Communists are just Part-Time Workers

The neglected Measures Taken will be given a rare reactivation, as repository for a few recent academic papers and other such things: first, my paper for the Salford Fall conference Messing up the Paintwork. Obviously even for such a seasoned dabbler, this isn't my usual area, so is pretty shaky, even after some extensive rewriting, and is basically not much more than footnotes to K-Punk's essential essay-series on MES. Although it cleaves to the Dragnet-to-Perverted-by-Language-are-the-masterpieces line (which I only mostly adhere to - the John Leckie stuff is a bit too much like normal music, but I hold Levitate, The Unutterable, and even the new one in high esteem, though they become a very different beast by this point, less about brilliant texts and more about cadences and aphorisms) the title is from 1992's 'The Birmingham School of Business School', a fantastic song which is alas entirely irrelevant to the paper.