Essays & Interviews
Lines for Redevelopment: Developer-Funded Public Art, Gentrification, Displacement and Exclusion
Detailing the 24 works of art along The Line, a route of artworks that begins at the Olympic Park in Stratford and finishes at the O2 arena on the Greenwich Peninsula, Henry Broome relays the function of public art as a gentrifying force as he connects to local struggles against the forces of capital.
Against the Common Enemy: Godard’s Anti-Imperialist Cinema
Patrick Higgins recalls his encounters with the films of Jean-Luc Godard, who passed away last week at 91, charting Godard’s evolving politicization from his disillusionment with the Hollywood studio system that inspired his youth to his collaboration with the Palestine Liberation Organisation.
The Revolutionary Tradition of Kanafani's On Zionist Literature
Ghassan Kanafani’s political commentary was rooted in a broader revolutionary tradition of rebellion in the colonised world, which sought liberation through struggle for sovereignty and self-reliance. It is in this spirit that On Zionist Literature is not an appeal to the West’s collective conscience but is concerned with it only insofar as it facilitates colonial violence.
Approaching the ‘Entertainment State’
The US state has a long history of meddling in film and television, reaching back as far as the early 1900s and stemming from every branch of its secret services and military. Though information on this relationship is readily available, it is rarely presented to the public or even discussed in academia.