psychochronologies:
The Other Scene of Emergency
To understand the month of June 2020 enfolded between Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter requires a reading of its political…
Recovering Community (1)
The political antagonism posed by community — in particular the struggle through it for agency beyond the framework of liberal…
Hackney Marsh 1 2 & 3
… within its history is a chain of role reversals that unravel in this global age and produce new directions…
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…
Futureshock
Rockit by Herbie Hancock, an unlikely sound track in 1983, arrived as a completely tangential entry into the world of…
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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