psychochronologies:
Frontline street
The street of May ’68 seems invitingly open, virginal, feral compared to the complex means of control and policing today…
The Other Scene of Emergency
To understand the month of June 2020 enfolded between Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter requires a reading of its political…
10000
We have a situation in which the ‘aura’ of the unique object, which Walter Benjamin had described as being eradicated…
Rambler in the Berlin Unité
When the social constituency changes so does the range of communal activities and associations. This is not an Unité that…
Netroots UK
Though valorisation of new media is not new, how can we really assess how the two things, electoral politics and…
The Workerant
In the unfolding drama of work in the digital age, new circumstance demands new language. Gig economy, on-demand work, sharing…
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Managing the Boomerang of Genocide
If we recall the scramble for territory by European states at the end of the nineteenth century, the scramble now in the twenty-first is for legislation to ban language of…
Rap vs. The State
Through rappers such as Bob Vylan and Kneecap, an insurgent rap tells us why the scale of killing in Gaza is not only bound with our own repression but also…
Mandate 2.0
The word Mandate here refers to the arrangement by which the fate of the people in Palestine was handed to European colonial powers a century ago. A rereading of the…
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