psychochronologies:
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…
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…
Plattetopia
Familiar as I am with the paradoxes of life in modern industrial housing, that the more humans are packed into…
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…
The Hackney Cut
The changing ecologies of clean and dirty. As the river Lea bends and turns in through Hackney Marsh, it leaves…
Hackney Marsh Crow
I zone in on a crow. Each time it’s the same, sideways glances from the crow, turns of the head,…
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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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