psychochronologies:
Recovering Community (1)
The political antagonism posed by community — in particular the struggle through it for agency beyond the framework of liberal…
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…
Lichtenberg Diary
In the so-called “peaceful revolution” of the German unification or die Wende, the transfer from system to system, whether of…
Our Purgatory of Consumerism
.. our corona purgatory is different to the mediaeval purgatory. If overconsumption or gluttony was once a failing of individual…
Recovering Community (2)
The erasing of community takes place not only through eviction by the State. It also takes place in political writing…
10000
We have a situation in which the ‘aura’ of the unique object, which Walter Benjamin had described as being eradicated…
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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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