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Radical Anthropology

Radical Anthropology goes to the pub after Easter!

Our next session is a new departure: a poetry reading by our Alternative Radical #Poet Laureate, #PaulDave.
A MONDAY special! April 28 from 6 onward over the famed Two Chairmen pub in Dartmouth St, SW1H 9BP. Just come upstairs, FREE to all.

Come for food, drink and healthy discussion on the topics of #Englishness and #ComedyCommunism! RAG's scientific theory is featured strongly in this amazing epic. Funny how our cutting edge science of human origins is often ignored by the Royal Society but taken up by celebrated artists and poets!

Paul Dave is a poet with an unhealthy interest in England. Larkin’s Toilet is an epic autobiography concerned with national origins and change. It explores some of the most influential official voices of English poetry in the context of our current emergencies. As an epic rather than surveying the heroic birth of a nation it is preoccupied with the ongoing failure of a nation to be born, but is in no way entirely convinced in the desirablilty of such a birth. It is therefore a poem that records a struggle in the subjectivity of the poet and in his historical materials. Its structuring ideas are borrowed from radical evolutionary anthropology, political marxism and comedy communism.

Everybody welcome! We will run our ZOOM if you can't get there (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)

Poster for a poetry reading of 'Larkin's Toilet' by Paul Dave on a theme of comedy communism. It takes place on Monday April 28, from 6:30-10 at the Two chairmen pub Dartmouth St, SW1H 9BP. the Moon hovers at the top on a blood red background. A sketch of Radical Anthropology's lunar-phased theory of human origins is seen at the bottom
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S. K. Riley

The people least likely to learn anything new are those who think they already know it all. By contrast, those who are willing to question their own assumptions & adopt new perspectives are in the best position to arrive at new insights. – from Socrates in Plato’s ‘Apology’

#Keats #Poet #Socrates #BetterDeeds

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Keat’s philosophy was centred on suspending judgment about something in order to learn more about it. Here we see the resting-place of poet John Keats in Rome’s Protestant cemetery, along with Joseph Severn and Percy Shelley. The inscription reads: ‘This Grave contains all that was mortal, of a Young English Poet, who on his Death Bed, in the Bitterness of his heart, at the Malicious Power of his enemies, desired these words to be Engraven on his Tomb Stone: Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water.’ However, Keats himself only wanted the phrase, ‘Here lies one whose name was writ in water’ to be on his tombstone. It is thought to be taken from Beaumont and Fletcher’s Philaster (‘all your better deeds/ Shall be in water writ’).
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