psychochronologies:
Westfield Gardens
.. if you look out across the grand open landscape, you could really be anywhere. Anything local is just an…
Frontline street
The street of May ’68 seems invitingly open, virginal, feral compared to the complex means of control and policing today…
The Jungle
… the undocumented created an architecture of a shadow society whose political form is unaddressed. It is described by words…
Futureshock
Rockit by Herbie Hancock, an unlikely sound track in 1983, arrived as a completely tangential entry into the world of…
The Republics of the Jungle
.. a process of dismantling the colonial empire without having to choose between French colonialism and national independence. Its project…
Domestic footprint
The “do with less” mantra has limited social currency if ecological footprint is disconnected from the complexities of social capital…
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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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