Seth Dresden Wheeler
@sethnotes.bsky.social
Researching for MayDay Rooms (London) & the Working Class Movement Library (Salford)
Publishing with https://agitpress.net/
Experimental politics & culture
At war with the planetary work machine since 1974 ☭
Slowly writing a book about the ‘Global 1977’
Publishing with https://agitpress.net/
Experimental politics & culture
At war with the planetary work machine since 1974 ☭
Slowly writing a book about the ‘Global 1977’
… by the time the Pistols split - a movement had arisen to answer their call - CRASS lead the way - lighting a touch paper igniting a cultural revolution - the effects still felt today
The CRASS poster below was pasted outside London’s infamous Roxy Club 👇
The CRASS poster below was pasted outside London’s infamous Roxy Club 👇
March 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
… by the time the Pistols split - a movement had arisen to answer their call - CRASS lead the way - lighting a touch paper igniting a cultural revolution - the effects still felt today
The CRASS poster below was pasted outside London’s infamous Roxy Club 👇
The CRASS poster below was pasted outside London’s infamous Roxy Club 👇
I love this photo
Lydon and Sidney in Berlin 1977
John stares down the camera -dead cold & dead cool- he’s stood directly in front of a ‘wanted anarchists’ poster -the poster offering a cash reward for information that may lead to the capture of the R.A.F - Sid swigs from a bottle …
Lydon and Sidney in Berlin 1977
John stares down the camera -dead cold & dead cool- he’s stood directly in front of a ‘wanted anarchists’ poster -the poster offering a cash reward for information that may lead to the capture of the R.A.F - Sid swigs from a bottle …
March 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I love this photo
Lydon and Sidney in Berlin 1977
John stares down the camera -dead cold & dead cool- he’s stood directly in front of a ‘wanted anarchists’ poster -the poster offering a cash reward for information that may lead to the capture of the R.A.F - Sid swigs from a bottle …
Lydon and Sidney in Berlin 1977
John stares down the camera -dead cold & dead cool- he’s stood directly in front of a ‘wanted anarchists’ poster -the poster offering a cash reward for information that may lead to the capture of the R.A.F - Sid swigs from a bottle …
I’ll be talking at this at MayDay Rooms - Wed 26th - 6.30 pm
Hope to see some of you there 👇❤️🖤
Hope to see some of you there 👇❤️🖤
March 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I’ll be talking at this at MayDay Rooms - Wed 26th - 6.30 pm
Hope to see some of you there 👇❤️🖤
Hope to see some of you there 👇❤️🖤
The Call to Arms.
Answered by thousands during the cultural revolt of 1977
Answered by thousands during the cultural revolt of 1977
March 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The Call to Arms.
Answered by thousands during the cultural revolt of 1977
Answered by thousands during the cultural revolt of 1977
For a decade or two, the music press acted as a popular alternate curriculum, introducing a generation or two to radical politics, wider reading and alternate/submerged histories.
If you weren’t of the class who saw higher education as either guaranteed or a natural birth right-it was invaluable.
If you weren’t of the class who saw higher education as either guaranteed or a natural birth right-it was invaluable.
March 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
For a decade or two, the music press acted as a popular alternate curriculum, introducing a generation or two to radical politics, wider reading and alternate/submerged histories.
If you weren’t of the class who saw higher education as either guaranteed or a natural birth right-it was invaluable.
If you weren’t of the class who saw higher education as either guaranteed or a natural birth right-it was invaluable.
More archival gold from the MayDay Rooms huge eco-anarchist collection
Pictured👇MayDay’s large collection of Fifth Estate Journals - dating from 1977 to 2004
Actualise Industrial Collapse Motherfuckers!
Pictured👇MayDay’s large collection of Fifth Estate Journals - dating from 1977 to 2004
Actualise Industrial Collapse Motherfuckers!
February 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
More archival gold from the MayDay Rooms huge eco-anarchist collection
Pictured👇MayDay’s large collection of Fifth Estate Journals - dating from 1977 to 2004
Actualise Industrial Collapse Motherfuckers!
Pictured👇MayDay’s large collection of Fifth Estate Journals - dating from 1977 to 2004
Actualise Industrial Collapse Motherfuckers!
Cop Killer -1983- Dir.
Roberto Faenza
A criminally forgotten sleaze ball classic.
A serial killer vs tough cop storyline starring Harvey Keitel & .…. Johnny fucking Rotton! Who is … surprisingly good.
Has a great score by Morriconi to boot
m.youtube.com/watch?v=z1U4...
Roberto Faenza
A criminally forgotten sleaze ball classic.
A serial killer vs tough cop storyline starring Harvey Keitel & .…. Johnny fucking Rotton! Who is … surprisingly good.
Has a great score by Morriconi to boot
m.youtube.com/watch?v=z1U4...
February 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Cop Killer -1983- Dir.
Roberto Faenza
A criminally forgotten sleaze ball classic.
A serial killer vs tough cop storyline starring Harvey Keitel & .…. Johnny fucking Rotton! Who is … surprisingly good.
Has a great score by Morriconi to boot
m.youtube.com/watch?v=z1U4...
