There’s a stimulating essay by David Graeber that passed me by in the spring/summer 2005 issue of The Commoner. You can download the pdf file here. If you can ignore all the typos, you’ll find some original…
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Possibilities and the New Anarchism
Over the weekend, William Wall brought this 2002 article by David Graeber, which has recently been republished on the site Autonomy Against Barbarism, to my attention. It reminded me of John Green’s review of Graeber’s…
If It’s March It Must Be Lanzarote
Creature of habit that I am, this month means a getaway to somewhere hot and sunny. The heat is for my better half’s arthritis, the sun is for my ageing flesh. It also means an…
Books on the Fly
Each time I update my LibraryThing catalogue with my latest reads I feel guilty about not offering an opinion for the benefit of friends. It’s rare that anyone would actually want to read anything accumulating…
Urban Wanderings
Book Review:The Situationists and the City, edited by Tom McDonough, (2009) Verso. It isn’t entirely clear why Verso thought now would be a good time to publish a book of extracts from the writings of…
An Open Book
Talking with Sartre: Conversations and Debates, by John Gerassi, 2009, Yale. Central to Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy of existentialism is the concept of Bad Faith, the idea that humans avoid taking responsibility for their actions by…
Speak, Memory
When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies, by Andy Beckett. Faber and Faber, 448 pp. About a quarter of the way into Guardian journalist Andy Beckett’s impressive account of Britain in the 1970s,…
MAGMANIMITY – Castoriadis: Psyche, Society, Autonomy, by Jeff Klooger
In the July 4, 2009, edition of the BBC World Service’s discussion program The Forum, Nobel physics laureate Frank Wilczek, author of The Lightness of Being, gave listeners a succinct description of the nature of…
Dublin Psychogeographical Society Report 2009: Part Three
The River Liffey A menagerie lion running through the middle of Dublin, the Liffey is an arbitrarily imposed U.N.-blue demarcation intended to promulgate false dichotomies among the urban proletariat to imbue them with a consciousness…
Dublin Psychogeographical Society Report 2009: Part Two
Trinity College: Made famous by the rowdiness and wanton irrational prejudices of its fellows in the 17th century, Trinity College has in more recent years declined into a sad, dilapidated caricature of its former self,…
Dublin Psychogeographical Society Report 2009: Part One
Following on from the unalloyed success of the 2006 convention, the member of the Dublin Psychogeographical Society unanimously agreed that no further meetings should take place until all temptation to build on that success had…
Everywhere in Chains
George Orwell once said something along the lines of just because the news about the Gulags appeared in the Daily Telegraph, it didn’t mean it wasn’t true. The blurb on the front of Marcus Rediker’s The…
Cultural Dyspepsia
As a teenager watching Clive James on the TV of a Sunday night, I was never quite sure what to make of his combination of sparkling wit and sneering sarcasm. He was undeniably funny and…
Dublin Psychogeographical Society: Report #3
Being the third and final part of a dérive through Dublin with a map of Paris. Place Pigalle: Vibrant, albeit a little rundown, Pigalle tends to attract large groups of Americans, and, as a result,…
Sins of the Father
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