# post industrial north key location in endland and dislocated home to upin 'university of the post-industrial north' here henry swanson fellow researcher of strange imaginary play-state 'big science' is stuck on ir terrible 'sociomedia' course ah the north - known for its brain stunning miserable overcast charity shop high street weather large portions of cancer and chips and forever growing senses of damp social dis-ease a non place where weary citizens silently contemplate ir miserable anonymous nowhere lives who stare listlessly over unending rows of lightly frozen slate rooftops imagining existentially refreshing escapes to the mystic east in a stolen stealth biosynth data-ninja microlight gliding in electric silence to unexplored near-future retro 80's gilliamesque lands forever new // republic of bob