Comments on: Return of the Equi Phallic Alliance! http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2005/10/return-of-the-equi-phallic-alliance/ John Eden: BM Box 3641, London, WC1N 3XX, England UK Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:32:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: uncarved.org blog » Blog Archive » blissblog on Bob Dickinson http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2005/10/return-of-the-equi-phallic-alliance/comment-page-1/#comment-621 uncarved.org blog » Blog Archive » blissblog on Bob Dickinson Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:59:41 +0000 http://www.uncarved.org/blog/?p=728#comment-621 [...] In the mid-90s, before the proliferation of the internet - a lot of people seemed to have access to DTP stuff and photocopying. There was an explosion of zines of all sorts of hues. I gravitated towards a kind of post- situ/neoist/mail art/occulture ultra-left milieu which included things like the Association of Autonomous Astronauts at its more accessible end, and the Equi Phallic and Neoist alliances at the other. I can’t begin to tell you how prolific and energised that scene was. Some of the texts are anthologised in Stewart Home’s Mind Invaders: A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage and Semiotic Terrorism (Serpents Tail) , alas without their graphics. [...] [...] In the mid-90s, before the proliferation of the internet - a lot of people seemed to have access to DTP stuff and photocopying. There was an explosion of zines of all sorts of hues. I gravitated towards a kind of post- situ/neoist/mail art/occulture ultra-left milieu which included things like the Association of Autonomous Astronauts at its more accessible end, and the Equi Phallic and Neoist alliances at the other. I can’t begin to tell you how prolific and energised that scene was. Some of the texts are anthologised in Stewart Home’s Mind Invaders: A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage and Semiotic Terrorism (Serpents Tail) , alas without their graphics. [...]

]]> By: paul http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2005/10/return-of-the-equi-phallic-alliance/comment-page-1/#comment-620 paul Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:36:31 +0000 http://www.uncarved.org/blog/?p=728#comment-620 Warning -- actual pagans need a massive dose of thick skin and humour to get anything out of this. Wiccans even more so. It really does cross the boundary between satire and feverish, mindless attack and I thought there was a depressing bleakness at the heart of it. It upset me for a day when I read it. Mind you it is Sahmain and there's a lot on at the moment so I might be somewhat sensitised.... Warning — actual pagans need a massive dose of thick skin and humour to get anything out of this. Wiccans even more so.

It really does cross the boundary between satire and feverish, mindless attack and I thought there was a depressing bleakness at the heart of it. It upset me for a day when I read it. Mind you it is Sahmain and there’s a lot on at the moment so I might be somewhat sensitised….

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