Hackney Marsh Crow

I zone in on a crow. Each time it’s the same, sideways glances from the crow, turns of the head,…
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Hackney Marsh crow

terra nullius Jules Ferry

a postcolonial terra nullius re-emerges out of history as a necessary political conception. It manifests in the ever-multiplying colonies…
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The Jungle

… the undocumented created an architecture of a shadow society whose political form is unaddressed. It is described by words…
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Calais drawing

Recovering Community (2)

The erasing of community takes place not only through eviction by the State. It also takes place in political writing…
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Welcome to the Jungle

corpus nullius

In a triumph of circular logic, the means of exclusion that serves to maintain a liberal Europe have pushed it…
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Moria Camp Siraj Izhar

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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…
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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…
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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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