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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…
Revisiting Laing
Anti-psychiatry drove at the foundations of both institutions – the family and the asylum. But in the process the asylum…
Domestic footprint
The “do with less” mantra has limited social currency if ecological footprint is disconnected from the complexities of social capital…
Hi-density Food Chains
.. hi-density urban environments provide the perfect site for experimenting with potential up-scalable forms of sustainable food supply because of…
Crossing the Trenches
The image is the means by which we both avoid the Other and yet represent the Other. As the rights…
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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