Author: Oli
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From Below (2022)
A quick post to say that our feature-length documentary film produced as part of the recent AHRC-funded research project on mutual aid in the pandemic is now available for FREE online. Entitled ‘From Below’, and directed by the brilliant Matthias Kispert, the film speaks of how people and volunteers mobilised…
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What is a General Strike?
There’s been a lot of talk about a General Strike, but what exactly does that mean? And why are they important?
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Avatar: The Way of the Water review – tired climate clichés distract from Cameron’s vision
It’s been 13 long years since we last visited the planet of Pandora. During that time back here on Earth, we’ve seen huge tumultuousness: economic crises, the rise of populist politics, a deadly global pandemic and a growing climate emergency. But on Pandora, very little has changed. The main hero…
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Walking the Edge: The interstitiality of the Blackwater Valley Path
I’ve lived in the Blackwater Valley area for nearly a decade now, and as a keen runner and walker, I have frequently come across the wayfinding infrastructure of the Blackwater Valley Path. It became one of those ritualistic things whereby I would mentally log that I needed to research the…
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CfP RGS-IBG 2022 – Food for thought: The political potentiality of mutual aid food provision networks
August 30th – September 2nd 2022, Newcastle University Sponsored by the Social Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) and Food Geographies Research Group (FGRG). Organisers: Oli Mould, Jenni Cole and Adam Badger (Royal Holloway, University of London) Of the many horrific outcomes of the coronavirus disaster, the wellspring of mutual aid…
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Three strikes and they’re out: why we need to get the vote and strike!
It’s Groundhog day. Again. Next week, UCU staff are balloting for strike action that, if successful, would take place before Christmas. We’ve been on the picket line twice in the last 3 years, and still, we have seen no progress in bettering working conditions and stopping the decimation of the…
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AAG2022 CfP: Solidarity not Charity! Reclaiming the radical politics of mutual aid in a post-COVID world
Organisers: Adam Badger, Jenni Cole, Phil Brown and Oli Mould **We are aiming to have a physical AND virtual session – February 25th to 1st March, New York & online** The COVID-19 crisis has seen monumental shifts in our understanding of the world and of each other. Yet, despite dystopian…
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A line of flight? A Psychogeographic venture on Newcastle’s Skywalks
Newcastle was once touted as the ‘Brasilia of the North‘ by an ambitious town planner, T. Dan Smith. That was back in the 1960s when cities were seen as plastic crucibles to mould into concrete utopias, but half a century (and a corruption conviction again the Labour City Councillor that…
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NFTs are killing creativity
The art market has always faced accusations of being over-inflated and reducing the subversive, political, ethical and perhaps spiritual potency of art in favour of pure profit. Banksy’s ‘Girl With Balloon’ piece pictured above – where a stunt to shred an artwork didn’t go to plan and as a result,…
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Using Google Street View Archive as Gentrification Research
You may or may not be aware at the archival potential of Google Street view, but ever since the search engine behemoth has been photographing and spying on as much of our cities as it can, it has created a rather useful, freely accessible public archive of outdoor space. Archival…
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