psychochronologies:
The Future will be handmade?
We understand that the 20th and the 19th centuries are unrepeatable in ecological terms but in what way? How the…
Futureshock
Rockit by Herbie Hancock, an unlikely sound track in 1983, arrived as a completely tangential entry into the world of…
Parliaments of Dartmoor
The rugged landscape is itself the result of ecological collapse. Once upon a time Dartmoor was a dense forest. Then…
World Social Forum Tunis
.. speaking on social movements in emerging economies, Samir Amin brokered the possibility of a second Internationalism to realise itself…
The Hackney Cut
The changing ecologies of clean and dirty. As the river Lea bends and turns in through Hackney Marsh, it leaves…
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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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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