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Trump tropes
the unrequited quest for a transparency of power also leads perversely to the One, a spectacular enactment of the Leader….
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…
The Republics of the Jungle
.. a process of dismantling the colonial empire without having to choose between French colonialism and national independence. Its project…
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…
Plattetopia
Familiar as I am with the paradoxes of life in modern industrial housing, that the more humans are packed into…
10000
We have a situation in which the ‘aura’ of the unique object, which Walter Benjamin had described as being eradicated…
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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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