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- Street:
- 5 Caledonian Road
- Postcode:
- N1 9DX
- City:
- Kings Cross
- Area/Borough:
- London
Description
The Public Reading Rooms
"The true, greatly misunderstood collector is always anarchistic, destructive. For this is its
dialectics: to combine with loyalty to an object, to individual items, to things sheltered in his care, a stubborn subversive protest against the typical, the classifiable" Walter Benjamin.
At the end of August the Porcupine Bookcellar in Kings Cross will close its doors for the last time. In its place will arise The Public Reading Rooms. It will have the following objectives:
1] This will be a project which will archive and document the many lost causes and small movements which litter our collective existence. The material covered will be pamphlets, books, magazines, badges, photographs and posters. Areas archived will include: the situs, underground newspapers, fanzines, the sixties, class war, solidarity, anarchy, left communism, conscientious objection, Maoism in England, rock against racism, Peter Kennard, Clifford Harper, deviant trotskyism, Walter Benjamin, radical feminism, squatting, Frank Zappa, lesbian separatism and the 1970s mens movement and many others.
2] Together with PM Press from the States we will publish short runs of books, magazines and posters. Our first publication will be the third issue of Icteric - a political/art/anti-art journal whose first two issues were published in the mid 1960s.
3] A cinema club - in alliance with the Rochester Film Salon we will show a series of interesting and unusual films with a discussion element.
4] Regular events, parties and an annual conference in association the with South Place Ethical Society at Conway Hall. The first Public Reading Rooms conference was the May 68 event on May 10th 2008.
5] Outreach lectures to schools and colleges - to spread the word on the subjects that concern us.
6] A website which will archive the oral history of these movements - with interviews and film.
"The true, greatly misunderstood collector is always anarchistic, destructive. For this is its
dialectics: to combine with loyalty to an object, to individual items, to things sheltered in his care, a stubborn subversive protest against the typical, the classifiable" Walter Benjamin.
At the end of August the Porcupine Bookcellar in Kings Cross will close its doors for the last time. In its place will arise The Public Reading Rooms. It will have the following objectives:
1] This will be a project which will archive and document the many lost causes and small movements which litter our collective existence. The material covered will be pamphlets, books, magazines, badges, photographs and posters. Areas archived will include: the situs, underground newspapers, fanzines, the sixties, class war, solidarity, anarchy, left communism, conscientious objection, Maoism in England, rock against racism, Peter Kennard, Clifford Harper, deviant trotskyism, Walter Benjamin, radical feminism, squatting, Frank Zappa, lesbian separatism and the 1970s mens movement and many others.
2] Together with PM Press from the States we will publish short runs of books, magazines and posters. Our first publication will be the third issue of Icteric - a political/art/anti-art journal whose first two issues were published in the mid 1960s.
3] A cinema club - in alliance with the Rochester Film Salon we will show a series of interesting and unusual films with a discussion element.
4] Regular events, parties and an annual conference in association the with South Place Ethical Society at Conway Hall. The first Public Reading Rooms conference was the May 68 event on May 10th 2008.
5] Outreach lectures to schools and colleges - to spread the word on the subjects that concern us.
6] A website which will archive the oral history of these movements - with interviews and film.
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