I have a distinct childhood memory, of a scene from a film I saw, where a man is looking at a blue flower, which I remember as a blue rose. Steve Latham The image has stayed with me, throughout my life: a picture disconnected from anything else, anything […]
EdgeNotes
EdgeNotes
Libraries of Babel
I love libraries. When I was little, my dad took me, each week, to the local library in our tiny northern industrial town. No doubt, actually quite small, the library seemed huge to me. Steve Latham While he perused the adult shelves, I borrowed books of classic boy’s […]
Where the ‘bad kids’ live
It is strange how the English word ‘estate’ has different meanings. It may mean the plush land-holdings of the aristocracy, or a social housing development, for the working class and poor. Steve Latham When I was growing up, our town had an ‘estate’, in this latter sense. As […]
Abolishing the police
It is easy to think of socially useful functions carried out by the police and every now and again media attention is aroused when police violence and criminality is made public. Sean Sheehan Citizens are assured that rotten apples in the barrel can be removed but what if […]
The only constant in life is change
Slavoj Zizek has written that a frustrating aspect of the pandemic is that it continues without end, with no conclusion. It is an ongoing emergency, which proceeds non-teleologically in different stages. Steve Latham As we are learning, with the virus a permanent presence in our world, the implications […]