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We have a situation in which the ‘aura’ of the unique object, which Walter Benjamin had described as being eradicated…
The Hackney Cut
The changing ecologies of clean and dirty. As the river Lea bends and turns in through Hackney Marsh, it leaves…
Neue Stadt (of art and labour)
Here labour (of the artist) exists in the knowledge that it is transient, it serves the purpose of the time….
Recovering Community (2)
The erasing of community takes place not only through eviction by the State. It also takes place in political writing…
A politics of arrival
The arrival of the corona virus Covid-19 in Europe was staggered, uneven, belated and sudden. The first reported case of…
Futureshock
Rockit by Herbie Hancock, an unlikely sound track in 1983, arrived as a completely tangential entry into the world of…
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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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