psychochronologies:
Domestic footprint
The “do with less” mantra has limited social currency if ecological footprint is disconnected from the complexities of social capital…
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…
Lifeisland
.. the bearer of memory in a different conception of landscape. At the heart of it is space to do…
Trump tropes
the unrequited quest for a transparency of power also leads perversely to the One, a spectacular enactment of the Leader….
Soft Power and Hotspot Life
A defining aspect of hotspot life is that it always seems to ask “so how long will this last?” But…
Our Purgatory of Consumerism
.. our corona purgatory is different to the mediaeval purgatory. If overconsumption or gluttony was once a failing of individual…
latest:
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…
categories:
about:
amplife is a blog space for the intersection of text and activism. The blog parallels xyzlondon an autonomous practice in the making of its psychogeography.
