it's not doom if it's the best case scenario
Authors: Nicholas Beuret and Gareth BrownPublished: Oct 2015, Salvage Magazine The culture of the Anthropocene crawls with narratives of survival. A quick glance at the last few years’ TV and cinema listings reveals a plethora of such things, suggesting that the public appetite is strong enough for these narratives now to be considered an aspect…
Authors: Camille Barbagallo and Nicholas Beuret Issue 15: Winter 2012: Care Work and the Commons edited by Silvia Federici and Camille Barbagallo We wrote the following article almost two years ago, when the global economic crisis had in many ways just begun, as had the intensification of the neo-liberal program of ‘austerity’ in Britain. Stuart…
Authors: Camille Barbagallo and Nicholas Beuret (2012) Book chapter in: Occupy Everything! Reflections on why it’s kicking off everywhereEdited by Alessio Lunghi & Seth Wheeler
Published: Feb 2011, Plan C What has been taken from them to make them so angry? Hope, that’s what. Hope, and the fragile bubble of social aspiration that sustained us through decades of mounting inequality; hope and the belief that if we worked hard and did as we were told and bought the right things,…
Authors: Camille Barbagallo and Nicholas Beuret Published: Feb 2008, Mute Magazine In light of Strangers into Citizens’ campaign for an amnesty for ‘illegals’ in the UK, Camille Barbagallo & Nic Beuret consider how such an act of ‘generosity’ on the part of the state would also reaffirm its power as the giver – as well…