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Chris Baldwin

@chris-baldwin.bsky.social
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Performance Director, Author, Curator, Visiting Professor. Artistic Director of CCD Productions. www.chrisbaldwin.eu

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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
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Opinion • An artillery shell signed by Israel's president could have hit a child in Gaza
What statesmanship is there in the signing of a lethal munition, which in the eyes of the world represents Israel's greatest sin in this war – sowing devastation in Gaza and killing innocents?
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social regards Herzog. You always remind us to remember:
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/03/2026
Lebanon's president condemns 'blatant crime', as Israeli strikes kill more journalists.
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Three journalists killed in Israeli strike on marked press car in Lebanon
Lebanon's president condemns 'blatant crime', as Israeli strikes kill more journalists.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Anne Frank stuff, all of this. Link to the full ProPublica piece is here: www.propublica.org/article/life... America, 2026
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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МОНУМЕНТАЛНИТЕ - The Monumentals
Five Plovdiv Artists and Their Legacy in the City
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"War can be informalized, normalised, inserted into heads of as simply part of everyday life... And this is where arts and culture are called to assist." #Substack: chrisplovdiv.substack.com/podcast #Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1HwSj6d....
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/06/2025
“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing. Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle. Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop. (1 of 2)
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FEMINIST @feminists.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention. 🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Join us live now for the second session of Forum Tomizza 's discussion and where the main topic #InPraiseofFolly would lead us www.facebook.com/share/12LJry... #clickbaitcitizen #FORUMTOMIZZA www.forumtomizza.com
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Making it to the other side Will you join us there? #ClickbaitCitizen open.substack.com/pub/chrisplo...
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Making it to the other side
How to imagine is our solemn task.
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Privilege and Mimesis In this first full length episode I examine the way professional politicians have been highly adept at employing the power of performance across a wide spectrum of their own activities. Join me at Substack: chrisplovdiv.substack.com #clickbaitcitizen
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Clickbait Citizen | Chris Baldwin | Substack
A weekly post which explores the evolving relationship between power, propaganda, art and culture written by an award-winning theatre director, curator and author. Click to read Clickbait Citizen, by ...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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Gaza is a ‘killing field’ where people are being starved. How long will the world tolerate this? | Arwa Mahdawi
What is happening is, quite simply, annihilation. Yet our politicians keep funding it and media outlets normalize it
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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
German businesses heard a similar pitch in 1940. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Protests aren’t the only tool in the anti-authoritarian toolkit, but they’re incredibly important. Protests help us see each other; they make it feel safer to refuse to obey the dictator, and make it more possible for us to organize mass non-cooperation. It’s an essential step in the process.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
UK musicians hit with £914M+ loss post-Brexit. Streams, tickets, vinyl - it’s grim. Join @europeanmovement.co.uk to sign the petition: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/brexit_music...
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Total Cost to Musicians Since Brexit - European Movement UK
The cost of Brexit to UK musicians is staggering. Discover the impact in Spotify streams, Wembley tickets, vinyl LPs, and more. Support the campaign and sign the petition!
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Join me at Substack! Chris chrisplovdiv.substack.com/p/the-city-r...
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Culture and Nuclear Fission
When the ancient actor stepped out of the chorus to comment on the action it was the equivalent of cultural nuclear fission. Authority responded, first with regulation and then with violence.
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Narrative Launderers - From Melno Park to Theresienstadt. "Propaganda is aimed not only at communicating a message, but at constructing reality itself". I invite you to join me on Substack: chrisplovdiv.substack.com/p/narrative-...
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Narrative Launderers
From Melno Park to Theresienstadt
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The artist does have an obligation to consider the jeopardy at play for their audience citizens... Prompt: Five Arenas chrisplovdiv.substack.com/p/prompt-fiv...
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Prompt: Five Arenas
Politicians depend on fictions as much as facts to communicate and accumulate power with and from their audiences, us citizens. This is how artists become indispensable.
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I ask questions about the relationship between power, propaganda, art and culture. Be part of a community discussing democracy and culture through a wider lens. chrisplovdiv.substack.com/p/clickbait-...
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Clickbait Citizen
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no ...
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CCD Productions Ltd @ccdproductions.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
'The artist does have an obligation to consider the jeopardy at play for their audience citizens...' @chris-baldwin.bsky.social
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Prompt: Five Arenas
Politicians depend on fictions as much as facts to communicate and accumulate power with and from their audiences, us citizens. This is how artists become indispensable.
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"An unapologetic celebration of diversity as a human need and not as a political option one can reject or replace with some other concept." Follow me on Substack. chrisplovdiv.substack.com/p/if-they-di...
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If they did not exist, we would have to re-invent them.
Festivals are the decentralised and irreplaceable spaces for imagining the unimaginable. Welcome to Trieste.
