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Generation Occupy

By keir On November 13, 2011 · 1 Comment

It’s a year or so since we started work on our re:generation article. It took us a while to finish; we didn’t sign off on it until early January. Now the magazine Arranca is translating it into German and as part of the process they’ve asked us to write a post-script. As such [...]

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Clock time and life-time saving

By david On November 3, 2011 · 1 Comment

The clock, not the steam engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age. (Lewis Mumford)

During the Paris Commune, in all corners of the city … there were people shooting at the clocks … (Walter Benjamin)

Just like the clocks, the debate about clock-time is going forward and back, forward and back. See [...]

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London Anarchist Bookfair meeting

By brian On October 11, 2011 · 5 Comments

Another shameless plug, this time for our talk on Movements, Generations and Fairy Dust at this year’s Anarchist Bookfair in London, on Saturday 22 October.

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Ed and Edward on the ‘moral economy’

By david On October 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Besides the ‘quiet crisis’, the other term Ed Miliband seems to be using quite a lot at the moment is ‘moral economy’. Though it seems it was his brother David who used it first, in a speech at the LSE in March and in a speech he would have given this time last year had [...]

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“If not us, who?”

By david On September 28, 2011 · 2 Comments

One of the triggers for my post on Ed Miliband’s “quiet crisis” (published in revised form on the Guardian’s CIF site yesterday) was a Guardian Comment by Costas Lapavitsas. Lapavitsas suggests that the “return to agriculture” in Greece is “a sure sign of social retrogression”.

We begged to differ. [...]

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A Quiet Crisis

By david On September 25, 2011 · 1 Comment

A Quiet Crisis sounds like the title of a John Le Carré novel. At least from Le Carré we might get some real insight into the murderous logic of capital and the complicity of the British establishment, along with a good dose of well-directed cynicism. But this is Labour leader Ed [...]

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Listening to an ear quake

By keir On August 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment

You can, if you so desire, listen to a recording of the talk we did in London last week. If you can’t be bothered to listen then we can provide a summary: Keir plays fast and loose with thirty years of history, while rolling out some of our favourite riffs.

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