Category: General

  • 21 days

    Back once again on the eastward edge of Sheffield, after a week (plus change for train travel both ways) of worky stuff in Sweden, with a brief detour through Brighton on the homeward leg. While in Sweden for work, I narrowly missed out on catching the Slavoj Žižek live experience (we got to the city…

  • weapons of mass distraction

    Geoff Manaugh / knows the score*. Your outrage is exactly what they want: … an endless landslide of trivial distractions has been steadily eliminating the ground needed for systemic political change. People who might once have been an opposition—or, even better, people who might once have been leaders capable of articulating a clear way forward,…

  • Wait a minute

  • Albion reimagined, blogosphere rebooted

    Paul Watson (ov thee Lazarus Corporation) has been reading vintage anarcho-utopias: Despite the clumsiness of info-dumps and/or other literary faults, fiction — or any other artform — is far better at describing, and igniting the imagination about, different potential futures than any dry political tract (or indeed blogpost) filled with jargon, references, and footnotes. That’s why even frothing…

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