the hidden abode

Storming the Savoy - A Communist History of the Blitz

'A Sleeping Family in a London Underground Station' by Rachel Reckitt

Feb 16 • Fergus

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Tower Hamlets - Holy Land?

On some developments in fascism and anti-fascism

Feb 9 • Fergus

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January 2024

On Police Slapstick

Draft Syllabus

Jan 22, 2024 • Fergus

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March 2023

My Year in the Email Factory

The following is an essay I wrote at the end of last year and then forgot about.

Mar 23, 2023 • Fergus

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December 2022

2022 Wrapped

Some of the art and theory that lit up my brain this year...

Dec 19, 2022 • Fergus

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On Marxism and Comedy - the case of the Office (UK version)

‘None who profit by the profit system can exist within it without shame, and this deforms even the undeformed joys’

Dec 15, 2022 • Fergus

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November 2022

The Working Man’s Eye

I’ve been researching the Workers Photography Movement, which bloomed throughout Europe in the interwar years of the twentieth-century.

Nov 1, 2022 • Fergus

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October 2022

The worker's new hands

I don’t see many adverts on tv these days, but since I’ve been catching up on Channel Four’s excellent English Revolution drama (The Devil’s Whore…

Oct 22, 2022 • Fergus

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August 2022

'Warmth is ebbing from things' - Walter Benjamin and the present crisis

Today I picked up a short essay by Walter Benjamin, included in One Way Street, and entitled Imperial Panorama: A Tour of German Inflation. As I read…

Aug 24, 2022 • Fergus

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On Klee's Partie aus G

After wandering alone in the dark for some time, you stumble across a town and it is dancing…

Aug 18, 2022 • Fergus

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Good Dog

a short story about robots and revolution

Aug 11, 2022 • Fergus

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On 'Muschel von Margate'

art and petromodernity

Aug 9, 2022 • Fergus

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