McKenzie Wark – Interview

|  Jonny Gordon-Farleigh interview McKenzie Wark |   Whilst suitably engaged in Guy Debord’s boardgame The Game of War at Houseman’s Bookshop, author McKenzie Wark talked with me about his new book, The Beach Beneath the Street, revisiting the Situationists and their...

Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Doma...

| Rashmi Rangnath | Can a tree and its properties be copyrighted, and those who customarily use it be criminalised? Can the girl scouts be sued for singing copyrighted songs such as “Puff the Magic Dragon” around the campfire? Recently, a corporation trademarked the phrase ‘Radical...

Mobilization versus Pacification in Braz...

| John Gledhill | Brazilians really are crazy about football, and poor Brazilians are as pleased as everyone else that Brazil is hosting the 2014 World Cup (and 2016 Olympics). Yet families who built their own homes on land to which they did not have secure title also worry about being...

Grow a Grocery!

| Debbie Clarke | Back in the early 90s, Unicorn Grocery’s founders felt frustrated at their lack of shopping options, and aimed to create the kind of place where they wanted to shop themselves—where their needs were met and their ethics not sold out. And so Unicorn was born. In the 14...

Don’t Defend the University, Trans...

| Amy Clancy | On 10th November 2010, following Lord Browne’s recommendations to slash funding for higher education by 80% and to remove the cap on university tuition fees in England, an estimated 50,000 people rose to its defence and marched through the streets of London. Further marches,...