psychochronologies:
Recovering Community (2)
The erasing of community takes place not only through eviction by the State. It also takes place in political writing…
Hackney Marsh 1 2 & 3
… within its history is a chain of role reversals that unravel in this global age and produce new directions…
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…
Frontline street
The street of May ’68 seems invitingly open, virginal, feral compared to the complex means of control and policing today…
The Workerant
In the unfolding drama of work in the digital age, new circumstance demands new language. Gig economy, on-demand work, sharing…
The Hackney Cut
The changing ecologies of clean and dirty. As the river Lea bends and turns in through Hackney Marsh, it leaves…
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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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