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Pandemic purgatory

Our Purgatory of Consumerism

.. our corona purgatory is different to the mediaeval purgatory. If overconsumption or gluttony was once a failing of individual morals, in our society superfluous consumption is necessary to maintain our normal, its margin of profit. Our modern social rituals have ..

Futureshock

Rockit by Herbie Hancock, an unlikely sound track in 1983, arrived as a completely tangential entry into the world of pop…. a calculated use of pop to reconfigure the racialised body in the music industry’s designations.

Neu Hohenschönhausen Siraj Izhar

Plattetopia

Familiar as I am with the paradoxes of life in modern industrial housing, that the more humans are packed into concrete compartments the more atomised they become, such spaces are conceived through ideas about modern utopias and socialist dreams.

BLM 6 June 2020 Siraj Izhar

The Other Scene of Emergency

To understand the month of June 2020 enfolded between Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter requires a reading of its political space as a double emergency. For what intervened in the time of a national lockdown could only be described as another ..

Claim to Violence

The Claim to Violence

The purpose of this writing is to make a clearing in the time of this pandemic, a space for a clarity of confrontation between the claims to violence in it. The claim between natural violence and state violence – or between the divine violence of nature and mythic violence of law…

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Prisoners of the State

We have all become prisoners of the State. Wherever we are across the whole planet. It’s a time like no other time in human history or natural history. Is it a force of Nature as virus Covid-19 that has brought this about; or is it something to do with the nature of our State?

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