July 30, 2025
The Facing Autonomy collective take their name from both the 1956 book Facing Reality, co-authored by, amongst others, C.L.R. James and Cornelius Castoriadis, which brought together […]
July 9, 2025
On August 9th 1969, Charles ‘Tex’ Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Linda Kasabian broke into the gated home of the actress Sharon Tate, which she […]
June 25, 2025
Podcast 41: Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Interactive Conversation with Tom Bunyard
The Situationist International (S.I.) was a political and social movement that ran from 1957 to 1972 that attempted to synthesise elements of Marxism and anarchist themes […]
June 11, 2025
We are joined by poet and scholar Keston Sutherland to discuss the poetic language used in the works of Marx. In an essay entitled ‘The poetics […]
February 10, 2025
Exploding Appendix is back for our Spring season 2025 As always, all are welcome to our free sessions which take place every three weeks on a […]
February 8, 2025
What is a suit? What is its history? What is its symbolic value? How does the suit intersect with class, social status, gender, sexuality, and labour? […]
February 5, 2025
In early twentieth-century literature, scenes of reading offer a fascinating glimpse at how modernist writers viewed the act of reading itself and understood the challenges posed […]
February 5, 2025
Children don’t just read books—they gnaw at the edges, rip, tear, and colour them in. While reading is often viewed as a disembodied act, Victorian movable […]
February 5, 2025
Brighton & Hove is a city brimming with creativity, yet over the past decade, it has faced a series of crises—gallery closures, disappearing spaces, and increasing […]
February 4, 2025
Groove music is the music of our age. […] The sounds emanating from the earphones of the millions of iPods and other audio devices that are […]
February 3, 2025
David Lynch’s painting Bob Finds Himself in a World for Which He has No Understanding (2000) feels like it could be read as alongside his films, almost as […]
February 3, 2025
“Whitehawk is one of the UK’s most deprived communities, but under the tarmac and Terrace houses lie the remains of one of the UK’s most important […]
February 3, 2025
. In 2018, Daniel & Clara’s films shifted from brightly coloured, alchemical, magical motion pictures to a focus on British landscapes and the figures that inhabit […]
October 3, 2024
In this session, we will be joined by Lucy Jefferies (Quiet Down there), Susie Deadman (Sew Fabulous), Jenny Staff (artist at the Phoenix), Kasia Zermon (The […]
October 3, 2024
. In this session, Bradley Tuck from Exploding Appendix will introduce the idea for a project to compile a selection of Manifestos for Brighton, Hove, and […]
September 6, 2024
. Exploding Appendix is back for our Autumn season 2024. As always, all are welcome to our free sessions which take place every three weeks on […]
September 6, 2024
In time-honored tradition, Exploding Appendix invites you to their sixth night of art, anti-art, participatory creativity, and revelry! Inspired by the legendary Dadaist nightclub, Cabaret Voltaire—founded […]
September 6, 2024
This week we will be diving into the surreal and visually cathartic world of renowned filmmaker, poet, theatre director, graphic novelist, tarot reader and psychotherapist Alejandro […]
September 6, 2024
. In the first session of our “Critical Concepts” series, we will explore the meaning of class. Through a conversational approach, we will blend personal anecdotes […]
September 6, 2024
. In 1929, after expelling Georges Bataille from the Surrealist movement, André Breton denounced him as an “excrement-philosopher.” As Benjamin Noys notes, “Bataille would have probably […]
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