I met her on a Friday night. She was helping at a youth project in inner London, to which she had been invited by a mutual friend who was a youth worker. Steve Latham She ran some ice-breaker games with games to loosen the kids up, for the […]
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EdgeNotes
The bullying bug
I distinctly remember walking down the road from the railway station on the way home from school, the spit dripping down the back of my coat as the other boys spat huge gobs at my retreating figure. Steve Latham This was merely one episode in the bullying that […]
Autonomist Abdication?
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi is an old school Italian marxist. Rising up during the 1960s, he spent years in exile in France, during the repression of the 1970s. Steve Latham Now a new superstar of the far left, he has released a new book, “Schizo Mail”, based on short […]
The urban void (2): The spiritual aspect
Last week I wrote about how the cityscape contains empty spaces, voids, which are the as-yet undeveloped tracts within the urban setting. Steve Latham But the word ‘void’ possesses a dual meaning. It is also a spiritual word. The void is what mystics experience in the depth of […]
The urban void (1): The political dimension
Some neighbourhoods in our cities are labelled ‘void’, or ‘empty space’. They are treated as ‘nothing’. Steve Latham The journal ‘City’, which analyses urban trends, has used a Spanish word, to characterise these spaces as ‘nada’. It isn’t that there is nothing there. There are derelict, unoccupied, […]
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