Assorted Writings

Feature stories/Essays Instead of Choking on Smoke, Sydney Workers Are Walking off the Job (Jacobin, 2019)Bucks Night (Westerly, edition 64.2, 2019) I Link, Therefore I Am (Overland, 2019)The spy who lied: undercover policing and intimate relationships in the UK...

It’s Not All Black and White

In On the Concept of History, Walter Benjamin compares the teleological view of history to the ‘Mechanical Turk’, a chess-playing mechanical illusion dressed in Ottoman robes that toured Europe in the late 18th Century. For those who see history teleologically – as a...