Monthly Archives: June 2017
The future will be back with a vengeance
Cornered animals are often amongst the most dangerous. Is the virulence of authoritarian politics in western democracies, often coupled with a retrenchment in free market capitalism, a sign of them recognising that they are facing dusk, or something else? In 1996 the late geographer Neil Smith published his work on the revanchist city, in which […]
The hollowness of future as a pastiche of the past – when will the image fall?
It is the parties on the right-hand side of the political spectrum which have appealed to voters most often with messages of preserving foundational values of a given society, protecting it against unwelcome change, proposing in some cases a return to a greater or more wholesome status in the past. Crucially, the future proposed by […]
Prisoners of Jebs
The Nigerian writer Ken Saro Wiwa once wrote a novel that simply does not age: Prisoners of Jebs. To rid Africa and Nigeria of its special criminals including deposed Dictators and the ever-present threat of their return to power and the troughs of corruption, African countries club together to create a special abode for them, […]
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