WRITTEN ON November 27th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art, What do we want?
I see Liberty, the various Rowntree trusts and OpenDemocracy are doing a Modern Liberty convention on Feb 29th CORRECTION – 28th – see below. Thx]. Looks great (shame I’ll be abroad). But it is a does have some materials, including the Pet Shop Boys Integral video which I’ve been looking for for ages.
Curious that it falls to a frankly often slightly dreary band (named after a bizarre sexual practice involving small animals) to articuate with their pertinent art what we really feel about this thoughtless rush to a database state that takes the welfare state and joins is up with coercive government at its least attractive. Go Pet Shop Boys! But hey! PetShopBoys: leave them rodents alone!
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It’s worth noting that NO2ID, one of the sponsors of Modern Liberty, are organising break-out sessions in Manchester and elsewhere which will feature live webcasts of the speeches in London combined with localised discussion groups.
Thanks for the link Will, glad you like it. But it’s on the 28th not the 29th – it’s not a leap year!