James Bridle

@jamesbridle

Prewar Artist. Author of NEW DARK AGE (Verso, 2018) and WAYS OF BEING (Penguin/FSG, 2022). He/They.

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    3 Jul 2019

    No Borders. No Carbon. Its going to take us a long time to work out how to get there, but if those aren't our baseline goals, then we are merely making the situation worse. Start thinking, helping, learning, educating.

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  2. Retweeted
    May 14

    New Session is live: a collection of queer and trans works, only accessible via telnet. Works on all computers, from the Apple II of the 70s to modern PCs. learn how to connect: for the people who know: telnet

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  3. Sep 8

    There's others I could mention of course, but despite everything, it really is exciting times. And none of you are ready for 's magical 'At Certain Points We Touch'... coming soon...

    "Lauren John Joseph is a rare talent, and At Certain Points We Touch is a rare book: joyous, whip-smart and heart-breaking", bags a "razor-sharp" novel from ! Find out more here:
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  4. Sep 8

    And ' 'What it feels like for a Girl' is one of the best of this year, alongside ' 'Detransition, Baby', a novel of such extraordinary depth, power, and beauty, that I am still processing it months later.

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  5. Sep 8

    While I'm at it I've been meaning to say that Jordy Rosenberg's 'Confessions of the Fox' and Andrea Lawlor's 'Paul takes the form of a Mortal Girl' were my two favourite novels of last year, both stunning in their own way

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  6. Sep 8

    'The Transgender Issue' by is a really fantastic book: extraordinarily well-written, clear, passionate, and engaging. Should be required reading for all politicians, journalists, and care workers, and you should probably read it too.

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    Sep 4

    Over 60 people were picked up outside yesterday morning by the Turkish Coast Guard, after being abandoned at sea in two life rafts by the Hellenic Coast Guard... It’s strange that European politicians find these atrocities okay. No one's lifting a finger to stop them.

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  8. Retweeted
    Aug 6

    Yesterday, we watched the Prime Minister’s speech, which left us stunned, with a “goodnight and good luck” hanging over us, and a vague reference to the climate crisis, from which we must save our country.

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    Jul 21

    The most famous Greek on the planet today is and of African descent, while in 2009 he didn't even have Greek citizenship despite growing up in . PAPERS AND CITIZENSHIP TO ALL MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES NOW

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  10. Jul 20

    Said CEO - now head of art at Chanel - also released a statement warning artists they should be careful who they called out; unlike wealthy people who should apparently be free to fund the surveillance, intimidation, and abuse of journalists and human rights activists at will.

    a wee reminder, now that the Israeli spyware firm is back in the news, that the CEO of the Serpentine Galleries had to resign when it turned out she was a major shareholder in the company, managed by her husband, that owned it
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  11. Jul 18

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  12. Jul 15

    So sorry to hear this, and all the love and solidarity to those close to Dawn. Her life and her work will continue to be an example to so many.

    We are immensely saddened to announce that our dear friend died suddenly at home this week, related to her long-term illness. I, and I know many of you, loved her deeply, and it is a terrible loss.
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  13. Jul 14

    "How not to exclude artist parents", an excellent resource and relevant beyond the arts, is now available in 16 languages and audio. 🙏 to and all the writers and translators.

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  14. Jul 13

    Having been subjected to exactly this kind of reactionary, colonialist, pseudo-bureaucratic, violent censorship myself, I know that it is both intellectually bankrupt and incredibly, personally traumatic. Full solidarity with Gabriella Hirst, fuck the council (and the Empire).

    ‘An English Garden’ has been removed earlier than scheduled. You can read TOW’s full statement via the link here: image credit: Anna Lukala
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  15. May 25

    . Against apartheid, and the legitimisation of apartheid through culture.

    A bright pink and brown block colour backgrounds with bold cream text. The text says: We support the principled call from Palestinian artists to refuse to exhibit with or sell to Israeli and international arts institutions that are complicit in Israel’s human rights abuses. As long as Israel maintains its apartheid regime, we refuse to artwash its brutal oppression against Palestinians.
    A bright brown and pink background with bold cream and pink repeated text in all caps that says ‘visual arts for Palestine’
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  16. May 18

    Boycott, Sanction, Divest, Deauthor. Organise, Educate, Donate. Free Palestine.

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  17. May 18

    I made these naive little sketches of Gaza superimposed on London and New York back in 2009. The population was estimated at 1.4 million people then; it's more than 2 million now.

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  18. May 6

    Long live the New Aesthetic. Keep the Internet weird. Resist co-option by never, ever stopping. Hail Eris.

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  19. May 6

    Thanks so much to all who have contributed to that. You know who you are. NA shaped my thinking deeply and utterly; it gave me, still gives me, and I think others, a way to wrap our arms around something that was happening, is still happening, that matters and is mattering.

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  20. May 6

    Those ten years are also ten years of my life, a trajectory from books to web to art and round and round and round again, drones, datacentres, self-driving cars and flamingos; unnumbered conferences, weird conversations and C-Beams glittering in the dark.

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  21. May 6

    I don’t have much to add by way of commentary, beyond this essay I wrote two and a half years in: “The New Aesthetic is not superficial [...] If you cannot perceive the politics, the politics are being done to you.”

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