Hackney Marsh 1 2 & 3

… within its history is a chain of role reversals that unravel in this global age and produce new directions…
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Hackney Marsh

Shut it Down #YarlsWood

On a wet windy November day in Bedfordshire, outside the notorious Yarl’s Wood detention centre, Judith an ex-detainee is on…
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Recovering Community (1)

The political antagonism posed by community — in particular the struggle through it for agency beyond the framework of liberal…
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Calais Jungle 2017

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We have a situation in which the ‘aura’ of the unique object, which Walter Benjamin had described as being eradicated…
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Prinzessinnengarten

As our ecosystems are now entirely dominated by capital and if capital is value in motion, then it’s appropriate that…
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Altieri on agroecology

It’s like a stool that has three legs. One that is socially just, one that is economically viable, and one…
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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…
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11 April 2026 Archive

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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