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…
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Yarls Wood Detention Centre Siraj Izhar

Revisiting Laing

Anti-psychiatry drove at the foundations of both institutions – the family and the asylum. But in the process the asylum…
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Laing asylum

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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Domestic footprint

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…
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Maison Radieuse

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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Cardboard Envelope worker

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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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