psychochronologies:
The Other Scene of Emergency
To understand the month of June 2020 enfolded between Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter requires a reading of its political…
Lifeisland
.. the bearer of memory in a different conception of landscape. At the heart of it is space to do…
The Jungle
… the undocumented created an architecture of a shadow society whose political form is unaddressed. It is described by words…
The Workerant
In the unfolding drama of work in the digital age, new circumstance demands new language. Gig economy, on-demand work, sharing…
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….
Hackney Marsh 1 2 & 3
… within its history is a chain of role reversals that unravel in this global age and produce new directions…
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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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