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…
The Jungle
… the undocumented created an architecture of a shadow society whose political form is unaddressed. It is described by words…
Parliaments of Dartmoor
The rugged landscape is itself the result of ecological collapse. Once upon a time Dartmoor was a dense forest. Then…
Frontline street
The street of May ’68 seems invitingly open, virginal, feral compared to the complex means of control and policing today…
Altieri on agroecology
It’s like a stool that has three legs. One that is socially just, one that is economically viable, and one…
The Claim to Violence
The purpose of this writing is to make a clearing in the time of this pandemic, a space for a…
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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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