Join us at the @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase next week, 20 & 21 June, for our exhibit on how comics & graphic narratives can help us to reimagine our energy infrastructure – free to attend, many other exhibits & activities, book your space www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...

Workshop in two weeks: "Knowing Infrastructures in and beyond the neoilberal university" – Friday 13 June, City St George's, London, hosted by @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social

Full programme & registration here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

The steady rise and sudden end of neoliberalism in a graph?

Graphic Refuge is out June 2025 and now available to pre-order in paperback: www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/G/Grap...

Throw your arms up in the air it's unbelievable I've lost everything how can he do this

The tight-lipped "suffering in silence" look

The "blurry action headshot"

The "face touch" in disbelief/despair

An upside of market turmoil is that the news apps treat us to a gallery of anguished traders.

I've been collecting some of my favourites (this guy is peak trader anguish)

"The decisive fact of our time is that, on the whole, we know a lot and yet we can do very little. We are both enlightened and illiterate." – Marina Garcés

How can we know the world in ways that are empowering rather than overwhelming? Where is the future of radical knowledge production?

Are you involved in community energy? Know someone who is? We want to hear from you!

We are looking for people to come co-create comics about community energy on Fri 9 May (London) & Sat 10 May (Manchester).

We will cover travel expenses if you need to come from further afield!

They may have U-turned on PIP, but this graphic is an urgent reminder of who exactly is being targeted by this circus.

and rewrite the headlines they would like to see

In collage class students remixed drab newspapers
into reports on pervasive anger and disenchantment

In conclusion, it sketches out ways in which the left might begin to mobilise effectively around infrastructure in the political landscape that we now find ourselves in, including through community infrastructure projects.

It then turns to the UK, exposing the affective connections between the rentier capitalism that is ruining Britian’s infrastructure and the racist riots that shook the country in August 2024. It argues the policies of the new Labour government are exacerbating this situation.

It begins with the situation in Gaza, arguing that each piece of decimated infrastructure there is a broken promise, a bit of future life that has been deliberately eradicated.

1 year on from the publication of The Broken Promise of Infrastructure, this essay for Soundings draws forward some of its key arguments muse.jhu.edu/pub/248/arti...