The POSTLIMINARY

Articles.

  • Trump, ‘Maganomics’ and the Post-Truth.

    Reeling from Donald Trump’s unexpected election and the seemingly ‘anti-economic’ EU referendum, the political centre rushed to find a new family of appropriate terms. This apparently new style of right-wing populism being characterised by profuse and self-contradictory misinformation, the liberal… more ›

  • Despatches from The Dole Office: Ed. 3.

    Recently I think I’ve been over-Marmiting my toast. I love Marmite but a little goes a long way, and this is something I ought to remember, as my morning ritual often borders on the overzealous. more ›

  • Poetic Despatches from The Dole Office

    There was a time before this, When I had a fixed address, When from the hand of the dutiful taxpayer, Was I rightfully blessed, more ›

  • A WAR AGAINST CRYSTALISATION!

    The last 50 years have tracked the death of individuality as dividuality takes hold. Individuals die as psychiatry structures them into networks of psychological parts. Moreover, they are killed as trends proliferate through organising bodies – the media, advertisement, sorting… more ›

  • One Rainy Night in Weymouth.

    We traverse in sawing motions, cutting our way across the face. Roots and wounds set in the ground. We plough our own furrows and the witch flies across the horizon. We lock our iron sights onto positions and fire our… more ›

  • Blaspheming before bedtime: A small collection of poems.

    A small collection of poems, written over the last two months, exploring themes of grief and hope, written between homes. more ›

  • Despatches from The Dole Office: Ed. 2.

    Okay, let me get my story straight. By about week 6 I had arranged a room to rent. In doing so, I was able to negate much of my immediate stress, and thus really settle into the boredom, and coming… more ›

  • Selected Excerpts from an Unfinished Article on Carmen Hermosillo and California

    In the early hours of January 17th 1994, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook California’s San Fernando Valley – the Golden State’s tectonic plates at play. Later that same year, Carmen Hermosillo published ‘Pandora’s Vox: On Community in Cyberspace’. Hermosillo lived… more ›

  • Ditch Theory – Go Have Sex PT 2.

    Organised thought exists through institutions. Journalists and academics tailor their work to the needs of publishers and universities – disciplinary architecture developed and shaped over time by market forces.  So often, even where not deliberately doing so, apparently radical publications… more ›

  • Despatches from The Dole Office: Ed. 1.

    This is the first in what, I can only hope, will be a short series. Better still, this will be a mere one-off special, soon to be forgotten about and left to rot in the annals of my no doubt… more ›