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"Politicians depend on fictions as much as facts to communicate and accumulate power with and from their audiences, us citizens". chrisplovdiv.substack.com
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Clickbait Citizen | Chris Baldwin | Substack
Talking about the histories, politics and democracies...through a cultural lens. Click to read Clickbait Citizen, by Chris Baldwin, a Substack publication. Launched 8 hours ago.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
American statements in the Oval Office indistinguishable from Russian propaganda and celebrated by Russian propagandists.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Given that the Trump people did nothing to induce Russia to end the war, it’s fair to conclude that the whole idea of pursuing peace was just a pretext to renew relations with Russia.
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Trump's video of Gaza speaks to a US which has become the victim of its own visual language - capable of generating a fictitious, grotesque vision of the future while falls into a dependence on that very vision as a political road-map. Marvel brings you Genocide. www.instagram.com/reel/DGhfpgH...
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President Donald J. Trump on Instagram
392K likes, 40K comments - realdonaldtrump on February 25, 2025
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"The increase to Musk's wealth since Trump was elected president three months ago is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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"Recoup the costs"
The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
We're shocked by Trump and Musk's antics because we judge them against the idea that governments should serve the people. But they have no such intention. Government for them is simply about seizing power and wealth. Let's stop being shocked, and build a global, democratic counter-movement.
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Sober, conservative but still terrifying. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Trump, with US Middle East envoy (and billionaire real real estate investor) Steve Witkoff, bulldoze Gaza to build a golf resort.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Musk is attempting to destroy the federal government from the inside while admitting that he is doing so. Typically excellent summary from Heather Cox Richardson. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-3...
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February 3, 2025
I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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Chris Baldwin @chris-baldwin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
⚠️ Forever chemicals (PFAS) are in our food, water, and our bodies. The science is clear: they cause serious health problems, costing Europe billions annually. The chemical industry profits while ignoring the damage. Demand a European ban on PFAS: Sign our petition. share.greens-efa.eu/s/i3HUQMsH
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⚠️ Take action against PFAS - sign the petition
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Rachel, please listen to Louise: “I wonder what you were thinking, when things could still be changed, when science predicted the consequences of global warming with great certainty, when people who knew what they were talking about rang alarm bells all over the world” #WeTheHopeful wethehopeful.org
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The story of 2050 is being written today
Scientists have a clear vision of what 2050 will look like, shaped by the choices we make today.
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CCD Productions Ltd @ccdproductions.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Are we helping understand what is at stake? Artists have a role here as we build the transformative stories. As humans we all tend to develop world views consistent with the values held by others within the groups with which we self-identify.' @chris-baldwin.bsky.social
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If The Sea Breathes, We Breathe | ASEF culture360
As part of culture360 recent Call for articles, Chris Baldwin explores how the opening art event of Eleusis 2023 (European Captial of Culture) will mark as a defining point fo...
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CCD Productions Ltd @ccdproductions.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Culture, as we often forget, is a means by which to reflect what it means to be social. Our role, therefore, is to be constantly reminding – and guarding – that it remains inextricably linked with generating empathy and identity. @chris-baldwin.bsky.social chrisbaldwin.eu/writings/p/6...
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Teatro de Creación and Wroclaw, European Capital of Culture, 2016 | Chris Baldwin
The art of performance is much more than the simple creation of a word in a given space and time. It is history, events, relationships between people, all concentrated in the unique here and now.
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CCD Productions Ltd @ccdproductions.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
You and I, almost every one of us, give away the creative artefacts we generate during our lives to anonymous digital corporations in return for a dopamine hit lasting a microsecond. Yet alternatives exist' @chris-baldwin.bsky.social chrisbaldwin.eu/articles/p/1...
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Democracy, Culture and Ownership – who tells the story? | Chris Baldwin
An article on democracy, culture and ownership by Chris Baldwin for the Cultural Association LOS GLAYUS - Oviedo, Spain
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Heil Tesla
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
WOW! The number of @bsky.app users just hit 29 MILLION! 👏 IT’S HAPPENING. LET’S DO THIS!
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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
WATCH my full interview with @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk about how my new book ALT REICH reveals a deliberate strategy over the last century to Nazify the centre-right. If you were shocked to see Elon Musk do a Nazi salute, here's why youtu.be/kWuzeHKXyCI?...
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Elon Musk salute was 'no accident', says expert in the alt-right | LBC
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Such powerful words. Biden quotes Eisenhower’s ‘military industrial complex’ & then christens what’s happening as the ‘tech industrial complex’. ‘The free press is crumbling…truth is being smothered by lies’
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now @emilybell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now | Emily Bell
There is a narrow window. Public media and fair reporting must be supported: the rules must be upheld, says writer and academic Emily Bell
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Excellent piece. Well worth reading
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
In the Journal of Genocide Research Forum on Israel-Palestine: Atrocity Crimes and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Shira Klein has published “The Growing Rift between Holocaust Scholars over Israel/Palestine” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Growing Rift between Holocaust Scholars over Israel/Palestine
Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Attorney general Richard Hermer KC declared at his swearing-in ceremony his hope that secondary legislation would not be abused. What does he have to say now - just five months in, with the government condoning that abuse by appealing Liberty’s High court win against the former Tory government?
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