with Terry Perk an installation for Gestures of Resistance, Romantso, Athens Arthur   Ducklin   (1917–1965)   operated   on   the   fringes   of   British   politics   in   the   1950s   and   60s   as   self- styled   leader   of   the   right-wing   League   of   Albion.   He   is   best   remembered   for   his   innovative   style   of political    activism.    Ducklin    was    an    avid    believer    in    “Peithonics”,    the    theory    of    mass    manipulation pioneered   by   US   psychologist   S   McKenzie   Strutt.   The   central   tenet   of   Peithonics   was   that   “persuasion has nothing to do with truth”. Strutt   developed   the   Peithotron,   an   electronic   device   claimed   to   influence   the   mood   of   a   subject through   the   generation   of   low-frequency   electromagnetic   radiation   at   levels   matching   those   of   human brain   activity.   By   combining   frequencies   in   complex   interference   patterns,   Strutt’s   machine   could   be tuned to render a state of suggestibility in bystanders. In   1957   Ducklin   acquired   a   Peithotron,   and   deployed   it   at   League   rallies   with   the   intention   of   making easy   converts.   The   effect   relied   upon   a   degree   of   rage   in   the   audience,   which   the   machine   could exacerbate. Ducklin’s   confused   ideology   undermined   his   ambition   to   found   a   mass   movement   and   he   eventually turned   his   attention   to   supporting   the   campaigns   of   others.   He   was   often   to   be   seen   with   his   Peithotron in   the   background   at   political   rallies   around   the   world.   His   death   in   a   remote   town   in   Panama   was   both sudden and unexplained.