When the regular mechanisms of political narration break down, there is a need for something stranger: liminal writing for liminal times.
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A short essay based on my experience as an editor at Dark Mountain.
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When the Maps Run Out
A letter I sent to readers of Crossed Lines, three days after the election of Donald Trump
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Spelling it Out
An essay about the three languages you need to take a project from dreams to reality. Written for Jessie Brennan’s book, Re:development.
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Pockets: A Story for Alan Garner
My contribution to First Light, a collection of writing that celebrates the life and work of the novelist Alan Garner.
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Expectations of Life & Death
What is different today is that living to grow old has become a reasonable expectation, something we can almost take for granted, rather than a matter of luck.
A piece of political science fiction, imagining what it would take for Jeremy Corbyn to make a success of his leadership.
In which I sketch out a set of ideas about the logic of the commons, prompted by conversations in a seminar at the Gothenburg School of Design & Crafts.
Few things I’ve written have been more widely read than this blogpost from the morning after the UK general election of 2015.
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The Shield of Perseus
An essay about the role of literature under the shadow of climate change, commissioned by the Free Word Centre, London.