Category: Violence
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Empire: The Company That Became a Country
The political economy of the British Empire. Finance capital, informal empire, administrative afterlife.
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Empire: Pressure, Not Providence
The political economy of European Empire. Pressure and invention rather than character and event. Portugal, Spain, Holland and England.
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Chameleons or Charlatans: Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard. The purest form of resistance or the most complete form of failure.
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What’s the Big Idea
A list of thinkers whose ideas do most to inform this blog.
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When the Crows Visit at the Kiln Theatre review ****
When the Crows Visit Kiln Theatre, 6th November 2019 An adaptation of Ibsen’s Ghosts, relocated to modern day India. Seems like a good idea no? It was. In fact better than I had expected even with its visible flaws.. Anupama Chandrasekhar has written a play that takes the Norwegian master…
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 