Teeny's Zineys!

Below is a list of the current zines that are available. Just click on the link to take you to further information:

On Moments & Meaning...

This is a limited edition poetry booklet containing the work of the Yorkshire New Wave poet, Clifford Nicholas. It will be of interest to anyone who likes modernist poetry, especially that of the late 20th century. The poems cover political moments during that period, but also existential ideas that inspired the poet during his life. More info...

The Problem With...THE FETISH!

This zine examines the the objectified representations of love/romance as a stand in for the absent other, and capital as fetish objects. Using key theories from Cultural Studies, the author compares and contrasts the two. The zine is in full colour and includes images and some original tables/images. More info...

On Waking & Walking...

This experimental poetry and prose booklet is both a play on words and an expression of the author’s interests as both a psychogeographer and an academic who studies psychoanalytic theory. The texts included here range from poems that reflect dream-like states, to rhythmic verses that imitate the act of walking itself. More info...

The Problem With....KITSCH!

This zine is about the author's cognitive dissonance in regard to kitsch. From the perspective of both a scholar and a fan, the author explores this particular aesthetic. More info...

What I Love About....WORDS!

A zine about...yes, words! Not language or speech or books, although about all those things, too. Just out! More info...

What I Love About...MAPS!

A research-based guide on what the author finds interesting about cartography. Includes map analysis and discussion on vernacular mapping. More info...

How to Write a...MANIFESTO!

A research-based guide on how to write a manifesto, including historical and contemporary examples. More info...

What I Love About....CATS!

A zine about the complete and utter loveliness of cats. More info...

Hunstanton: Wish You Were Here!

A psychogeography of this North Norfolk seaside town. This is a limited edition run of 25 zines. More info...

Twenty Six Psychogeography Stations

TWENTYSIX PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY STATIONS by Darrant Hinisco is still available, but there are only 20 left of this limited edition. It is based on the famous artist’s book by Ed Ruscha TWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS (a truly psychogeographical artist’s book), and faithfully follows its format and style. This is what Darrant Hinisco and Tina Richardson say in the preface:

This artist’s book is a collaboration with my publisher, Tina Richardson. Between us we have curated this set of photographs from my own collection, mostly from my travels in the United Kingdom and United States. The photos included herein are a response to the psychogeographical phenomena known as ‘perambulatory hinges’ or, how I have termed them here, psychogeography stations. I would like to thank Tina for all her help during the making of this book and for producing it as an Urban Gerbil Publication. 

Darrant Hinisco 2015

In August 2015 Darrant approached me to produce his first artist’s book after coming across a copy of STEPZ: A Psychogeography and Urban Aesthetics Zine in a second-hand bookshop in Lisbon. Darrant had already begun working on a collection of his urban landscape images and on discovering STEPZ decided he would like his images to be published under the rubric of psychogeography. I would like to thank Darrant for trusting me with his first publication and I feel honoured to have worked with him on putting this collection together.

Tina Richardson 2015

TWENTYSIX PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY STATIONS is an Urban Gerbil Publication and you can read Darrant’s pre-launch announcement here. Photographs are reproduced in black and white and the cover is red and white as shown. The 50 page, A5 size book costs £4.50 plus postage at UK standard letter rate.

Related links:
STEPZ: A Psychogeography and Urban Aesthetics Zine 

'Let Me Tell You a Story' by Fenella Brandenburg

Let Me Tell You a Story: Presupposed actualization and the discourse of architectural development plans.

By Fenella Brandenburg.

Limited edition: only 10 available.

This essay is by the infamous academic and agent provacateur Fenella Brandenburg. Brandenburg is well-known for her appearance as keynote speaker at the Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography (4WCOP) in September 2017 at Huddersfield University, alongside David Bollinger.

• Published by Urban Gerbil
• Size: A5
• Pages: 33
• Black and white images: 2
• Colour images: 3
• White cover with blue text

Abstract of essay:
This essay discusses how architectural development plans form a narrative that tells a story of the future space being proposed. This story, embedded in a discourse that is circulated by those in authority in regard to the project’s manifestation, has two main effects. Firstly, it changes the subjectivity of those involved in the decision-making process and, secondly, the ideological structure surrounding the development makes the anticipated project, in the minds of those involved, exist in advance. These effects are known as presupposed actualization. By providing an example of a development project carried out in the UK in the 1960s - and by using theories around narratology, ideology, discourse and representation – the author demonstrates how this comes about through the telling of a story and because of the material actions undertaken by those invested in the project.

You can buy your copy for £4.00 + UK postage.

Tina on Trump: Truth, Reality, Language & Myth

Below are the posts I have written on Donald Trump, all in one place, for easy access. I started writing these in 2016. They are academic critiques based on some of my own observations and underpinned with, mostly, poststructural philosophical cultural theory. I hope you find them interesting:

Nov 2016: #PresidentTrump - A Simulated Hold-Up

May 2016: Myth Today: Truth and Trumph in a Trump World

May 2020: #Post-Truth - Trump, Truth and Treachery in the Post Post-Modern