As usual, on Tuesday, we met to provide food for the homeless in Central London; only this time, we were not able to do so in our building, but had to do it outside, by the gates. Steve Latham In this way, we were able to guarantee ‘social […]
EdgeNotes
EdgeNotes
Hope in an end-time
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 […]
Coronavirus and a new society
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, […]
Class and identity
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 […]
City Time, or ‘spending time in the city’
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 […]
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