Tag: AMKent
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Binaries and Whispers

“The binary of my soul is a digit out of place”. “Right, sounds like an internal exile?” “Something like that, I’m no genius.” “No, but you are different.”“Annoyingly so.” Pen scrawls across paper, looping letters all joined and wide. “You want to be loved?” Small silence, followed by a sigh. “I guess so.” “What kind…
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Void Around Sunlight Sequel

A small update, I have began working on a continuation of Void Around Sunlight. It will be short and will follow the man (serial killer) from the first novella. I am not entirely sold on a title at the moment, however, I am writing this under the name of ‘Codex Parasitus’ . I will be…
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Surviving the Fall of Babylon

“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.” ― Cormac McCarthy A nation, a country, a society, all fall regardless of how prosperous they once were. It now falls, not by just an external enemy, but also by its own hand. Athens was conquered,…
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The Urban Growth Machine and Potential Difficulties
Introduction Before discussing the ‘Growth Machine’ (Molotch, 1979), an emphasis on the primary growth discussed will be given, in the form of a definition and a brief exploration of its example, that being resilience. The modern city is, like everything else under the atmosphere, subject to the rapid climate change that is dawning upon the…
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Sustainability
Introduction With the emergence of the industrial revolution humanity has, in turn, until more recent times disassociated itself with its naturalistic origins, and so had the field of sociology. The prominence of sociological concern in environmental and sustainability issues began to see rapid expansion during the 1970’s. Before that, the social science theories on human…
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The Development of Assemblage Theories: Advancements, application and its ability to analyse
Introduction Assemblage Theory is a concept that analyses the construction of both the physical (environments, societies, nations) and the non-physical (morals, culture, histories, social) as a process of assembling assemblages (DeLanda, 2016). The theory has seen multiple renditions throughout academia, such as Actor-Network Theory, which focuses more on socio-technological constructions, the human and non-human assemblages…


