articles

I've Seen Gardens, Compared with Which this Would be a Wilderness

By Martin Howse 11 June 2013

Stanislaw Lem’s 1964 opus, Summa Technolgiae, has only just been translated into English. Over half a century later, Lem’s work stands as an aston...

more
articles

Wanderings of the Slave: Black life and Social Death

By R.L. 5 June 2013

For the theorists of Afro-pessimism, black non-existence forms a negativity against which white liveliness and freedom defines itself positively. Surv...

more
articles

Postscript (p.s. Forever)

By Rózsa Farkas and Harry Burke 5 June 2013

If all surfaces and gestures are mediated by capital, how can we imagine them becoming a ground for struggle? An experimental text by Rózsa Farkas an...

more
articles

Nice Monsters and Scary Sprites

By Mira Mattar 28 May 2013

  Harmony Korine's recent film Spring Breakers doesn't exactly reward stringent sociological critique. His use of manipulative, ...

more
articles

RIOTING WITH REASON: FROM ENGLAND TO SWEDEN AND BACK AGAIN

By Nina Power 27 May 2013

Why do English sociologists and politicians find riots so much more explicable when they happen overseas? Nina Power finds an international logic...

more
articles

2 Responses to the Riots in Sweden

By Megafonen and Pantrarna 25 May 2013

Pantrarna (The Panthers) and the sister organization Megafonen (The Megaphone) are two community activist groups based in Swedish suburbs. Pantrarna a...

more
articles

Weaponise Aunt Hester’s Scream

By Sacha Kahir 22 May 2013

In an expanded review of Arika 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle, part of an ongoing series of mini-festivals, Sacha Kahir listens to the anguished la...

more
your posts

Fortress Taksim

By Reuben & Gielty 5 June 2013

Report from Taksim, Istanbul. Reflections and reenforcement after days of chaos and drama. Our reporters Reuben & Gielty take to the str...

more
your posts

Dusty Mariee

By Xname 31 May 2013

Dusty Mariee is a live stream from the 19th floor of a tower in East London which responds to the Barbican's Dancing Around Duchamp exhibition

more
your posts

Talk: David Park A Painter’s Life

By mute 29 May 2013

Nancy Boas will be talking about David Park and the work of the Bay Area School   Tuesday 11th June, 6pm, Thomas Williams Gallery, 22 Old B...

more
your posts

Report on the London Counter-EDL demonstration

By Anonymous 28 May 2013

Some thoughts on the counter-EDL demonstration in London yesterday, and about the EDL in general:  1. The disproportion between EDL and anti-f...

more
your posts

Wealth of Negations - Terms and Conditions Management Edition

By mute 23 May 2013

Wealth of Negations, grammatical naysayers have brought out a second acerbic edition glossarising the crisis of language in the crisis of the capital ...

more
lab

Archivist Manifesto

By Yuk Hui 22 May 2013

We are archivists, since we have to be. We don't have choice. This decision is already made, or determined by the contemporary technological condition. The ubiquity of information in digital, calculable forms has created a new situation of work and exploitation, we entered an endless process of data production, and then we also enter an endless black hole of data navigation.

more