Posted on: September 26, 2012 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames Fights for Peace

The Housmans Manoeuvres “I’m not a philosopher, I’m a strategist.” – Guy Debord Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross London N1 9DX Collective Playing of Guy Debord’s The Game of War Sunday 28th October, 2.00pm Free Entry Collective Playing of 1791 Haitian Revolution version of Richard Borg’s Command & Colors Napoleonics Wednesday 31st October, 5.00pm-7.00pm. Free entry. Book Launch Wednesday 31st October, 7.00pm Entry: £3, redeemable against any purchase…

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Posted on: September 16, 2012 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames in Mourning

Elena Mikhailovna Duffield (née Vorontsova) 1975-2012 “While you live, shine Don’t suffer anything at all; Life exists only a short while And time demands its toll.” – Seikilos Class Wargames salutes the memory of our much missed fallen comrade. Ilze Black made this video tribute to Elena.

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Posted on: July 1, 2012 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames in the Wild Woods

Games People Play at the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World “Its principle of reciprocal rights, its diplomatic forms, its mutual obligations in honouring treaties and, in the event of war, officially abrogating peace, all bear a formal resemblance to rules of a game. We might in a purely formal sense, call all of human society a game.” – Johan Huizinga Friday 6th April – Sunday 30th September…

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Posted on: June 9, 2012 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames Doin’ It In the Park

Invisible Forces at Furtherfield Gallery “The vital question before us is how to cut the chains of misery that still bind the hands of Toussaint’s descendants and those worldwide trapped in poverty. Toussaint’s fierce opposition to slavery, his leadership skills, his freedom-inspired writings and the constitution he drafted bequeath to us all a strategy for opposing injustice. This example tells us that discipline is part of the equation.” – Jean-Bertrand…

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Posted on: May 22, 2012 Posted by: StefaN Comments: 0

Class Wargames celebrates POSTSPECTACLISM at LIVE ART festival, Kampnagel

The Battle for Hamburg “Damn ye, you are a sneaking puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by laws which rich men have made for their own security.” Samuel Bellamy The festival LIVE ART will be presenting a manifold of artistic positions on the subject of “postspectaclism’, as it enters its 4th round. It will open to question some of the cornerstones of the ‘festival’…

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Posted on: November 20, 2011 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames on the Eastern Front

Takako Saito’s Liquor Chess meets Guy Debord’s The Game of War “The main product which economic development has transformed from luxurious scarcity to daily consumption is history, but only in the form of the history of the abstract movement of things that dominates all qualitative use of life. The revolutionary project is the realisation of a generalised historical life: the classless society.” – Guy Debord Friday 2nd December 18.30-21.00 RayLab,…

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