Plattetopia

Familiar as I am with the paradoxes of life in modern industrial housing, that the more humans are packed into…
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Neu Hohenschönhausen Siraj Izhar

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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Jules Ferry Calais 2016 Siraj Izhar

World Social Forum Tunis

.. speaking on social movements in emerging economies, Samir Amin brokered the possibility of a second Internationalism to realise itself…
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Parliaments of Dartmoor

The rugged landscape is itself the result of ecological collapse. Once upon a time Dartmoor was a dense forest. Then…
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Frontline street

The street of May ’68 seems invitingly open, virginal, feral compared to the complex means of control and policing today…
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The frontline Street from 1968 Siraj Izhar

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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Bob Vylan O2. Siraj Izhar

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