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We need Zizek’s ‘Thatcher of the Left’ Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle

By Gabriel Levy 23 April 2013

The philosopher Slavoj Zizek hopes fervently for a “Thatcher of the left”, and pays homage to strong leaders, in the New Statesman this week. I th...

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Memories of Origination

By Jacob Bard-Rosenberg 15 April 2013

Closing this short series of essays on the concept of Natural Beauty in Adorno’s work, originally presented in London at Historical Materialism 2012...

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Not the Portrayal of Part of Nature - Adorno’s Final Words on Natural Beauty

By Tom Allen 13 March 2013

In the second contribution to a series of essays on the concept of Natural Beauty in Adorno’s work, originally presented in London at Historical Mat...

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A Glossary of Subsumption

By The Public School & Post-Media Lab 22 January 2013

25-26 January, 2013 | 12-4pm Brunnenstr. 155 10115 Berlin map: http://goo.gl/maps/gD4NI near: U8 Bernauer Str. 26 January, 2013 | Closing ses...

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Workshop: Video and Open Source (M)OOCs

By mute 20 January 2013

  The workshop will explore how video is being used in the new wave of distance learning software packages recently termed Massive Open Online...

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The Violence of Knowledge Cartels

By Nishant Shah 17 January 2013

  We are all struck with a sense of loss, grief and shock since we heard of the death of Aaron Swartz, by suicide. People who have been his frie...

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The Destruction of Buildings in London, 2010-2012

By Richard Braude 16 January 2013

An excellent summary of 'destructive destruction' loosed upon London by the ongoing financial crisis. Reposted from Pierce Penniless: I’m hosting th...

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The inconvenient Muslim: An evening to launch Homegrown

By mute 1 March 2017

“Muslims are only ever the object in an endless national conversation around Islam, rarely invited to define their own narratives. Homegrown ...

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Communities at the front-line of coal extraction

By Anne Harris 24 May 2016

Communities at the front-line of coal extraction “Mining is going on a hundred meters away. When they started blasting, all the dust was brought ...

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La Serveuse: Notes on the movement against the loi du travail

By waitress 24 May 2016

A collection of notes, written by a waitress, regarding the mouvement sociale contre le loi du travail (the social movement against Françoi...

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Some Notes on Syriza

By Dimitra Kotouza 5 February 2015

Five notes towards averting the most ideologically polarised reactions to Syriza’s victory in Greece (mostly for those not from Greece)   ...

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Whose Side Are You On? Response to Coco Fusco, ‘The State of Detention: Performance, Politics, and the Cuban Public’ (e-flux, 3 January 2015)

By RGN 29 January 2015

If anyone were to undertake a protest without official permission in or around Parliament Square – the putative heart of democracy in the UK – they should be aware that there was a high probability that they would be arrested. When Cuban artist, Tania Bruguera, announced, in December 2014, that she was intending to make a performance–protest in Havana’s best-known public square, despite having being denied official permission, her arrest was met with inevitable cries of censorship.

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In Conversation: George Caffentzis and John Barker

By mute 15 November 2013

*In Conversation: George Caffentzis and John Barker* To celebrate the recent release of *In Letters of Blood and Fire*, George Caffentzis and John...

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Antifascist and Hip hop artist, Killah P, murdered by neonazis in Greece

By Anon 18 September 2013

Pavlos Fyssas, a 34 year old antifascist and hip hop artist (Killah P), was murdered by Golden Dawn neonazis in Keratsini, a working class neighborhoo...

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Is the Egyptian Revolution Dead?

By Philip Rizk 16 July 2013

Philip Rizk on the meandering and swerves of the Egyptian 'Revolution', reposted from: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/12895/is-the-egyptian-revo...

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END THE CRIMINALISATION OF PROTEST: THE CASE OF TRENTON OLDFIELD

By mute 25 June 2013

END THE CRIMINALISATION OF PROTEST: THE CASE OF TRENTON OLDFIELD Due to unusual circumstances, this is an unusual newsletter, though very much rel...

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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...

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The Open Video Forum

By mute 12 December 2012

  The Open Video Forum - a joint effort of xm:lab, Mokolo.Labs and various international partners - brings European and African developers activ...

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