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Of Drones and Angels: GAIKA’s Sonic Images of Urban Resistance
“Nothing can stop us, no Theresa, no Boris”. This is how Brixton-born artist GAIKA addressed a small crowd while performing last November at Corsica Studios, an independent music venue in Elephant and Castle, a popular area with migrants and students …
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The Day Social Housing Hit Mainstream Media
On June 14, 2017, a violent fire rapidly engulfed a 24-storey tower-block in West London. Grenfell Tower became the most tragic social housing disaster in Britain to date. Grenfell surged as a symbol of the wider social inequality in the …
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The Truth is Outsourcing: Notes on the Post-Industrial Spaces of The X-Files
Any mass media phenomenon as big as The X-Files, the hit television series that initially aired on Fox from 1993 to 2002, will serve as a cultural Rorschach Test. How critics read X-Files will tell us as much about …
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Cosmopolis and the Right to the City
The right to the city could not be more urgent than it is today. Trump has already begun mass deportations, instituted refugee bans, emboldened xenophobes, promised to strip sanctuary cities of funding, and remains committed to the insane idea of …
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