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The 0 – 1979 project has been essentially the rationale behind my project especially the Abridged so it seemed very appropriate to have an 1979 issue and blur the lines (further) between influence and final … Read More

Brautigan noted that whilst ‘innocent’ in the 1940s, in 1979 a boy with a gun would mean a pile of bodies and the national guard called out, now pretty much a weekly occurrence in the … Read More

Internet Warriors is a very appropriate documentary in light of the Abridged Babel Submission Call. There is a sense of sadness and desperation about it. At the risk of sounding like one of those internet … Read More

It’s International Women’s Day. It’s sad that one is required. But the world is increasingly rejecting reason and embracing something very reactionary. It’s more than just the patriarchy that has lasted centuries. Though there is … Read More

We’re sometimes rather surprisingly accused of lacking a certain sense of humour or a sense of humour at all. In fact we’ve often been accused of being miserable b*****ds, Now admittedly the Abridged does  have … Read More

In the midst of an essay based upon an Anthrax outbreak from Compound 19, a military chemical factory in the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk, now known as Ekaterinburg in 1979. Officially the explanation was that … Read More

Interestingly enough as part of the Abridged 0 – 2: Damaged Collateral project (which also consisted of a magazine and exhibition) we produced a stage performance of Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds. Appropriately at … Read More

It’s funny reading past Abridged editorials and realising they were essentially about how human frailties and desires/ambitions will ultimately undermine any political/religious philosophy. Paradise could appear tomorrow and within 20 minutes the rot would start … Read More