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WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET : A DOUBLE TAKE ON THE UK ELECTION  2024 

July 15, 2024 by philco

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 with whom it is  possible to throw a … [Read more...] about WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET : A DOUBLE TAKE ON THE UK ELECTION  2024 

Waypoints 2

March 27, 2024 by normd

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 prompted by particular contingencies, both personal … [Read more...] about Waypoints 2

ANTISEMIT-ORIENTAL- ZION-ISMS

December 23, 2023 by philco

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  ignoring or … [Read more...] about ANTISEMIT-ORIENTAL- ZION-ISMS

March Blog: Living with Painting

March 11, 2015 by philco

 Living with painting   The works which constitute the life and fame of artists decay one after the other by the ravages of time. Thus the artists themselves are unknown, as there was no one to write about them so that this source of knowledge was not granted to posterity     Giorgio Vasari Writing is present in the margins, painting is spread over ‘vacant’space’ -  … [Read more...] about March Blog: Living with Painting

My Latest Project: Living Maps

March 31, 2013 by philco

I have a new project in development: Living Maps Click on the link to learn more. … [Read more...] about My Latest Project: Living Maps

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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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