The Dispossessed

The Dispossessed

Atro had once explained to him how this was managed, how the sergeants could give the privates orders, how the lieutenants could give the privates and the sergeants orders, how the captains… and so on and so on up to the generals, who could give everyone else orders and need take them from none, except the commander in chief. Shevek had listened with incredulous disgust. “You call that organization?” he had inquired. “You even call it discipline? But it is neither. It is a coercive mechanism of extraordinary inefficiency

American Pastoral

American Pastoral

Five years pass, five years searching for an explanation, going back over everything, over the circumstances that shaped her, the people and the events that influenced her, and none of it adequate to begin to explain the bombing until he remembers the Buddhist monks,...
Tweet truth to power

Tweet truth to power

Tomorrow I’m doing my first ever screenprinting course, and with tongue lightly stuck in cheek, I’ve just done this Tweet Truth To Power design with a picture of a protesting young fella I tried to ‘Banksy’. Obviously once I unleash this bad...
The Year Of Dreaming Dangerously

The Year Of Dreaming Dangerously

In San Francisco on Sunday October 16, 2011, in an echo of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a man addressed the crowd with an invitation to participate as if it were a happening in the 1960s hippy style: “They are asking us what is our program. We have no...
It was a food day (sorry Ice Cube)

It was a food day (sorry Ice Cube)

All Ice Cube puns aside, October 15th and 16th 2011 will certainly go down as the days the voices of the people were amplified. As I work in development, I’ve been really engaged with World Food Day this year. Even though it isn’t a big deal in the UK,...