Futureshock
Rockit by Herbie Hancock, an unlikely sound track in 1983, arrived as a completely tangential entry into the world of pop…. a calculated use of pop to reconfigure the racialised body in the music industry’s designations.
Plattetopia
Familiar as I am with the paradoxes of life in modern industrial housing, that the more humans are packed into concrete compartments the more atomised they become, such spaces are conceived through ideas about modern utopias and socialist dreams.
tent Xx
Perhaps the best measure of the significance of Democracy Village as a tent city is to contrast it with what followed in the space of an year. The Arab Spring and the huge encampment at Midan Tahrir Cairo in February 2011 and in the coming spring the Occupy tent cities ..
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 space as a double emergency. For what intervened in the time of a national lockdown could only be described as another ..
The Claim to Violence
The purpose of this writing is to make a clearing in the time of this pandemic, a space for a clarity of confrontation between the claims to violence in it. The claim between natural violence and state violence – or between the divine violence of nature and mythic violence of law…
Prisoners of the State
We have all become prisoners of the State. Wherever we are across the whole planet. It’s a time like no other time in human history or natural history. Is it a force of Nature as virus Covid-19 that has brought this about; or is it something to do with the nature of our State?