Assorted Writings

by | Apr 21, 2020 | Uncategorized

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

by | Aug 19, 2019 | Uncategorized

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...