psychochronologies:
Neue Stadt (of art and labour)
Here labour (of the artist) exists in the knowledge that it is transient, it serves the purpose of the time….
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…
Domestic footprint
The “do with less” mantra has limited social currency if ecological footprint is disconnected from the complexities of social capital…
Trump tropes
the unrequited quest for a transparency of power also leads perversely to the One, a spectacular enactment of the Leader….
The Claim to Violence
The purpose of this writing is to make a clearing in the time of this pandemic, a space for a…
The Future will be handmade?
We understand that the 20th and the 19th centuries are unrepeatable in ecological terms but in what way? How the…
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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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