psychochronologies:
Revisiting Laing
Anti-psychiatry drove at the foundations of both institutions – the family and the asylum. But in the process the asylum…
Crossing the Trenches
The image is the means by which we both avoid the Other and yet represent the Other. As the rights…
The Colonial Breach and the Colonial Bind
.. the death in this genocide in Gaza, as it extends through the virtual space of social media networks, returns…
Hackney Marsh 1 2 & 3
… within its history is a chain of role reversals that unravel in this global age and produce new directions…
Soft Power and Hotspot Life
A defining aspect of hotspot life is that it always seems to ask “so how long will this last?” But…
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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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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