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― gareth, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So who the hell is he? Then I'll have an opinion based on all your biases. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there's a really poshg boadding girls school in brisbane called stuartholme - any relation?

― Geoff, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Probably the tosser from the Auteurs, Luke Haines. ;-)

― nathalie, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Very entertaining. There was a thread about him before but no-one replied to it (apart from me).

― David Inglesfield, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

i have absolutely no idea why i started this thread back then, as i have no idea who he is!

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

is it something to do with that psychogeography business?

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I think he's mentioned in Lights Out For The Territory.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 00:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I think he's mentioned in Lights Out For The Territory

There's a whole chapter about him in that. Gareth, how could you forget that? :)

― David (David), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yes! i'm having a look at that now. the thing with sinclair is, i never remember any of it! perhaps lights out for the territory is due a re-read. i shall check out this stewart home

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 00:13 (twenty-three years ago)

hahah what psychogeography business might you be referring to gareth? funny you should mention, i believe the london review journalist namechecks on that other thread -- this is getting confusing! --is it a british thing, like skool disco?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 00:14 (twenty-three years ago)

stewart's home is k-annoying! so what does sinclair have to say about stewart...?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 00:18 (twenty-three years ago)

the thing with sinclair is, i never remember any of it!

I suffer from the same problem.

― David (David), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

but it doesnt matter! you can just make it up

"...and they all lez up, brit uptightness jettisoned by cheap euros and mitsus shipped in by saveloy simulacra geezers with albanian runners, tracing the isosoles routes, leytonstone, holloway road, shadwell, peoples war stencils hidden by turkish activists posters, lost rivers look for light, thames valleys nsake ups, slough, reading, escape to the west, new towns holding old visions, thomas krone, back from the dead as boxing promotor, cazenove road reprise, rerouted, out of check, refurbished boozers, galway itinerents evicted, distraction of imagined gamelan..."

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 00:35 (twenty-three years ago)

repose, graveneys other edict, never let them see, forged manuscripts take place of a real that was only ever imagined, realisation an irrelevancy, trips it oxford a distraction, whitechapel road stumblings, forsake the unitarian church, decrepit o'halloran shunted aside by brisk saveloy serbians in mercedes, boozers as massage parlours, dontesk warnings, graveney knew all this, only refuge, the abbey...

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 00:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it might be time to put my perl skills to some use...

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 00:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes psychogeography = skool disco, more or less.

Psychogeography: the missing link between Situationism, Punk and Town Planning

(I like how ILe is becoming this vast encyclopaedia of mentalism).

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

twenty-one years pass...

My new book Fascist Yoga out in May 2025 with Pluto. pic.twitter.com/2gBu8HyAdh
— Stewart Home (@stewarthome1) October 2, 2024

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 3 October 2024 10:45 (one year ago)

His research into his mother's life is really interesting - see for example Hippie Momma.

But frustratingly he used the information he accumulated to write a very indifferent novel - Tainted Love - when the story would be much better served with a non-fiction account.

I met him once at an art event a few years - and he was good and entertaining company.

― Bob Six, Thursday, 3 October 2024 10:56 (one year ago)

Fascinating. Wouldn't surprise me if his mum got into yoga and she makes it into the book.

I will probably qualify as a yoga teacher myself next year so might pick that up. Though I know the arguments well I hope he talks about his hippie mum lol

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 3 October 2024 14:54 (one year ago)

ten months pass...

The book is out and has been widely and positively reviewed (Telegraph, Times etc) He is promoting it at various bookshop events and I caught the one at the Peace News book store in the Caledonian Road.

He was reminiscing about the legendary 1970s London bookstore Dark they were and golden eyed - he'd probably be a good ILB poster!

― Bob Six, Sunday, 10 August 2025 12:05 (eight months ago)

Stewart has linked this review from a commie Iranian blog.

https://www.peoplesclowns.com/post/a-brief-iran-centred-review-of-fascist-yoga-written-by-stewart-home-published-by-pluto-press-20

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 11 August 2025 14:32 (eight months ago)

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