Invisible, by Andrew Fraser (Freedom Press 2019), is a “diary of rough sleeping in Britain”. But it is so much more than that. It is a touching, heartfelt, genuine story and it is a scathing, seething, furious indictment of the …

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Book Review – Seances: Re-wiring images in the Amsterdam Underground E.T.C. Dee 2016, Self-published in an issue of 600 copies. Jeffrey Babcock is well-known in Amsterdam for his underground cinema screenings, which take place in funky venues across the city, …

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Book Review – The Autonomous Life? Paradoxes of  hierarchy and authority in the squatters movement in Amsterdam NN ISBN: 978-1-7849-9411-2; https://www.oapen.org/view?docId=608061.xhtml Chapter 2: The habitus of emotional sovereignty The following conversation occurred among a small group sitting in a private …

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Squatting as Spatial Emancipation Book review: Simon Springer The Anarchist Roots of Geography: Towards Spatial Emancipation (Minnesota Press 2016) (Download it in zine format here) Simon Springer’s The Anarchist Roots of Geography, published earlier this year, functions both as a …

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