Exploding Appendix
@explodingappendix.bsky.social
Art & Research Group led by Bradley Tuck dedicated to exploring the history and future of avant-garde and radical counterculture // Making complex ideas accessible to all with our free in-person and online events. 📍Brighton, UK
📚 #Books are back in stock! Grab our #poetry #chapbooks: explodingappendix.bigcartel.com ‘Daughter of Death’, Roba Al-Sharif £8+P&P (50% go to Roba in Gaza) ‘A Voice Is A Delicate Thing', Charlotte Head £8+P&P (£2 to Medical Aid for Palestine). It’s been an honour to be able to publish these!
The end of an era! We are working on a new website, and we have now changed all our profile pictures from the old to the new logo designed by the talented @soofiya.bsky.social ! Exciting times, but also feels bittersweet to say goodbye to our old visual identity. Do you feel that too? #Branding
🌀 What happens when a group of people tries to move together using three metres of latex? Join us for a Disrupted Rhythms dance shoot, whether you'd like to perform or help capture the improvised dance there's a place for everyone. 📅 21 July, 7-9:30pm 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove 🎟 Free
Bradley shares what we will be discussing in our last session of the season this Tuesday: The #Encyclopaedia as #Montage: #Benjamin, #Bataille & #Queneau See you there! 📅 30 June, 7-9:30pm 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online 🎟 Free #surrealism #experimental www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-encycl...
📚 What if an #encyclopedia was less about answers and more about making unexpected connections? Last session of the season on fragments, #dictionaries, #montage, and #experimental rethinking. 📅30 June, 7-9:30pm, The Southern Belle, & Online.Free. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-encycl...
Today is World Sickle Cell Day! 🩸🌙 @inviswarriorscd.bsky.social invited us to run a #creative workshop x Great Exhibition Road Festival @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social We raised awareness about sickle cell & invisible disabilities, made zines & wrote wishes and pledges for our collaborative piece.
We are deeply saddened to hear that Lottie Head, the author of our latest chapbook “A Voice Is A Delicate Thing”, has been sentenced to 6 years in prison with terrorism charges along with three others, part of the Filton 25. Solidarity with Lottie, Fatema, Sam & Ellie. filtonactionists.com
@ferasalkabani.bsky.social join us to discuss his book. We'll talk about how cross-cultural encounters shaped understandings of #homosexuality from the 19th century to the aftermath of the Arab Spring. 📅 Tue, 9 June, 7pm 🌍The Southern Belle & Online 🎟 #Free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-bu...
Delighted to announce that my first monograph, Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire, is now available in paperback 🎊 Get your copy for only £23.19 📕📘 📚 (with this discount code: GLR BD8) directly from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/richard-b...
In 2023, we talked to Fidge Bibblyotek Never Work Zine, MNamug & Nuria Castro @aghhzine.bsky.social & @soofiya.bsky.social about the multifaceted nature of zines as cultural artefacts, and the creative, political, and social dimensions of zines as intimate, DIY, and community-driven publications.
📽️Here’s a snippet of the podcast where we talk with Sussex English faculty professor Helen Tyson about how early #20th-century writers imagined the act of reading itself, & how reading became a site of transformation, conflict, & meaning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvD2... #Modernism #Literature
In celebration of International Workers' Day, we've discounted everything on our website, including books on the histories of revolution and revolt that radically imagine what our futures can hold. Shop our Red May Sale, with up to 40% off all books!
Red May Sale | Up to 40% off all books
“Not a penny off the pay, not an hour on the day!” This was the slogan that galvanised the 1926 General Strike, a moment where workers moved to take control of their workplaces, communities and lives....
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Next session we turn to the lesser-known stage and film work of the #Bauhaus, exploring how movement, rhythm, and abstraction reshape the human figure. From "Triadic Ballet" to early abstract cinema. 📅 Tue 19 May, 7pm 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online 🎟 Free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bauhaus-fi...
