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In memoriam This site is dedicated to Riccardo Morandi, 1902-1989, architect of the viaduct over the Torrente Polcevera, Genoa, 1967. "A controlled formal risk in unrepeatable solutions" Tafuri & Dal Co, 1976 >> |
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On this 'simplicity of essences' These fragments examine the agency of the image in the neo- functionalist regulative repertoire, in particular, the technique of multiculture, situated here within a post-Fordist displacement of the organicist episteme (race and culture) and the further penetration of regulation into a dimension Julia Kristeva terms the semiotic chora. It is argued that as a strategy of subtle social intervention, multiculture effects a regulation via the Freudian sign intrinsic to the chora, and the comforts of motherhood. This precedes, but is grouped with, the thetic positionality of the mirror phase and the child's identification with the order of representations and images. The last sections of the essay look at the interplay of pathologies of culture, space and urban policy, and detail the spatial anxieties and processes of exclusion defined by multiculture and racism's poststructuralist critics >> |
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London and the 2012 Olympics Starkly, the Olympics are an interpellation of post-Fascist regularity, the disciplinary subject imposed through state violence, corporate sponsorship and gender 'enhancement'; and remediated (and expanded) by Blairite experiments in labour market and social regulation, acutely spatial phenomena. Project Mimique has compiled several press briefing papers for anti-Olympic campaigns No London 2012 and its later incarnation, Games Monitor. Background paper 1: Impact >> Background paper 2: Finances, profiteering and infrastructure >> Background paper 3: Governance >> |
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London Plan Working Group Response from MACE Housing Co-operative Ltd. to the Mayor of London on (The London Plan) DRAFT Sub Regional Development Framework East London >> Examination in Public London Plan Alterations 2006. Matter 1/Matter 3/MACE Housing Co-operative (LPA 222) >> Submission to London Plan Further Alterations Public Consultation. Policy 3B.12 Improving employment opportunities for Londoners >> Known housing co-operatives in London >> 'In the image of God': A statement on Project Mimique's withdrawal from public participation in planning >> |
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Biopolitical regulation of the Shoreditch late-night
economy In South Shoreditch, planning operates with a disciplinary rationale, predicated on a policing of the norm, and bolstered by the spectre of public nuisance and moral hazard which define the interpretive index of proposals. Biopolitical regulation of the Shoreditch late-night economy >> Slow death: Conservation regulation and urban entropy >> Overdetermination and VICE Magazine >> |
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Open letter against the criminalization of critical academic
research and political engagement in Germany FREE DR. ANDREJ HOLM AND HIS CO-DEFENDANTS NOW! >> ***UPDATE Andrej's arrest warrant has been overturned. More news on this page >> |
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Trial by space; in memory of my mother Such a loss is uncommunicable. One cannot talk to the bereaved because they suffer from the closures of their own distress, which states its magnitude. The non-bereaved hold loss in contempt, as self-indulgent. The medics focus on symptoms alone. The upshot is that, outside of therapy, one is never allowed to speak >> |
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In search of truth where it had never been: A critique of
public consultation in urban planning Hackney Council's LDF Statement of Community Involvement stands as a measure of professional performance, it defers to a 'calculable technology' (Rose), and as such attempts to render expertise governable. Populace are rationalised as 'community' rather than 'civil society', a strategic choice of New Labour government, and one implicated in the closure of conflict >> |
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To trim the flight, barkless, but born of play A few words on Project Mimique >> |
Links European Roma Rights Center, Budapest >> Urban Resource Centre, Karachi >> Capital & Class >> Generation >> European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies >> London Psychogeographical Association >> Seven by Nine Squares >> Stewart Home >> tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE >> Infopool >> Horsemouth Folk >> Labyrinth of Visions by Bruce Stater >> |
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