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Contours of Control | Weaponising Classical Music: waging class-warfare...
“Sound and music has been deployed by military and police forces as a mode of social, physical and psychological control for decades.” Ascending the escalators at South Tottenham’s Seven Sisters tube...
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Contours of Control | Eyes in the sky: the rise of the police drones
(Photo: US Navy) This weekend marked the culmination of a “Week of Action” to protest the growing use of armed drones by US and British forces in the Middle East. Drones – or “unmanned aerial combat...
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Sister Outsider | This Is How You Find Yourself: Junot Diaz, Diasporic...
(Photo: Nina Subin) It’s true and I won’t hide it: Roald Dahl was as far as I ever ventured with most white literature as a kid. Unlike my mother who was born and raised in a Pakistan still weighing...
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An A to Z of Theory | Jean Baudrillard: The Masses
Josef Váchal’s Cry of the Masses (source: vachal.cz) In discussing resistance from below, Baudrillard’s main emphasis is on the masses. The masses are the aggregate left in place by the operations of...
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Reflections | The Cultural Struggle Continues: Writing the Arab Spring
Ahdaf Soueif in Tahrir Square (Photo: Hossam el-Hamalawy) Poetry, as Auden said, may make nothing happen, but a number of writings emerging from the Arab Spring are designed to explore what Mourid...
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An A to Z of Theory | Jean Baudrillard: Catastrophe and Terrorism
The Oslo Bombings – July 2011 Catastrophe and Implosion Other possibilities of resistance arise around the issue of implosion. The system insulates itself against crisis by resisting explosion. It...
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On Corporate Power | On Environmental Foundations: An Interview with Cory...
(Photo by: 350 Copenhagen) Cory Morningstar is a Canadian writer and activist. She believes in direct action and initiated the grassroots group: Canadians for Action on Climate Change, a member of...
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Under The Tree Of Talking | Congo: The Unpopular Struggle
On the 20th of November Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, in the eastern Congo, fell under the occupation of the recently formed M23 rebel group – who stated that they will march on until...
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Counter Narratives | Redefining Feminism: Overcoming the Legacy of Exclusion
Feminism has become one of the most contested terms of our times. Questions about what the “feminist project” entails are endless, ranging from when it began to what the project itself involves. While...
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Sister Outsider | Mapping Violence: Why we need to talk about power
Racism/Incident at Little Rock (1957) by Domingo Ulloa When I started working on this piece, 22-year old Kasandra Perkins was shot to death nine times by her abusive partner, American football player...
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An A to Z of Theory | Jean Baudrillard and Activism: A critique
There are serious limits to Baudrillard’s work, in terms of his hostility to ‘minority’ struggles. Many of his formulations are inadvertently sexist and racist. There are also times when Baudrillard...
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Secret State | The Justice and Security Bill: Placing the State above the Law
Photo: Aisha Maniar If passed, the unprecedented Justice and Security Bill currently being examined by a House of Commons committee will allow ministers to use secret courts known as ‘closed material...
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Under The Tree Of Talking | From Eastern Congo to Cape Town: African Women,...
March marked the start of Women’s History Month, featuring International Women’s Day on 08/03, an occasion to celebrate and highlight the achievements, successes and general brilliance of women, and...
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Beautiful Transgressions | A Revolutionary Love Letter
The stories we tell breathe life into the world and ourselves. They are at once both testimony for others and a witnessing to the self. As Minh-ha Trihn writes ‘(our) stories are not just stories. Once...
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An A to Z of Theory | Walter Benjamin and Critical Theory
Walter Benjamin stands out as one of the leading theorists of the 1920s-30s wave of Marxist-inspired critical theorists. Like many of his generation, Benjamin writes from the standpoint of an...
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Reflections | Anthem for a Lost Narrative: On Thatcher’s ‘Emotional Household’
Thousands of words have been produced reflecting on the death of Margaret Thatcher but I should like to think about birth instead – the birth of ‘Thatcherism’. It is important to remember that...
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Africlimate | How the UK’s energy security panic affects the Sahel
Aid workers in Madrid enjoy a photo exhibition of the humanitarian crisis in Sahel UK Energy security panic and environmentally induced migration While the economic crisis grabs UK headlines, the...
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An A to Z of Theory | Walter Benjamin: Language and Translation
The Vocation of Language In the work ‘On Language as Such and on the Language of Man’, Benjamin presents an unusual, theologically inflected theory of language. According to Benjamin, every expression...
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An A to Z of Theory | Walter Benjamin: Art, Aura and Authenticity
(Source: thearcadesproject.tumblr.com) Perhaps Benjamin’s best-known work is ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’. This short piece provides a general history of changes in art in...
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Reflections | Public Intellectual, Immigrant, Activist: the many lives of...
John Akomfrah’s The Unfinished Conversation “examines the nature of the visual as triggered across the individual’s memory landscape, with particular reference to identity and race. In it, academic...
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