psychochronologies:
Shut it Down #YarlsWood
On a wet windy November day in Bedfordshire, outside the notorious Yarl’s Wood detention centre, Judith an ex-detainee is on…
Revisiting Laing
Anti-psychiatry drove at the foundations of both institutions – the family and the asylum. But in the process the asylum…
Trump tropes
the unrequited quest for a transparency of power also leads perversely to the One, a spectacular enactment of the Leader….
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….
Prisoners of the State
We have all become prisoners of the State. Wherever we are across the whole planet. It’s a time like no…
The Jungle
… the undocumented created an architecture of a shadow society whose political form is unaddressed. It is described by words…
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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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