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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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Revolutionary Leaflets and Comrade Things
In his recent Anti-Book, Nicholas Thoburn finds the communist escape hatch leading out of the fortified gulag of commodity-book production. Review by Anthony Iles Revolutionary leaflets and kindred...
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The Biennial of Very Fine People, On Both Sides
Further Thoughts on the Athens Biennalehttps://shutdownld50.tumblr.com/post/178020810821/further-thoughts-on-the-athens-biennaleThe Fash and the Spurious: Rightward Drift...
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Extracts From The Counsel of Spent
Drawing upon the divagating adventures of the fondly missed Inventory journal (1995-2005), Inventory have authored a new book in a series commissioned by Nina Power for Book Works. We have taken the...
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MEMES WITH FORCE – LESSONS FROM THE YELLOW VESTS
People have theorised recent social movements as memes before. However, they tend to make the phrase eclipse the content, placing the (representational) meme over the (real) movement. In the following...
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Antimatter
1 When you were scratching your name into the mirror another few hundred people died. I guess they exist outside the borderline of what you call ‘kindness’. Kindness which in your mouth has the...
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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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