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Friday, May 10, 2024
EdgeNotes
When you notice a crop of books all dealing with the same subject, then you know something is up with the zeitgeist. Steve Latham In recent years there were a flock of left-wing books addressing hope. Terry Eagleton, Slavoj Žižek, Srecko Horvat, and David Graeber, all essayed their […]
My daughter commented recently that the global pandemic reminds her of all the dystopian scifi books on her bookshelf; a genre all of its own, there are even sections dedicated to it in bookshops. Steve Latham For my generation, growing up watching TV programmes about World War 2, […]
Throughout the world, far-right populists mobilise supporters along lines of identity: especially religion and race. Steve Latham Left-wing commentators decry this, because it subverts class-based politics. But (as a friend asked me) what is the relationship between these two models of political mobilisation? It’s ironic that leftists criticise […]
Thinking more about the nature of urban time, following from my two previous columns, I realise there is an expression of simultaneity in the city’s plurality. Steve Latham There are so many time-lines, happening at the same ‘time’; no single mapping of meaning onto the diversity, but a […]
Meditation is the route to enlightenment, of the outer, urban, context, as well as the inner, personal, condition. Steve Latham Paul Virilio, coined the term ‘Dromology’ to describe the scientifc-philosophical investigation of speed in contemporary experience. And this is the nature of the ‘urbiverse’ we live in. To […]
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