arab revolts column

Arab Revolts Blog #1: Notes on Rentier States and the Stalled Libyan Revolt

By L.S. 21 June 2011

In the first of a blog series aiming to deepen and politicise understandings of the revolts across the Arab world, L.S. kicks off with an anatomisatio...

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occultural studies column

Occultural Studies 3.0: Devil's Switchboard

By Eugene Thacker 26 May 2011

Demonology is not simply the study of demons, but of noise's assault on signal - a media theory avant la lettre, writes Eugene Thacker   Accord...

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mute column

Cashless economy

By neinsager 13 January 2011

November 2011, FT.  Paypoint, a processor of electronic card transactions using terminals  in neighbourhood shops, is expected to win a UK g...

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occultural studies column

Occultural Studies 2.0: Passionate Divas

By Eugene Thacker 12 January 2011

Doomed divas, the stars of Italian silent cinema, bring the sacrificial passions of the mystic down to earth, producing new and radical effects - writ...

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mute column

State & Charity, Blood & Soil

By neinsager 22 December 2010

Evening Standard, 21/12: "Foreign rough sleepers sent home to save on health care" 'Homelessness charity' Thames Reach will be paid £200,000 by the B...

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mute column

Don't Wait to be Hunted to Hide

By neinsager 23 October 2010

Following on from Benedict Seymour's precise placement of the analytical axe in 'We’re into Endgame', the previous ‘Fifth Column’...   T...

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fifth column

We're into Endgame

By Benedict Seymour 14 October 2010

'Cut us, don't kill us!' plead UK culture luvvies, but perhaps 'if you're going to hit me, hit me with the axe' is a more radical slogan? Benedict ...

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columns

Abstract Human Labour Found in Food - Shock!

By Benedict Seymour 16 February 2013

A Gallerte* of undifferentiated human labour has been found in ALL food. Traces of it have also been found in ALL other commodities! Could it be tha...

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fifth column

Notes on Normcore

By Benedict Seymour 29 May 2014

Written in a (normcore-appropriate) low fever, reading these notes over they seem mad enough to make some sense. A response to the great Tom Fran...

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