psychochronologies:
Parliaments of Dartmoor
The rugged landscape is itself the result of ecological collapse. Once upon a time Dartmoor was a dense forest. Then…
One Piece at a Time
Johnny Cash’s song is about how he makes his own dream Cadillac by smuggling out all the parts from the…
The Hackney Cut
The changing ecologies of clean and dirty. As the river Lea bends and turns in through Hackney Marsh, it leaves…
Our Purgatory of Consumerism
.. our corona purgatory is different to the mediaeval purgatory. If overconsumption or gluttony was once a failing of individual…
corpus nullius
In a triumph of circular logic, the means of exclusion that serves to maintain a liberal Europe have pushed it…
Recovering Community (1)
The political antagonism posed by community — in particular the struggle through it for agency beyond the framework of liberal…
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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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