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Universal Discredit
This arresting essay presents an in depth account of the so-called 'system-upgrade' of welfare reform in the UKplc: Universal CreditReposted from: http://de-arrest.me/ For the sword outwears its...
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Nervous Costume
Madame Tlank digresses from and back to Anne Boyer’s Garments Against Women, which is many things. A memoir written by someone without a history. A garment made for no-body. A reproduction fin in a...
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INSIDE OUT
Marx famously described capitalism as mad and inverted. Daniel Spaulding re-examines speculative realism through an Adornian prism to disclose a thought of ‘the great outdoors’ beyond capital that is...
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Art’s Economic Exceptionalism
Whilst left critiques habitually relate art to capitalist commodification, few do this on strictly economic grounds, let alone cogently. Josefine Wikström argues that finally we do have a book that...
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Cesura//Acceso Call for Issue 2
Call for Issue 2. Corrupting Desires! Technique, Performance and ControlEmail to: cesura.acceso@gmail.comWe are currently accepting submissions for Issue 2 of Cesura//Acceso, to be published in June...
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Two Models of Inescapable Shock
Two Models of Inescapable ShockThursday 7 July 6-8pm Marina Vishmidt and Anne Boyer in conversation A Mute launch for: Marina Vishmidt & Kerstin Stakemeier, Reproducing Autonomy, 2016 Anne Boyer,...
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Notes from Non-Existence
Heinrich Haine takes leave of Common Sense with the perverse claim that some of the working class live in Islington and not all are natural anglo-English born. At least they weren't allowed to vote,...
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In Times of Political Ruin
Some reflections on post-referendum politics from H. GracchusIn these great times, which I have known since they were small; which shall become so again, if they are given time enough for it. – Karl...
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Exit Strategies: Danny Hayward’s Pragmatic Sanction
'What if our possibility is grounded in the uncoordinated?', asks Pragmatic Sanction, Danny Hayward's ambitious long poem. Among other things it undertakes a scarifying assault on the kind of...
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Policing the Knowledge Quarter
Sam Dolbear takes a walk through the oppressive reality of Brexit era London Granary Square is open to the sky but it also feels like a sealed model of how a future-London sees itself. There is a...
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Rubber Boats & the Planetary Class Struggle
The global border regime excludes from transport those who most need to travel, with deadly consequences. While migrants resist and overcome state control of movement, the dominant sense of the...
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Automate This! Delivering Resistance in the Gig Economy
In the workplace automation and technology have tipped the balance of power greatly in favour of capital but, as Jamie Woodcock explains, workers are contesting this situation, logging out and calling...
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Tools of the Trade: The History of British Restraints
What form of technology is the police? Rees A offers a forensic analysis of the tools of jurisprudence and policing yu cyaant awsk Clinton McCurbinbout im haxfixiashaman yu cyaant awsk Joy Gardnerbout...
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The Luxury of Not Being Burned To Death
Southwark Notes cuts through due process, the wait for 'findings', after the Grenfell Tower diasster to give words to what we know already anyway...From Southwark Notes Blog:...
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A Lesson in Media
A report from the demonstration(s) in Hackney last night in response to the police murder of Rashan Charles A lesson in media: last night was sad and extraordinary. For the last days the videos of the...
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Spectres Of Modernism: Artists Against Overdevelopment
Spectres of Modernism is an installation of protest art banners emblazoned with slogans dreamt up by leading artists and writers including Turner Prize winners Jeremy Deller and Elizabeth Price and...
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Chump Change: Decrypting Bitcoin & Blockchain
Artists and academics are jumping on the blockchain bandwagon and talking up the potential for cryptocurrency and distributed ledgers to mitigate austerity capitalism. Attractive as techno-monetary...
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Art, Value, and the Freedom Fetish
If art is a commodity, is it just a commodity, subject to the law of value? Or does art's distinctive process of production render it capable of a relative, and critical, independence? Daniel Spaulding...
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Capital and Community: On Melanie Gilligan’s Trilogy
In his assessment of the latest film in Melanie Gilligan’s trilogy on crisis, capital and community Jasper Bernes emphasises the necessity and difficulty of distinguishing between the community of...
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Building Downwards
In their review of Keller Easterling’s Subtraction, Luisa Lorenza Corna and Alan Adam Smart interrogate an architectural theory that makes an economic virtue of contracted social reproduction Since...
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