We have held up both utopia and dystopia as symbols of alterity, to express this, often keeping them at not such a great distance from each other. The Communist Manifesto , for example, is utopian or...

YouTube video by Planet Wild

Math and bigotry seem to be the main coping mechanisms of the US capitalist class. Math provides the utopia — through technology and AI — as well as fixes election results, fixes labor, fixes society....

YouTube video by The Iain Duncan Smiths

The Housing Act 1980 was the big bang, the origin story for Normal Island. After World War Two Britain was desperately short of housing stock. State action, by both Tory as well as Labour governments,...

Guitarist Jonny Greenwood has crossed our picket line twice during Israel's genocide in Gaza

As the US empire declines, avenues for middle-class advancement, historically tied to racism and imperialism, have declined. Running out of its traditional gambling venues, the American middle-class -...

Living – or crocheted – canopies and a 3,000-year-old Persian technique are among methods being used to cope as temperatures soar

Experts say the switch could save millions in fuel imports, with solar paying for itself in as little as six months in places like Nigeria.