When the House Is Built, the Scaffolding Can Be Taken Down
Issue 25 of my Crossed Lines newsletter, announcing Homeward Bound, the first online series from a school called HOME.
The Price of Life
Written as the Covid-19 pandemic arrived in Europe, this is an essay about the encounter with parental mortality.
The Dream-led Dance: Ten years of learning to publish Dark Mountain
Written for a special issue of OEI on Publishing Practices, Publishing Poetics.
The Vital Compass: A Conversation With Vanessa Andreotti
Talking about the work of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective for the tenth anniversary issue of Dark Mountain.
The Curious Tale of Boris Johnson’s Heart
‘I want to tell you a story about Boris Johnson’s heart. There’s a woman involved, but this isn’t what you’re thinking.’
The role(s) of art under the shadow of climate change
An unfinished list of the roles that art can sometimes play. This comes from the work I did with Riksteatern in 2015-16.
What’s Happening in Sweden?
A long read about Sweden, its story of itself and the role this country plays in the political imagination of millions of people who have never been here.
Negotiating the Surrender
An essay written for This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook (Penguin, 2019).
After We Stop Pretending
An essay for Dark Mountain: Issue 15 on the strange hot summer of 2018 and the beginnings of the new climate movements.
Deschooling Revisited
Writing about Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society (1971) for Issue 25 of STIR magazine.
The View From the Kitchen Table
Issue 19 of my Crossed Lines newsletter was a report on the first year of this school called HOME.
Endangered Knowledge: A Report on the Dark Mountain Project
Written for a special issue of the journal KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination and Preservation Studies.