#Books #Utopia #Studies

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · Sep 8

✨Tomorrow we kick off our autumn season with What’s Utopia? ✨

Join us online or in person to explore the history of utopian thought & creatively map visions of a better world.

📅Tuesday, 9 September, 7pm
📍The Southern Belle & online
🌍 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/1652928416...

#Utopia #Brighton

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · Sep 4

🍂 New season, new leaflet! We’re back with Exploding Appendix events exploring utopias, cinema, philosophy & playful workshops to spark ideas & imagine together.

Big thanks to @soofiya.bsky.social for our fresh new look

👀 Talks free in person & online:
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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · Sep 2

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What is Utopia?

In this talk led by Bradley Tuck we ask: What is utopia for us today? How can utopian thought help us imagine—and enact—better futures?

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · Sep 2

🤩Next Tue, 9 Sept, 7pm (online + at The Southern Belle, Hove) we launch the autumn Exploding Appendix season!

🌱 We’ll explore utopian thought & map visions of a better world.

✨Free & open, bring a friend!

🔗In comments

#Freeevents #Brighton #Utopia #ArtSalon

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · Aug 27

👂The Exploding Appendix Dossier started in 2021, full of manifestos, music, poetry, film & more.

🎙️This episode brings together Robert Jones & contributors to revisit the first Dossier REVOLUTION ✶ ART ✶ MANIFESTO, and celebrate its radical spark.

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#Manifesto #Art

REVOLUTION*ART*MANIFESTO The Exploding Appendix Dossier #1.0

In January 2021, Exploding Appendix published the first volume of the Exploding Appendix Dossier. The volume focused on the triad of themes REVOLUTION*ART*MANIFESTO and was comprised of manifestos, mu

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · Aug 6

🎙️ New podcast episode 🎙️
From In the Mood for Love to Fallen Angels, Wong Kar Wai bends genre into something luminous and hypnotic.

We talk with Anna Warren about time, memory and the “mysterization” of everyday life.

🎧 Listen on YouTube + SoundCloud linktr.ee/explodingapp...

#WongKarWai

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Brighton & Hove City Council @brighton-hove.gov.uk · Jul 30

It’s expected to be a busy weekend in the city 🎉

Here's your guide for enjoying Pride safely and responsibly, including:
🙌 tips on how to plan ahead
❤️‍🩹 available first aid, medical help or support
🧑‍⚕️ harm reduction advice

Find out more 👉 www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/news/2025/st...

Stay safe and plan ahead for Pride 2025

As we get ready to host Pride 2025, here's your guide for enjoying the event safely and responsibly.

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · Jul 30

‼️ New podcast ‼️
C.L.R. James rejected bureaucracy and insisted that workers organise for themselves.

With Facing Autonomy, we explore Italian Autonomist Marxism and the politics of self-organisation today.

🎧 Listen on YouTube + SoundCloud linktr.ee/explodingapp...

#Marxism #Podcast

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · Jul 9

‼️ New podcast ‼️

On Aug 9 1969, utopia met the knife.

Manson’s Family wasn’t an aberration, they were born of the counterculture.

We speak to James Riley (The Bad Trip) on LSD, apocalypse + the dark mirror of the 60s.

🎧 Listen on YouTube + SoundCloud - linktr.ee/explodingapp...

#Podcast #Manson

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · Jun 20

Our final session before autumn is next week! Come celebrate, reflect, and imagine what’s next for arts & culture in Brighton & Hove.

📅 Tuesday 24 June, 7–9:30pm (Doors 6:30pm)
📍 The Southern Belle, Hove & online
🌍 Free - www.eventbrite.com/e/defending-...
#WhatsonBrighton #Arts&Culture

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · Jun 11

The Exploding Appendix Podcast relaunches today with Episode 40: “Marx and Poetics — A Live Conversation with Keston Sutherland,” with brand new music intro by Nick Hudson (the one in this reel).

🎙️ Episode out now and every other Wednesday on YouTube and Soundcloud: linktr.ee/explodingapp...
#pod

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Art & Research Group exploring the avant-garde and radical counterculture.

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · Jun 2

#Fashion #Event #Suit #Gender

Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · Jun 2

What is a suit? Join us June 17 with Marren Hager for a night of conversation, craft + critique reimagining the suit through tailoring, sustainability + resistance.

📅 Tuesday 17 June, 7–9:30pm (Doors 6:30pm)
📍 The Southern Belle, Hove & online
🌍 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/subverting...

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · May 31

💛 We had such a wholesome session last Tuesday. We explored friendships, created an original friend map, reflected on questions such as how friendship tastes.

Thank you for coming and to @soofiya.bsky.social for making us feel welcome and inspiring us to make new friends and become better ones!

Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · May 19

Can we design friendship? Join designer & zine-maker Soofiya for an evening of drawing, mapping & rethinking how we connect beyond algorithms & apps.

📅 Tuesday 27 May, 7–9:30pm (Doors 6:30pm)
📍 The Southern Belle, Hove & online
🌍 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-mak...
#Workshop #Creativity

Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · May 8

🎭 At our Defending Arts and Culture next session, we focus on austerity, its effect on the culture of Brighton & Hove, and how we respond.

📅 Tue 13 May, 7–9:30pm
📍 The Southern Belle, Hove and online
Free www.eventbrite.com/e/defending-...

#Brighton #Arts #Culture

Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · May 7

Thanks to all who joined us for last night’s talk on modernism, literature & psychoanalysis; and to Helen Tyson for leading a vital convo on writing, art & politics.

Next week: Defending Arts & Culture in Brighton & Hove, with a panel of unions & arts orgs. www.eventbrite.com/e/1230059504...

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · Apr 28

Free entry - booking required www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-mo...

Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis & Bestsellers

A Conversation with Helen Tyson about the work of Woolf, Proust, and Freud; Bestselling romance novels and the works of Ethel M. Dell

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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · Apr 28

What if reading itself were a radical act? 📚

From Woolf’s child readers to Freud’s psychoanalysis, Helen Tyson’s new book explores how modernist writers staged the act of reading — and why it mattered.

Join us online and in person on 6 May at 7 pm.

#VirginiaWoolf #Modernism #Psychoanalysis

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Apr 14

A new left-wing board game puts players in the role of maniacal plutocrats trying to take over the world. Its creator, Max Haiven, explains how it responds to the wider phenomenon of ‘gamified capitalism’.

Radical Gaming

A new left-wing board game puts players in the role of maniacal plutocrats trying to take over the world. Its creator explains how it responds to the wider phenomenon of ‘gamified capitalism’.

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