http://blogs.channel4.com/paul-mason-blog/labour-failed-win-worse/3671
The Northern Powerhouse is a kind of prism, being viewed from different sides, through different facets. The light, of course, bends at different angles through a prism, into different colours, a process called 'dispersion'. I want to examine how the Northern Powerhouse, that big, slab-like, declarative name, actually operates as a disperser of different political colours, and structures of feeling, in our present moment.
Because May 7th 2015 entailed nothing short of an overnight mental restructure, forced by the SNP rebellion, which emerged in multiple, often fantastical forms. For instance, the mapping of coal mines from 1925 onto the 2015 election results, showing clear correlations. The coal maps are, of course, redundant, but still meaningful. They are 'sublated', in Hegel’s terms, cancelled, but preserved and transformed. This redrawing of mental maps is good in many ways: to create social change, as David Harvey explains, you need to transform mental conceptions of the world.
