psychochronologies:
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We have a situation in which the ‘aura’ of the unique object, which Walter Benjamin had described as being eradicated…
Domestic footprint
The “do with less” mantra has limited social currency if ecological footprint is disconnected from the complexities of social capital…
A politics of arrival
The arrival of the corona virus Covid-19 in Europe was staggered, uneven, belated and sudden. The first reported case of…
The Republics of the Jungle
.. a process of dismantling the colonial empire without having to choose between French colonialism and national independence. Its project…
Plattetopia
Familiar as I am with the paradoxes of life in modern industrial housing, that the more humans are packed into…
terra nullius Jules Ferry
a postcolonial terra nullius re-emerges out of history as a necessary political conception. It manifests in the ever-multiplying colonies…
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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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