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Radical Anthropology

Radical Anthropology goes to the pub after Easter!

Our next session is a new departure: a poetry reading by our Alternative Radical #Poet Laureate, #PaulDave.
A MONDAY special!
🌑April 28 🌒from 6 onward over the famed Two Chairmen pub in Dartmouth St, SW1H 9BP. Just come upstairs, FREE to all.

Come for food, drink and healthy discussion on the topics of #Englishness and #ComedyCommunism! RAG's scientific theory is featured strongly in this amazing epic. Funny how our cutting edge science of human origins is often ignored by the Royal Society but taken up by celebrated artists and poets!

Paul Dave is a poet with an unhealthy interest in England. Larkin’s Toilet is an epic autobiography concerned with national origins and change. It explores some of the most influential official voices of English poetry in the context of our current emergencies. As an epic rather than surveying the heroic birth of a nation it is preoccupied with the ongoing failure of a nation to be born, but is in no way entirely convinced in the desirablilty of such a birth. It is therefore a poem that records a struggle in the subjectivity of the poet and in his historical materials. Its structuring ideas are borrowed from radical evolutionary anthropology, political marxism and comedy communism.

Everybody welcome! We will run our ZOOM if you can't get there (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)

Poster for a poetry reading of 'Larkin's Toilet' by Paul Dave on a theme of comedy communism. It takes place on Monday April 28, from 6:30-10 at the Two chairmen pub Dartmouth St, SW1H 9BP. the Moon hovers at the top on a blood red background. A sketch of Radical Anthropology's lunar-phased theory of human origins is seen at the bottom
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Today in Labor History March 25, 1957: U.S. Customs seized copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and City Lights manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for publishing and distributing the poem. Howl was inspired, in part, by a terrifying peyote vision Ginsberg had in which the façade of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, in San Francisco, appeared as the monstrous face of a child-eating demon. The obscenity charges stemmed from homophobic responses to his explicit references to homosexuality. Ginsberg’s first experience with LSD, as well as Kerouac’s and Burroughs’s, was with acid provided by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, one-time husband of and long-time collaborator with Margaret Mead. You can read more about Bateson and Mead’s early experimentation with, and promotion of, psychedelics (and their collaboration with the CIA) in the recent book, “Tripping on Utopia.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #poetry #howl #lgbtq #allenginsburg #homophobia #lawrenceferlinghetti #citylights #obscenity #censorship #bannedbooks #kerouac #williamburoughs #lsd #peyote #margaretmead #gregorybateson #psycheldelics #books #writer #author #poet @bookstadon

Howl and Other Poems was published in the fall of 1956 as number four in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books. By Lawrence Ferlinghetti (source) - AbeBooks.com entry (jpg). Cropped and minor color correction in PhotoShop, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80296195
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Today in Labor History March 25, 1811: Oxford University expelled Percy Bysshe Shelley for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. Shelley was an English Romantic poet, radical in both his art and his politics. His poem "The Mask of Anarchy," which he wrote in 1819 after the Peterloo Massacre, is one of the first modern descriptions of nonviolent resistance. His admirers included Karl Marx, Gandhi and George Bernard Shaw. He was married to Mary Shelley, author of “Frankenstein.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchy #anarchism #atheism #marx #poetry #peterloo #massecre #PercyBisheShelley #gandhi #MaryShelley #frankenstein #writer #author #books #fiction #poet @bookstadon

Portrait of Shelley, by Alfred Clint (1829). By After Amelia Curran – one or more third parties have made copyright claims against Wikimedia Commons in relation to the work from which this is sourced or a purely mechanical reproduction thereof. This may be due to recognition of the "sweat of the brow" doctrine, allowing works to be eligible for protection through skill and labour, and not purely by originality as is the case in the United States (where this website is hosted). These claims may or may not be valid in all jurisdictions.As such, use of this image in the jurisdiction of the claimant or other countries may be regarded as copyright infringement. Please see Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag for more information., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6370522
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