I swung by Quix on Cowley Road and noticed that they seemed to have a magazine crisis. The shelves were almost bare aside from High Times and other magazines for weed enthusiasts, a bunch of tattoo and fetish periodicals, and a note saying that the magazines were half price, and that new stock would come in in 2 weeks.

Oh, and a few lonely-looking copies of Undercurrent, issue 47, a magazine apparently produced using a good-old fashioned photocopier as opposed to some more advanced printing service. Undercurrent proudly proclaims itself to contain "Original Articles in Philosophy of Natural Sciences". It is a dense read, since the sole author (there is no evidence of any contributors to the magazine aside from Shari S. Temochin, its editor) either hasn't quite got the hang of English grammar or writes in the disturbing not-English that the likes of Gene Ray or Francis E. Dec use. For what it's worth, all quotations from the magazine here will retain Temochin's idiosyncratic spelling, punctuation and grammar.

He seems to have trouble with numbers, too; an advertisement for one of Temochin's other projects, the Red and Green Alliance Party, states that he "obtained highest percentage of votes in 2006 council elections at Soho and Victoria ward of Sandwell constituency in Birmingham." The actual results would appear to disagree with him. Yes, friends, he was the Green Party candidate; between this guy and David Icke they seem to have a poor track record with people losing their minds.

But enough of the editor/sole contributor: what's the point of Undercurrent? Again, the RAGAP advert gives as good a definition as any.

RAGAP theoretical journal is UNDERCURRENT. Since past ten years its been serialising a super science an original study of multi dimensional effects of Division of Labour, in Hegelian Logic reaching deep into evolutionary Biology, History and all other main sciences- Making largest ever science, it will replaces old critical theory of society Marxism socialism or become vital active part of it."

In case you were interested, RAGAP's policies include:

• Solving the energy crisis through expanding existing hydroelectric, wind, and geothermal sources, as well as beaming Solar energy directly from deep space or the surface of the Moon.


• Desegregating society by eliminating employment and the welfare state, communalising all businesses.


• Free public transport.


• More places for kids to hang out.


• "All work well be done in teams to maximise choices and abolish work and education created inequalities, segregation and discriminations."

As for Undercurrent itself, summarising it is truly a daunting task. No subject under the Sun is irrelevant for the overarching task of developing a super science based on multidimensional division of Labour, after all! In this issue I found:

• An article on the failures of the EU's Global Climate Rescue Plan (it relies too much on capitalism).


• A rant against the way school league tables are drawn up. ("Undercurrent say to Mr Knight on behalf British children's - let us learn! let us be educated! let us go some where! Please don't turn us into illiterates!")


• An uncharacteristically insightful and coherent piece on the plight of low-caste individuals in India.


• An introduction to the ancient tradition of wassailing.


• An attempt to construct a new phonetic spelling scheme for the English language.

But these are sideshows compared with the centrepiece of the issue, part nine of the epic series Some Aspects In the Functional Dimension of Division of Labour. Here and in the other scientific articles in the magazine the true genius of the magazine is presented. The ability to fill page after page with words and say nothing is something which should be treasured. However, at 1.50 for a 28 page issue I feel that Undercurrent is not quite worth the money. Buy it and be briefly amused, but don't subscribe.