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Hackney Marsh Crow
I zone in on a crow. Each time it’s the same, sideways glances from the crow, turns of the head,…
The Claim to Violence
The purpose of this writing is to make a clearing in the time of this pandemic, a space for a…
Revisiting Laing
Anti-psychiatry drove at the foundations of both institutions – the family and the asylum. But in the process the asylum…
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…
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…
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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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