Roberto Faenza
A criminally forgotten sleaze ball classic.
A serial killer vs tough cop storyline starring Harvey Keitel & .…. Johnny fucking Rotton! Who is … surprisingly good.
Has a great score by Morriconi to boot
m.youtube.com/watch?v=z1U4...
The Loombreaker - a late 90s/early 00s Mancunian based militant eco news bulletin
No generals but Ludd! No captain but Swing!
No generals but Ludd! No captain but Swing!
February 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The Loombreaker - a late 90s/early 00s Mancunian based militant eco news bulletin
No generals but Ludd! No captain but Swing!
No generals but Ludd! No captain but Swing!
A fine example of American post-situationist engagement within the electoral farce
Beats any burn Bernie could produce …
Beats any burn Bernie could produce …
February 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A fine example of American post-situationist engagement within the electoral farce
Beats any burn Bernie could produce …
Beats any burn Bernie could produce …
Runs of ‘Live Wild or Die!, Species Traitor, Treeflesh, a few copies of Resistance - the Journal of the N.American E.L.F’ and a large run of Anarchy- A Journal of Desire Armed - all held in MayDay Room’s huge eco-anarchist collection
Actualise Industrial Collapse motherfuckers!
💚🖤❤️✊🔥
Actualise Industrial Collapse motherfuckers!
💚🖤❤️✊🔥
February 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Runs of ‘Live Wild or Die!, Species Traitor, Treeflesh, a few copies of Resistance - the Journal of the N.American E.L.F’ and a large run of Anarchy- A Journal of Desire Armed - all held in MayDay Room’s huge eco-anarchist collection
Actualise Industrial Collapse motherfuckers!
💚🖤❤️✊🔥
Actualise Industrial Collapse motherfuckers!
💚🖤❤️✊🔥
On this Day -
London’s Antiuniversity opens Feb 12th 1968
The proposed faculty included- Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Stokely Carmichel, C.L.R James …
London’s Antiuniversity opens Feb 12th 1968
The proposed faculty included- Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Stokely Carmichel, C.L.R James …
February 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
On this Day -
London’s Antiuniversity opens Feb 12th 1968
The proposed faculty included- Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Stokely Carmichel, C.L.R James …
London’s Antiuniversity opens Feb 12th 1968
The proposed faculty included- Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Stokely Carmichel, C.L.R James …
Unpacking the huge bundle of gifts we recieved while visiting our comrades in Bologna - including an excellent account of late 90s/early 00s hacking and media activism - entitled ‘+KAOS’ given to us by our dear friends at @grafton9.net ❤️🖤✊🔥
January 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Unpacking the huge bundle of gifts we recieved while visiting our comrades in Bologna - including an excellent account of late 90s/early 00s hacking and media activism - entitled ‘+KAOS’ given to us by our dear friends at @grafton9.net ❤️🖤✊🔥
Bologna archival haul!
A near full run of the early 2000s anti-industrial society journal ‘Los Amigos De Ludd’ and a cool anthology of Clodo communiques
A near full run of the early 2000s anti-industrial society journal ‘Los Amigos De Ludd’ and a cool anthology of Clodo communiques
January 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Bologna archival haul!
A near full run of the early 2000s anti-industrial society journal ‘Los Amigos De Ludd’ and a cool anthology of Clodo communiques
A near full run of the early 2000s anti-industrial society journal ‘Los Amigos De Ludd’ and a cool anthology of Clodo communiques
Bologna, we are with you tomorrow
We have a meeting with uncle Bifo but other than that we are footloose and fancy free
Give me or @jamsqu.bsky.social a shout if you fancy a spritz at Ortica
We have a meeting with uncle Bifo but other than that we are footloose and fancy free
Give me or @jamsqu.bsky.social a shout if you fancy a spritz at Ortica
January 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Bologna, we are with you tomorrow
We have a meeting with uncle Bifo but other than that we are footloose and fancy free
Give me or @jamsqu.bsky.social a shout if you fancy a spritz at Ortica
We have a meeting with uncle Bifo but other than that we are footloose and fancy free
Give me or @jamsqu.bsky.social a shout if you fancy a spritz at Ortica
A review copy of Jasper’s new book -coming out soon on @versobooks.bsky.social - arrived in the post today. I’m only 20 pages in and it’s clarifying a lot I had somehow buried during the soc dem confusions of the last decade. Essential essential reading ❤️🖤✊
January 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A review copy of Jasper’s new book -coming out soon on @versobooks.bsky.social - arrived in the post today. I’m only 20 pages in and it’s clarifying a lot I had somehow buried during the soc dem confusions of the last decade. Essential essential reading ❤️🖤✊
Today is Dalston Solidarity Café’s 3rd Anniversary! 🥳
Join Trans Fem Social, Lambeth Mutual Aid, Bristol Sol Café -among others- to a talk about free community space & how we keep them going
Halk Evi, 31-33 Dalston Lane E8 3DF
🥘 Free food from 2 - 8pm
⏰ Discussion- 4 - 6pm
Join Trans Fem Social, Lambeth Mutual Aid, Bristol Sol Café -among others- to a talk about free community space & how we keep them going
Halk Evi, 31-33 Dalston Lane E8 3DF
🥘 Free food from 2 - 8pm
⏰ Discussion- 4 - 6pm
December 14, 2024 at 8:25 AM
Today is Dalston Solidarity Café’s 3rd Anniversary! 🥳
Join Trans Fem Social, Lambeth Mutual Aid, Bristol Sol Café -among others- to a talk about free community space & how we keep them going
Halk Evi, 31-33 Dalston Lane E8 3DF
🥘 Free food from 2 - 8pm
⏰ Discussion- 4 - 6pm
Join Trans Fem Social, Lambeth Mutual Aid, Bristol Sol Café -among others- to a talk about free community space & how we keep them going
Halk Evi, 31-33 Dalston Lane E8 3DF
🥘 Free food from 2 - 8pm
⏰ Discussion- 4 - 6pm
5/20
Kirby/Lee Thor run.
