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12 Dec 2021
I recently wrote for @FailedArch on Sukarno's "anti-imperial Olympic Games", GANEFO, which was a fascinating way to learn about Indonesia's radical beginnings at the centre of the Third World project alongside it's postcolonial nation-building project
failedarchitecture.com/how-s…
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31 Oct 2024
welcome to my podcasting era
31 Oct 2024
“Our Government is not comfortable with the Chinese Government building an Embassy next to the Tower of London” @alistairmapier discusses Angela Rayner’s decision to call in David Chipperfield’s plan for new Chinese super embassy in east London.
🎧 : ow.ly/Hh1J50TWYWy
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25 Apr 2024
For the past half a year I've been working on this project to expand on my interests around the British Empire Exhibition. Please share with anyone who you think may want to be involved with our conference in September!
25 Apr 2024
2024 marks the centenary of the opening of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley.
This week, @LSofARCH, in partnership with the @BritishCouncil, launched a Call to Participation for a conference in September, to critically reflect upon the exhibition's legacy.
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15 Oct 2023
will never forget being condescendingly told by people in and around the labour party that not voting for them in the next election would make me responsible for the deaths of thousands
Labour's Lammy states that the UN Human Rights Commissioner is 'entitled to his point of view' on Israel breaking international law
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15 Oct 2023
these people currently at the top of the party have absolutely zero shame or conviction, they are alienating huge numbers of their natural voters. given that this man would be my local MP, he's just made my decision all the more simple
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8 Jun 2023
it's about time we start fucking up their food after what they've done to us
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Alistair Napier retweeted
28 May 2023
excellent (imo) critically supportive review of the biennale from this year's @NewArchWriters cohort here e-flux.com/architecture/posi…
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28 May 2023
so lucky to be a part of this! our @NewArchWriters cohort is contributing to e-flux this summer, reflecting on this year's Venice Biennale
28 May 2023
We start with a collectively written review of Lesley Lokko's 18th International Architecture Exhibition, #TheLaboratoryOfTheFuture. e-flux.com/architecture/posi…
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17 May 2023
Indonesia is building a new capital, a large-scale $35 billion urban project located in East Kalimantan. What are the rationales behind the new capital and how is it being pursued as a political project? These are addressed in this working paper 👇
eprints.lse.ac.uk/119201/1/S…
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9 Mar 2023
one of the best threads I've ever seen
9 Mar 2023
Every Pritzker Prize laureate, if they were a Muppet.
a thread:
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9 Mar 2023
in particular, I didn't know I could love I.M. Pei any more than I did until now
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3 Oct 2022
on a recent trip the airport security guy said to me "why can't all passengers be like you?" and I'm still living off that high months later
2 Oct 2022
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26 Jul 2022
disclosure – this was made by people I was lucky to work with at @RCAarchitecture, but it's a really great little video essay that really gets what's going on, ideologically, with the Olympic opening ceremony youtube.com/watch?v=m_9Yqpim…
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26 Jul 2022
exactly this!!
plugging this video essay (again) that I worked on with some friends last year that explores the ceremony itself and the discourse around it
youtu.be/m_9YqpimGlk
26 Jul 2022
it's weird the olympics and specifically the opening ceremony are deemed the last point of british liberal hegemony bc my understanding is that boyle made the NHS central to it to reinforce its centrality and act as a cultural bulwark against its ongoing and rapid decimation
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15 Mar 2022
how do I reconcile my half-British half-Indonesian identity with this kind of madness
15 Mar 2022
Absolutely dead at how this is how some countries showed up for the costume round of a male beauty pageant..... and this is how the UK did it
7 Feb 2022
recently scouring through some Indonesian YouTube cooking videos and they also refer to Kecap Inggris, or 'English sauce', it's a whole thing!!
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11 Jan 2022
aside from the actual issue here, @HackneyAbbott's use of the most egregious photos of the people she's tweeting about is now my favourite tweet format. look at those pixels on all their glory, this is queen shit 👏
11 Jan 2022
Just watching an embarrassing defence by Michael Fabricant MP of the latest Downing St. party to be revealed. Boris must be desperate
23 Dec 2021
imagine thinking 2012 was an idyllic British moment. just a year after the London Riots, two years after student protests for the trebling of tuition fees, and the beginnings of austerity.
check out this video essay I worked on which unpacks some of this
youtu.be/m_9YqpimGlk
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13 Dec 2021
how can you seriously say that "we are not a 'papers please' society" literally a week after we have passed a bill that could arbitrarily strip me of my citizenship without notice because I was born abroad? kmt are these people actually this dumb?
13 Dec 2021
Conservative MP Marcus Fysh who is opposing vaccine passports this morning on BBC "we are not a 'papers please' society"
"This is not Nazi Germany," he says
"It's the thin end of an authoritarian wedge"
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12 Dec 2021
I recently wrote for @FailedArch on Sukarno's "anti-imperial Olympic Games", GANEFO, which was a fascinating way to learn about Indonesia's radical beginnings at the centre of the Third World project alongside it's postcolonial nation-building project
failedarchitecture.com/how-s…
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12 Dec 2021
a huge thank you to the team to allow me the space to learn more about Indonesia's lost radical history. it's the first time I've been able to explore the Indonesian half of my heritage in my work, which is both a bit odd that it's taken so long but also an exciting first step
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