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Phil Cohen Funeral

December 1, 2024 by John Wallett

Remembering Phil CohenPhil Cohen died on November 7th 2024The Funeral was at Colchester Cemetery and Crematorium on December 4th (1-2:15 pm)You can now watch the recorded funeral service here. Link to Phil's Obituary… … [Read more...] about Phil Cohen Funeral

Phil Cohen Obituary
November 27, 2024
Phil Cohen 1943-2024 Professor Phil Cohen, radical activist, cultural theorist, memoirist, poet and urban ethnographer, has died aged 81. ‘When I first met Phil Cohen,’ recalls Dr Toby Butler, ‘he was professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London. Fizzing with ideas, he drew together an astonishing array of artists, academics and policy […]
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 […]
WRITING BEHIND THE LINE
November 7, 2023
This is the Preface to Waypoints Volume 2 : Studies in the Grey Zone , a collection of new work to be published by eyeglass books in September 2024 PREFACE: Writing behind the lines The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, […]