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Declining and falling again
How should we describe what has been happening in the UK over the last few days? The government and much of the media are calling the riots ‘sheer criminality’ and ‘criminality pure and simple’. Such… more →
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Declining and falling again
wrote 1 year ago: How should we describe what has been happening in the UK over the last few days? The government and … more →
Contesting the antiborder condition: Khaled Jarrar’s Live and Work in Palestine project
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wrote 1 year ago: What constitutes the nation-state? Conventional answers to this question propose that the nation-sta … more →
Glimpsing the wild zone of power
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wrote 2 years ago: In early December I attended a national demonstration in London against the cutting of state funding … more →
It could be you
wrote 2 years ago: Writing in the late 1990s, Mike Neary and Graham Taylor discussed what they saw as a fundamental shi … more →
Staging violence
wrote 2 years ago: Since the demonstrations against cuts in higher education funding on Wednesday 24 November there has … more →
The represented and their representatives
wrote 2 years ago: Karl Marx famously wrote in his The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte from 1853: ‘They cannot r … more →
"Its the occupation stupid", yet again
wrote 2 years ago: Usually photographs contribute to the construction of the news. It is more rare that photographs the … more →
Not just 'Avatar activism'
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wrote 2 years ago: In 2006 Mohammed Khatib, a leading member of the Bil’in Popular Committee, wrote on the Bil’in villa … more →
Mobile metaphors
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wrote 2 years ago: The thing about metaphors is that the more someone, or some collective places emphasis upon a partic … more →
History, ships, and symbolism
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wrote 2 years ago: Ships carry a good deal of historical freight and symbolism. Ships have transported people into slav … more →
'We' the population
wrote 3 years ago: I recently attended a conference in Tel Aviv entitled ‘The Winning Image’ (organised by the Faculty … more →
Art, Visual Culture and the Israeli Occupation
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wrote 3 years ago: This text was written as an introduction to a one-day conference held at Manchester Metropolitan Uni … more →
The politics of amazement
wrote 3 years ago: In his little book Notes on the Occupation, Eric Hazan observes that ‘it is not hatred that predomin … more →
Walking the Green Line, running the border
wrote 3 years ago: The Lebanese artist Lamia Joreige has produced a number of artworks that address the challenges of c … more →
Photography, citizenship, and the Israeli Occupation
wrote 3 years ago: Within recent thinking on citizenship a distinction has been made between formal citizenship granted … more →
“Come on, people, move along, nothin’ to see here…”
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wrote 3 years ago: “Move along people, nothing to see here” is one of the typical statements made by the character of P … more →
Photographing the Bad Lands
wrote 3 years ago: Corinne Silva’s recent series of photographs ‘Badlands’ taken in Almeria in South East Spain are goo … more →
The Late and the Current
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wrote 3 years ago: Richard Mosse’s recent photographs of palaces belonging to the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein … more →
When the Berlin Wall meets the Gaza Barrier
wrote 3 years ago: This text started out as a reply to a comment on my post ‘Creative Destruction on the Gaza Border’, … more →
