Intervention – “Towards a Metaphilosophy of the Urban” by Andy Merrifield

I suspect I’m not the only one thrilled by the prospect of seeing Henri Lefebvre’s great philosophical tract, Métaphilosophie, from half-a-century ago, finally make it into English. Thanks to...
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Intervention – "Vernacular Values: Remembering Ivan Illich" by Andy Merrifield

by Andy Merrifield* I’ve been revisiting the great maverick radical Ivan Illich, who died in 2002, aged 76. Illich was an Austrian who had no real homeland, a Jew who became a Catholic, a Priest...
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Intervention – “Future Shock” by Andy Merrifield

Andy Merrifield, Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge Speculating on the future, especially on the political future—and especially especially on a Left political future—is...
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Intervention – 'Crammed Contested Strip: Democracy in the New Republic' by Andy Merrifield

Andy Merrifield, Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge I was in Athens not long ago, at a conference called “Crisis-Scapes”, organized by a talented anarchist collective who a...
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Intervention – 'Here Comes Everybody: Joyce’s Urban Chaosmos' by Andy Merrifield

“He lifts the lifewand and the dumb speak” - James Joyce Here Comes Everybody: Joyce’s Urban Chaosmos Andy Merrifield, Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge One of the great...
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Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999)

Intervention – 'Encountering Paratheatrical Space' by Andy Merrifield

'Encountering Paratheatrical Space' Andy Merrifield, Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge Enter a strange room, any room you’ve never entered before. It feels empty somehow, no...
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Intervention – 'Doing the Right Thing in Detroit' by Andy Merrifield

“Neutrality isn’t cool” -- Justin Ravitz, Marxist Judge of Detroit Recorder’s Court, 1980 A little while ago, I participated in an evening of revolutionary politics at the Roxy Bar and...
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The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love

Derek Ford (DePauw University) on Andy Merrifield’s The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love;
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The New Urban Question

Donald McNeill (University of Western Sydney) on Andy Merrifield’s The New Urban Question;
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