No one drew comics like Jack. Big hands, terrible perspectives, bonkers monsters- the king of pop modernism
Kirby/Lee Thor run.
No one drew comics like Jack. Big hands, terrible perspectives, bonkers monsters- the king of pop modernism
November 30, 2024 at 3:15 PM
5/20
Kirby/Lee Thor run.
No one drew comics like Jack. Big hands, terrible perspectives, bonkers monsters- the king of pop modernism
Kirby/Lee Thor run.
No one drew comics like Jack. Big hands, terrible perspectives, bonkers monsters- the king of pop modernism
4/20
Burroughs’ Cities of the Red Night
Time travel, the golden age of piracy, fever visions, oodles of opium, raw sex, a high adventure against control
Burroughs’ Cities of the Red Night
Time travel, the golden age of piracy, fever visions, oodles of opium, raw sex, a high adventure against control
November 30, 2024 at 10:04 AM
4/20
Burroughs’ Cities of the Red Night
Time travel, the golden age of piracy, fever visions, oodles of opium, raw sex, a high adventure against control
Burroughs’ Cities of the Red Night
Time travel, the golden age of piracy, fever visions, oodles of opium, raw sex, a high adventure against control
3/20
Camatte - This world We Must Leave.
Invariant since 1848 you say?
Ha, invariant since the dawn of time I say.
Camatte - This world We Must Leave.
Invariant since 1848 you say?
Ha, invariant since the dawn of time I say.
November 30, 2024 at 9:55 AM
3/20
Camatte - This world We Must Leave.
Invariant since 1848 you say?
Ha, invariant since the dawn of time I say.
Camatte - This world We Must Leave.
Invariant since 1848 you say?
Ha, invariant since the dawn of time I say.
If you’re in London- this is happening tomorrow
November 29, 2024 at 11:26 AM
If you’re in London- this is happening tomorrow
2/20
Book 2 - in no particular order
Ballestrini’s ‘The Unseen’.
No grammar, no surrender
Book 2 - in no particular order
Ballestrini’s ‘The Unseen’.
No grammar, no surrender
November 29, 2024 at 11:23 AM
2/20
Book 2 - in no particular order
Ballestrini’s ‘The Unseen’.
No grammar, no surrender
Book 2 - in no particular order
Ballestrini’s ‘The Unseen’.
No grammar, no surrender
The book will feature Bifo’s encounters with this man and this band 👇👇- among many many others! 🔥
November 27, 2024 at 9:41 PM
The book will feature Bifo’s encounters with this man and this band 👇👇- among many many others! 🔥
Some News
@jamsqu.bsky.social & I are about to commence on a new project with Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, exploring his time in & around New York’s ‘No Wave’ scene of the early ‘80s
The text will reflect on Italy’s autonomists in exile & the global wave of cultural autonomy unleashed by punk’s arrival
@jamsqu.bsky.social & I are about to commence on a new project with Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, exploring his time in & around New York’s ‘No Wave’ scene of the early ‘80s
The text will reflect on Italy’s autonomists in exile & the global wave of cultural autonomy unleashed by punk’s arrival
November 27, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Some News
@jamsqu.bsky.social & I are about to commence on a new project with Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, exploring his time in & around New York’s ‘No Wave’ scene of the early ‘80s
The text will reflect on Italy’s autonomists in exile & the global wave of cultural autonomy unleashed by punk’s arrival
@jamsqu.bsky.social & I are about to commence on a new project with Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, exploring his time in & around New York’s ‘No Wave’ scene of the early ‘80s
The text will reflect on Italy’s autonomists in exile & the global wave of cultural autonomy unleashed by punk’s arrival
Here’s a nice pic of our pal Bobby Gillespie holding a copy of the Bifo book that @jamsqu.bsky.social and I edited and that Bobby wrote a preface for.
A few copies are still available to buy via agitpress.net ❤️🖤✊🔥
A few copies are still available to buy via agitpress.net ❤️🖤✊🔥
November 27, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Here’s a nice pic of our pal Bobby Gillespie holding a copy of the Bifo book that @jamsqu.bsky.social and I edited and that Bobby wrote a preface for.
A few copies are still available to buy via agitpress.net ❤️🖤✊🔥
A few copies are still available to buy via agitpress.net ❤️🖤✊🔥