✒️Watch Charlotte Head read her poems from our latest poetry pamphlet, “A Voice Is A Delicate Thing”, and get to know more about the process behind her work and her experiences whilst being incarcerated. 🎧Watch the full podcast on YouTube: youtu.be/stGuIKjNuE4?... #Poetry #BookLaunch #Reading
📚Thank you to everyone who has come today and specially to Charlotte Head for sharing her words and experience so honestly with us💕 ✒️It's been such a powerful evening and we are so honoured to be able to hold spaces for these important conversations. #poetry #booklaunch #reading
A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)
A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)
It’s a sad fact that the vast majority of silent movies in Japan have been lost thanks to human carelessness, earthquakes and the grim efficiency of the United States Air Force. The first films of hug...
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Second book launch this month: A Voice Is A Delicate Thing” by Charlotte Head. Charlotte Head has written these poems in this book whilst in prison for trying to stop weapons from being made in the UK for Israel’s g€nocide in Gaza. 📅 31 March, 6-7pm 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online 🎟 Free
Next Tuesday, we'll explore the suffrage era as a moment of artistic and political experimentation. We’ll trace how struggles to extend the vote to women & the working classes intersected with modernist aesthetics, revolutionary politics & lived experience. Free www.eventbrite.com/e/1981998677...
✒️Chris Dobson, our Publishing Director, shares his process about how published our first poetry chapbook by Palestinian poet Roba Al-Sharif. 📚Support to Chris & Roba by getting a copy of the book and coming to our launch this evening to hear directly from Roba herself! #Publishing #Poetrybook
Join us for this online launch with readings from Palestinian poet Roba Al-Sharif, joining us from Gaza. Roba will be reading poems from “Daughter of Death”, which is our latest publishing venture led by Chris Dobson. 📅Tue, 10 Mar, 7pm 🌍Online 🎟Free www.eventbrite.com/e/online-lau... #launch
🤩Our February-July programme is now live! All events are: 📆On Tuesdays 🆓Free and open to all ⏰7pm 📖Both online & in-person at The Shouthern Belle, Hove(unless specified). 🔗Book your tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/exploding-... 👀Let us know which sessions you are looking forward to attending #Free
🎙️ Podcast 52: We speak with Esther Leslie & Sam Dolbear about their book “Dissonant Waves” on Ernst Schoen (radio producer, composer, and friend of Walter Benjamin), tracing exile, politics, and sound across the twentieth century. 🎧 Out now on YouTube + SoundCloud. #Posdcast #Sound #ErnstSchoen
Our Call for Abstracts for 2026 MDN events is open until 20 Feb! marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/m... From our archives - Scott Ritchie: Holding mad kids in community: Resisting Capitalism’s Disabling Processes in a Primary Grades Classroom marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2023/09/16/s...
Corporations control the internet, so grassroots media workers are creating in-person spaces to build collective power.
The Web Is Not Enough — Why These Left Media Workers Are Opening Physical Spaces
Corporations control the internet, so grassroots media workers are creating in-person spaces to build collective power.
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🗣️Next week! We’ll review the year, share plans, introduce publishing updates, and invite proposals as we shape the future of EA together. 📅 Tuesday, 24 February 2026, 7 pm 🌍 The Southern Belle, Hove. Online only upon request. 🎟 Free, all welcome! www.eventbrite.com/e/exploding-... #Brighton
📚What we got up to last Tuesday at our manifesto workshop. We looked into the structure and guide questions we could answer in a manifesto, examples throughout history, different formats, and then we made our own. ✂️We also played with different creative ways to create a collaborative manifesto #art
🤗We are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow for our first session of 2026 ✒️Bradley tells you more about what we’ll be doing at the manifesto workshop tomorrow. If you were to write a manifesto what will it be about? 🤩 📅 Tue, 3 Feb 2026, 7 pm 🌍 The Southern Belle, Hove & Online. 🎟 Free #Art
