psychochronologies:
Soft Power and Hotspot Life
A defining aspect of hotspot life is that it always seems to ask “so how long will this last?” But…
Our Purgatory of Consumerism
.. our corona purgatory is different to the mediaeval purgatory. If overconsumption or gluttony was once a failing of individual…
Shut it Down #YarlsWood
On a wet windy November day in Bedfordshire, outside the notorious Yarl’s Wood detention centre, Judith an ex-detainee is on…
The Hackney Cut
The changing ecologies of clean and dirty. As the river Lea bends and turns in through Hackney Marsh, it leaves…
Prisoners of the State
We have all become prisoners of the State. Wherever we are across the whole planet. It’s a time like no…
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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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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