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Love is The Work
This week’s newsletter is the first in a two-part series about birth and death, the people who care for us as we enter and leave this world, and why we should all be a bit more doula.
Work
This week’s newsletter is the first in a two-part series about birth and death, the people who care for us as we enter and leave this world, and why we should all be a bit more doula.
Democracy
Step aside Donny and Nigel. It's time for the Zohran and Zack show.
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We've spent the whole time with the theme tune to Good Neighbours going around in our heads...
Belonging
Loud voices are calling for 'cultural coherence' and yet they seem to have short memories...
Culture
THE FETE OF BRITAIN | GOOD NEIGHBOURS | HEY! FESTIVAL over the space of 14 days in October. Phew!
Culture
A guest post from our great friend and collaborator Josephine Burton, artistic director and chief executive at Dash Arts.
A guest post from Cooperation Hull organiser Gully Bujak on why we need a people-led approach to our political problems.
It’s time to do the previously unthinkable: get over ourselves, and start actually working with each other.
Right and left have failed us, and the centre cannot hold. Are you tired of pretending the slo-mo disaster movie doesn’t star us? And are you ready to do the previously unthinkable? Part one of two: the broken models of behaviour we need to escape.
A plan to broaden people’s perspectives by offering a new vision for what the future could be.
Those of us who have been around the movement for many years can think back to a time we would tell ourselves, “When rich people in LA start losing their homes, things will change”...
David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules
A guest post by Nicholas Royle, author of 'David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine'.
Why we need to bring the Ocean out from behind the closed doors of Brussels.
There’s still much to learn from our relationship with national symbols.
Trigger warning: this post contains flags. This article answers three questions about the Fête of Britain graphic identity we believe are fundamental to the work of Absurd Intelligence: 1. What the fuck do you mean, “Britain”? 2. And what’s with the Union Jack? or, rather 3. How will we
The stories we've been sharing in our Signal group helping shape our thinking: now for you!
‘If you want peace don’t talk to your friends. Talk to your enemies.’ - Desmond Tutu
Our Convention on the Fate of Britain was a party for the people who keep the country running.
Does reducing help to the poorest really defend us?
It can and should be used to express our might.
This is what protest is all about.
A chance to connect with other organisers, campaigners, artists, makers and doers on what comes next.
Since 2024, Absurd Intelligence has worked with the Hard Art network to put on The Fête of Britain, a joyous, riotous invitation to be part of what comes next.