Bill Posters – ‘Thief in the Night’ Installation in Chesshyre Avenue Council Estate, Manchester – Plywood, paper, spraypaint on wooden stand. “The multinational financial institutions and banks, the hedge funds and derivatives markets paid no price – by criminal conviction or financial regulation, for their greed that caused the current […]
An Italian blog, 404: File Not Found contacted one of our editorial team for an interview. We’ve published the English version of the interview here. Viola Caon (404): Occupy LSX’ eviction happened almost one year ago. What’s left of the movement? Michael Richmond (OT): That really depends on who you […]
Down a small alleyway off Whitechapel High Street, a short walk from London´s financial district, sits Britain´s oldest radical bookshop. Founded by Peter Kropotkin and Charlotte Wilson in the 1880s, it has been a hub for the city´s counterculture ever since – a pick up point for campaign materials, a meeting space […]
The eviction of Athens’ occupation points at the dead-end authorities in Greece are hastily driving themselves in. In the early hours of December 20, a police unit drove down Acharnon, a busy thoroughfare in central Athens. Arriving at the imposing building lying at its junction with Cheyden St, they informed the […]
To recap: McKenzie Wark asserts that there is division in concept-forming activity between ‘High’ and ‘Low’ theory. I don’t agree that there is such a division and, more to the point, I don’t think that making such a distinction is politically useful. Wark’s high /low framework is a classic example […]
Dazed & Confused contacted the OT to ask about Occupy in the UK one year on. Only half the answers we gave were used, so here they are in full. There’s marches and protesting going on in NYC as I type – is there any activity in London? There doesn’t […]
Does it not seem strange that Kim Charnley would claim that my argument conceals its own “social position” while he makes no mention of his own? It is crystal clear to any readers of my books that I work in a university. Its on the back cover! It would be […]
Diggers2012 and ‘Persons Unknown’ (meaning anyone in the known universe) have been served with court papers. Despite the fact that there are no tents, structures or other items on their land, The National Trust (NT) is seeking an order for possession and an injunction prohibiting trespassing from a large area […]
There are still important questions to be asked about the relationship between the Occupy movement and ideas. Although there is no shortage of theories that offer an up-to-date analysis of Capitalism, there is less confidence when it comes to the relationship between these ideas and political strategy. The crux of […]
Our Norwegian editor Ragnhild Freng Dale offers a perspective from her home country on the outcome of the trial against terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, after the Oslo bomb attack and Utøya massacre on 22 July 2011. On 23 August, Norway drew a collective sigh of relief. The verdict in the […]