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On losing the Royal touch

April 1, 2021 by philco

How do you map a monarchy? Depict the location of its palaces and other places of residence? Display the extent of its  material  wealth or  its  kinship connections ? Create a genealogical tree or a psycho-geography of members of the royal household? Or devise a cartogram showing  their  personal popularity or  lack of it with different groups of  ‘subjects’? A wealth map  … [Read more...] about On losing the Royal touch

A LOCKDOWN POEM

October 3, 2020 by philco

Crossing the Pandemoticon It began with a hand clenched experimentally to ear not so much a fist as a makeshift mouthpiece designed to broadcast  miracles speaking in tongues:   ‘habari,kangarooshni,slapit nego,nego,unulti possum! craaghi covid ipsit cunnilingo ? es krampit   todo   kwa heri ‘   a polyglot  mother … [Read more...] about A LOCKDOWN POEM

A Long Life in the Making

August 15, 2020 by philco

  Phil's has created a Vimeo video of the book with selected readings.   This is an afterword to my father's  memoir which I have just edited  for forthcoming publication by eyeglass books. I thought that the reader might  be interested to know a bit more  about the biographical background to this memoir, what motivated and influenced … [Read more...] about A Long Life in the Making

ON THE UNHOMING OF FAMILIAR THINGS

August 15, 2020 by philco

 What follows is from a forthcoming publication  with the above title by eyeglass books  which  contains extracts from my lockdown diary.  MATERIAL DREAMS : SOME  AFTERTHOUGHTS Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable--"'`Found what?' said the Duck.` Found it,' the … [Read more...] about ON THE UNHOMING OF FAMILIAR THINGS

Political Mindfulness and the Pandemic : an interview

June 26, 2020 by philco

In this interview  Phil Cohen discusses his latest project and two linked publications from the Left wing think tank Compass. How did this project come about? For me the starting point in this journey  goes back to the 1980’s , the Kinnock years, when having abolished the Young Socialists  because it was controlled by Trotskyists, they launched an initiative called Labour … [Read more...] about Political Mindfulness and the Pandemic : an interview

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Phil’s Blogs

ON LIVING IN A GREY ZONE

This text is an introduction to  Waypoints Volume 2 ,  a new collection of occasional writings  from the last five years  to be … [Read More...] about ON LIVING IN A GREY ZONE

The Map, the Territory and the Fog of War

This is an edited version of a talk given to the opening session of ‘Cartography on the Front Line’ seminar series, at the British Library on October … [Read More...] about The Map, the Territory and the Fog of War

A SCENE FROM AN UNMADE FILM

In memory of Mantas  Kvedaravicius,documentary film maker, killed in Mariupolis,, aged 43, by  Russian Federation  forces on April 4 2022. This text … [Read More...] about A SCENE FROM AN UNMADE FILM

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