Revisiting Laing

Anti-psychiatry drove at the foundations of both institutions – the family and the asylum. But in the process the asylum…
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Laing asylum

Prinzessinnengarten

As our ecosystems are now entirely dominated by capital and if capital is value in motion, then it’s appropriate that…
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Prinzessinnengarten Siraj Izhar

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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river Lea Siraj Izhar

Trump tropes

the unrequited quest for a transparency of power also leads perversely to the One, a spectacular enactment of the Leader….
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Trump in London. Siraj Izhar

Netroots UK

Though valorisation of new media is not new, how can we really assess how the two things, electoral politics and…
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Netrootsuk

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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…
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11 April 2026 Archive

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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Bob Vylan O2. Siraj Izhar

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