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

Darkness Visible

In the light of 60’s optimism Sartre had seen the destiny of the colonised, in effect the parents of the…
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Calais NYE Siraj Izhar

terra nullius Jules Ferry

a postcolonial terra nullius re-emerges out of history as a necessary political conception. It manifests in the ever-multiplying colonies…
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Jules Ferry Calais 2016 Siraj Izhar

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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Hackney Marsh

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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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