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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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Things Ain’t What They Used To Be

New Directions in Radical Cartography

A Long Life in the Making

Political Mindfulness: Fresh Perspectives on Multiple Crises’

There Must Be Some Way Out of Here

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

Recent Posts

Things Ain’t What They Used To Be

ON LIVING IN A GREY ZONE

On being left behind : the haunting legacies of London 2012

Cartographies of Violence/Rhetorics of War

Living Maps Autumn Newsletter 2022

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