psychochronologies:
Revisiting Laing
Anti-psychiatry drove at the foundations of both institutions – the family and the asylum. But in the process the asylum…
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…
Recovering Community (2)
The erasing of community takes place not only through eviction by the State. It also takes place in political writing…
Our Purgatory of Consumerism
.. our corona purgatory is different to the mediaeval purgatory. If overconsumption or gluttony was once a failing of individual…
Free School
.. the putting back into social use of empty property should be rewarded. That is to follow market logic as…
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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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…
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…
Mandate 2.0
The word Mandate here refers to the arrangement by which the fate of the people in Palestine was handed to European colonial powers a century ago. A rereading of the…
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