Revisiting Laing

Anti-psychiatry drove at the foundations of both institutions – the family and the asylum. But in the process the asylum…
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Laing asylum

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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Calais drawing

tent Xx

Perhaps the best measure of the significance of Democracy Village as a tent city is to contrast it with what…
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Democracy Village Siraj Izhar

Hackney Marsh Crow

I zone in on a crow. Each time it’s the same, sideways glances from the crow, turns of the head,…
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Hackney Marsh crow

Lichtenberg Diary

In the so-called “peaceful revolution” of the German unification or die Wende, the transfer from system to system, whether of…
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Lichtenberg Diary

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

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Alt-McWorld

.. in a time when ‘democracy’ has been long been sold to the interests of capital, the measure of a…
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Rap vs. The State

Through rappers such as Bob Vylan and Kneecap, an insurgent rap tells us why the scale of killing in Gaza…
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Bob Vylan O2. Siraj Izhar

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