psychochronologies:
Plattetopia
Familiar as I am with the paradoxes of life in modern industrial housing, that the more humans are packed into…
Prisoners of the State
We have all become prisoners of the State. Wherever we are across the whole planet. It’s a time like no…
The Hackney Cut
The changing ecologies of clean and dirty. As the river Lea bends and turns in through Hackney Marsh, it leaves…
Recovering Community (1)
The political antagonism posed by community — in particular the struggle through it for agency beyond the framework of liberal…
The Claim to Violence
The purpose of this writing is to make a clearing in the time of this pandemic, a space for a…
Futureshock
Rockit by Herbie Hancock, an unlikely sound track in 1983, arrived as a completely tangential entry into the world of…
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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 colonial resistance. That is how the boomerang turns the stage…
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 coincides with a rising fascism at home. Rap entwines these.
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