What would a radical pedagogy feel like? Have we forgotten? Did we ever know? Perhaps, in the moments we do experience it, we don’t recognise it as being anything like pedagogy, learning or understanding (that is, the collective and collectivising transmission and production of ideas, strategies and practices.) What we need […]
It’s difficult to overstate the importance of last year’s eight million strong Spanish indignados movement to the new paradigm of networked, technologically enabled protest. Most obviously, it provided the meme and the template for Occupy in its attempt (for better or worse) to form a pluralistic mass movement that said […]
In Madison, Wisconsin, you can’t avoid politics. The graffiti outside the state Capitol Building, the snatches of overheard discussions in the bars, and the commemorative cards at the radical bookstore all relate to one thing: the events that have unfolded since the rebellion of March 2011. Against the backdrop of […]
Britain is coming to terms with the latest in a series of attacks on young people as a lone ideologue, with a history of involvement in a dangerous right wing group, once again targeted pupils at a state school in Central London. Witnesses of the attack, which took place barely an […]
COP This month things must improve as you’ve been derriere-lict in your duties. It may have been marginally out of your jurisdiction but this perp displayed a naked contempt for the law. He was clearly drunk and disorderly, indecently exposing himself and there was even said to be crack openly […]
What was born in a tent, died in a tent. Worn like the skin of one of Buffalo Bill’s victims in exactly the kind of enclosed corporate space it was built to dismantle, Occupy London’s Tent City University (TCU) was recently taken to a branded woodland glade in Suffolk where it was […]
It’s a shameful thing to be in debt. Once you’re in debt, you’re not supposed to talk about it. It’s your fault. You borrowed too much. You must accept the consequences of your immoral actions, after all, no one forced you to take out that loan. Lenders, on the other […]
After the May Day action, which brought 50,000 people to the streets of Manhattan, OWS activists met to consider their next steps. As powerful as May Day had been, it did not shape a narrative for the future. So “Occupy Theory”, the working group that publishes Tidal (http://occupytheory.org), convened a […]
The question of the repayment of public debt is undeniably a taboo subject. Heads of state and governments, the European Central Bank (ECB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Commission and the mainstream media present it as inevitable, indisputable and obligatory. The people have no other choice than to knuckle […]
With the government announcing plans to update the citizenship test to be taken by people seeking a UK passport, the OT, ever keen to assist, offers the following alternative test. How well do you know the real Britain? 1. St. George is the patron saint of England, but was he: […]