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19th-21st of September 2003 the U.G.C, Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Scotland Spirit Aid / Variant collaboration Guidelines / Application PDF: http://www.variant.org.uk/Doc1/Doc1_apply.pdf Full info: http://www.variant.org.uk/Doc1/Doc1.html e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------- VARIANT, Issue 17, Spring 2003 http://www.variant.org.uk ...the free, independent, arts magazine. In-depth coverage in the context of broader social, political & cultural issues. [click on the links below to go to a text version (html) or pdf of the full article] Variant 17 Spring 2003 Complete text http://www.variant.org.uk/17texts/issue17.html Complete pdf http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue17/Variant17.pdf Stop the War: Stop the Killing Edward Said The internationally renowned Palestinian intellectual expresses his views on the invasion of Iraq and the situation in Palestine, and responds to questions from sites across the UK. Organised by Edinburgh's Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Globalise Resistance. text http://www.variant.org.uk/17texts/17edwardsaid.html pdf http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue17/17esaid.pdf Has the Gulf War taken place yet? Daniel Jewesbury Following September 11th 2001, when Ground Zero instituted an American Year Zero, Jewesbury attempts to trace the background to current crises in conceptions of 'democracy' and 'society'. text http://www.variant.org.uk/17texts/17danielj.html pdf http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue17/17danielj.pdf Terminals and Frontiers: Art Practice, Campaigning and Progressive Change Lalchand Azad talks to video and digital artist Kooj Chuhan from the group Virtual Migrants, about theory, practice and in particular their set of works collectively titled 'Terminal Frontiers' which bears the strap-line 'deportation, terror and murder by paper.' text http://www.variant.org.uk/17texts/17kooj.html pdf http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue17/17kooj.pdf Climate Change: Prognosis And Courses Of Action Phil England A timely, indepth report on world climate change in the context of the war for oil in Iraq. Illustrations by Paul Bommer. text http://www.variant.org.uk/17texts/17philengland.html pdf http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue17/17pengland.pdf Lunch with the Chairman: Why was Richard Perle meeting with Adnan Khashoggi? Seymour m. Hersh In the 1970s, the Saudi-born businessman Khashoggi brokered billions of dollars in arms and aircraft sales for the Saudi royal family. During the Regan Administration, Khashoggi was a middleman in the Iran-Contra scandal. Perle, until recently, chairman of the US Defense Policy Board is one of the most outspoken and influential American advocates of war with Iraq. So just why were these two 'having lunch' in Marseilles and what has it to do with the venture capital company Trireme? Art work by Pavel B�chler. text http://www.variant.org.uk/17texts/17seymorehersh.html pdf http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue17/17shersh.pdf Invasion of the Kiddy-Fiddlers Mick Wilson A well researched study into 'media facilitated fear responses' to perceived societal threats from paedophiles. text http://www.variant.org.uk/17texts/17mickwilson pdf http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue17/17mwilson.pdf Solway's Silver Bullet Mike Small The politics of Depleted Uranium tipped shells: the contamination resulting in abhorrent 'congenital abnormalities' in Iraq; the successful fight against US Navy test firing in Vieques, Puerto Rico; and their current test-firing in Scotland and threat to public health. text http://www.variant.org.uk/17texts/17mikesmall.html pdf http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue17/17msmall.pdf Istanbul September/October 2002: Death in Turkish prisons David Green A moving, personal account of a journey to understand why thousands of political prisoners were prepared to starve themselves to death in Turkish prisons in protest to forced solitary confinement in F-Type cells. text http://www.variant.org.uk/17texts/17green.html pdf http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue17/17green.pdf Internationalism revisited or In praise of Internationalism Benita Parry "Although proceeding from very particular theoretical premises, the Hardt/Negri thesis on the epochal shift from imperialism to the decentred and deterritorialized terrain of 'Empire' impinges on contemporary debates about globalization." text http://www.variant.org.uk/17texts/17benitaparry.html pdf http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue17/17bparry.pdf Br(other) Rabbit's Tale Tom Jennings 8 Mile, Curtis Hanson's film about an aspiring hip hop performer, stars controversial rapper Eminem. Hip hop, if not ignored altogether in serious debate, is generally condemned and dismissed as one of the most scandalous, degraded and degrading forms of contemporary popular culture. What then does it mean for the main protagonist not only to be white, but also to choose the alias of B. Rabbit? text http://www.variant.org.uk/17texts/17tom_jennings.html pdf http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue17/17tjennings.pdf Letters Response from Sarah Pierce, artist and former Artistic Director of Arthouse, Dublin, and Variant's reply. Concludes with commentary on Laganside's 'Cathedral Quarter' development in Belfast and appalling treatment of Catalyst Arts. Includes documentation of an art project by Ral Veroni text http://www.variant.org.uk/17texts/17letters pdf http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue17/17letters.pdf Derry on its Hobby Horse Colin Darke Coverage of the day-long protest against the closure of Derry's Orchard Gallery and Derry City Council's abysmal behaviour. text http://www.variant.org.uk/17texts/17colindarke.html pdf http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue17/17cdarke.pdf Corporate Sponsorship of Art, BBC Radio Scotland, 6/6/03 text http://www.variant.org.uk/17texts/17sponsorship.html Cover by Colin Darke pdf http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue17/cover17.pdf ----------------------------- � ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITY Variant issue 18 will cover the period Sept-Dec 2003 contact Paula Larkin on +44(0)141 3339522 to advertise. 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