psychochronologies:
Crossing the Trenches
The image is the means by which we both avoid the Other and yet represent the Other. As the rights…
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We have a situation in which the ‘aura’ of the unique object, which Walter Benjamin had described as being eradicated…
Darkness Visible
In the light of 60’s optimism Sartre had seen the destiny of the colonised, in effect the parents of the…
Futureshock
Rockit by Herbie Hancock, an unlikely sound track in 1983, arrived as a completely tangential entry into the world of…
The Workerant
In the unfolding drama of work in the digital age, new circumstance demands new language. Gig economy, on-demand work, sharing…
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 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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