Spatial Awareness
It was growing up at the fag-end of Thatcher’s Britain that inspired it. This feeling that so many people evidently shared that our towns and cities were letting us down and weren’t as good as they could and should be. It was the culmination of my teenage years spent listening to Morrissey, wanting excitement desperately, but the only place to go out in the evening being Morecambe. I spent horrible evenings there, always waiting, it seemed, waiting for taxis, waiting to be let into dreadful nightclubs, looking out over that desolate promenade, battered by the wind, scared that I was going to be beaten up…
On the fifth anniversary of its publication, Andrew Stevens talks to Crap Towns co-editor Sam Jordison.
Good Riddance Lenin!
Toni Negri has been an important, sympathetic intelligence for most of my adult life. He has also shown a great courage over that time. In the 1960s and early 70s he was acclaimed as a wide-ranging academic in the academic world. By 1979 he was accused of being “morally responsible” for the violence of the Red Brigades, a highly infiltrated Bolshevik style urban guerrilla group with whom he would have little in common. His crime, which he repeats in this book, to say that resistance to state and capitalist oppression might involve violence, and that this was justified. This lead to many years of exile in France and imprisonment in Italy.
John Barker on Antonio Negri.
Five for Denis Browne
Denis Browne, Sid and Nancy associate and Alexander Trocchi‘s literary assistant in later life, answered some questions on this era for Andrew Stevens. 3:AM: To what extent were you involved with Trocchi? DB: It soon became pretty clear that he had a terminal case of writer’s block, and it wasn’t long till I realised that […]