psychochronologies:
Soft Power and Hotspot Life
A defining aspect of hotspot life is that it always seems to ask “so how long will this last?” But…
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 Hackney Cut
The changing ecologies of clean and dirty. As the river Lea bends and turns in through Hackney Marsh, it leaves…
Lifeisland
.. the bearer of memory in a different conception of landscape. At the heart of it is space to do…
Lichtenberg Diary
In the so-called “peaceful revolution” of the German unification or die Wende, the transfer from system to system, whether of…
Domestic footprint
The “do with less” mantra has limited social currency if ecological footprint is disconnected from the complexities of social capital…
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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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