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Books

Things Ain’t What They Used To Be

March 16, 2023 by normd

Phil Cohen A New Title from eyeglass books. Three years in the making, this book is an experiment in close collaboration between a writer and four visual artists who together take a stab at capturing the zeitgeist from Left Field. This is no prophecy of Doom or New Dawn but a groundling’s view of the theatre of cruelty which currently passes for everyday life, … [Read more...] about Things Ain’t What They Used To Be

New Directions in Radical Cartography

December 6, 2021 by normd

Why the Map is Never the Territory EDITED BY PHIL COHEN AND MIKE DUGGAN New Directions in Radical Cartography looks at the contemporary debates about the role of maps in society. It explores the emergence of counter-mapping as a distinctive field of practice, and the impact that digital mapping technologies have had on cartographic practice and theory. It includes … [Read more...] about New Directions in Radical Cartography

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

Political Mindfulness: Fresh Perspectives on Multiple Crises’

June 24, 2020 by normd

By Phil Cohen The text assembled here represents a thoughtful attempt to begin to find a way out of the current impasse in which progressive politics finds itself. The collection explores the connections between the personal and political dimensions of mindfulness and how this might help us build strategies capable of winning the battle for hearts and … [Read more...] about Political Mindfulness: Fresh Perspectives on Multiple Crises’

There Must Be Some Way Out of Here

April 26, 2020 by normd

THERE MUST BE SOME WAY OUT OF HERE

Political Mindfulness and Left responses to a multiple crisis Edited by Phil Cohen With contributions from Ruth Lister,Angela McRobbie, Dick Pountain, Michael Rustin, and Valerie Walkerdone   Taken together  the pieces assembled here  represent a thoughtful attempt to begin to  find a way out of the current impasse in which the Left finds itself, … [Read more...] about There Must Be Some Way Out of Here

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    December 1, 2024
    Sadly Phil Cohen died on November 7th 2024. Funeral details and a link to his obituary can be found here...
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    November 27, 2024
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  • WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET : A DOUBLE TAKE ON THE UK ELECTION  2024 

    July 15, 2024
    Note: These two short pieces written after the June 4th election result ,  are  extracted from a  collection of essays , Studies in the Grey Zone, due to be published by eyeglass books in October. Take One:  One Nation Labourism and the Great Moving Right Show The question of just how and from where, and […]
  • Waypoints 2

    March 27, 2024
    Publication date: first quarter of 2025. New introduction by Andrew Calcutt This new book brings together Phil Cohen’s most recent writing and spans the period from the Covid 19 pandemic to the ongoing wars in the Ukraine and Gaza. Like the pieces in the first Waypoints volume, these essays are occasional in that they were […]
  • Living Maps : towards a poetry made by all

    December 24, 2023
    Looking back on the first ten years of Livingmaps Network     Every project has its founding myth , a story about its origins in which the cold rational prose of ‘aims and objectives’ melts into  the thicker air of  an auto-poetics. The risk is that in the process  starting points become end points,  and the […]
  • ANTISEMIT-ORIENTAL- ZION-ISMS

    December 23, 2023
    The Triple Misalliance I An extract from‘Studies in thr Grey Zone; Waypoints Vol 2 to be published by eyglass books at Easter 2024 .Introduction One of the many  fallouts from the current  horrific conflict in Palestine/Israel is the way sections of the Hard Left have advanced an apologetics for the atrocities committed by Hamas, while […]

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