“Only war makes it possible to mobilize all of today’s technical resources while maintaining the property system.”

- Walter Benjamin, 1936

About Jonathan Moses

Jonathan Moses is a political activist and teacher of English Literature, History and Sociology in Kent. He is starting an MA in Architectural History next year at UCL (Bartlett School of Architecture).

Articles by Jonathan Moses

Byron, Brewdog, and the recuperation of radical aesthetics

Jonathan Moses 10 May 2013

'Dirty Burger' rebellion versus the experience and traditions of genuine anti-capitalist space. This week's Friday Essay.

Who killed Ian Tomlinson? A rogue cop? Or Britain and her culture of policing dissent?

Jonathan Moses 20 July 2012

Ian Tomlinson's death was not an isolated incident but symptomatic of an endemic culture of violence in the policing of protest in Britain. Yesterday's verdict that PC Simon Harwood was not guilty will only bolster the impunity of the Territorial Support Group and an atmosphere in which protesters are unquestioningly viewed as legitimate targets by the police and media.

The city we built and they stole

Jonathan Moses 19 June 2012

David Harvey's recent book Rebel Cities explores the potential for Marxist theory to go beyond the workplace and find a new formulation around communal urban experience. Though packaged in a sometimes muddled critique, Jonathan Moses finds Harvey's call powerful and timely.

In defence of Black Bloc

Jonathan Moses 5 April 2011

The state, with its monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, can afford to be idiotic in its analysis of the black bloc, denouncing their actions on March 26th as "mindless violence". But the clamouring within the anti-cuts movement to disown this element violates the basic principles of solidarity.

Dealing with dissent - The view from the authorities

Jonathan Moses 22 February 2011

How is dissent understood in the UK by those tasked with its “facilitation”? Several sources have emerged in the last month which give an indication of the contradictory environment in which public order policing is evolving.

Postmodernism in the Streets: the tactics of protest are changing

Jonathan Moses 22 December 2010

Three things were revealed by the recent wave of nationwide student protest. Firstly, the demonstrations represent a new political mood, that can manifest itself in excess and formless anger. Secondly, they cannot go on as unwieldy, monolithic marches. Thirdly, a new infrastructure is proving capable of rapidly mobilising disparate, localised groups in a way that can give form to the emergent appetite for direct action.

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