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The vehicle carrier Arabian Sea in the channel, sailing from Antwerp to Lomé, Togo

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In Amsterdam

In a bookshop is discovered ‘Brandscape’ by Anna Klingmann, published by MIT Press. It is an American book, published in the United States, and has the paper quality and object-weight that suggests something worth reading. Brandscape will be added to the catalogue of keywords that are being put together as a guide to the city…

To Europe

Billions of pounds have been spent on networks, servers, databases, computer equipment, satellites, cloud storage, web services and labour power. And yet due to a fire at Rotterdam station, no-one at the Eurostar check-in can tell me if there are any trains going to Amsterdam. I am presented with a vague, semi-apocalyptic vision which suggests…

Goodge Street

A politics of formulas, reading from the same script, here and there a word has faded, or been erased and a new one fitted in; but it’s a schema. Faces are airbrushed from the record. There is a sub-text of the embrace of loneliness, the strange day dreams that so many conjure up but express…