11 December, 2011

retirement

This year has been extraordinary, with such a vicious roll between high points and low (and way too many of the latter) that it threatened to come unstuck altogether. But things are really happening, and things I cared about even a year-and-a-half ago now seem completely distant and irrelevant.

Besides, between the two part-time jobs and the part-time degree, I find myself with little time to keep the blog in any meaningful state, and the rest of the time is given over to DTRTP, so I’m going to retire the blog (for now), bar the odd cfp and photo, which is all it’s been for a while now anyway. If you would like to get in touch with me about helping the campaign, please email infinitethought[at]hotmail.co.uk

I’m not speaking much next year, and have agreed to give all the talks I can reasonably do well in the time available, especially with ongoing legal situations coming to a head in the next few months, but I might be able to talk about the campaign if that’s useful to anyone at any point (I don’t want to speak about anything else really). We had a discussion at the Bank of Ideas with Doreen Massey and Teresa Hoskyns this afternoon, which was really interesting, particularly on the question of public/private/common space, and it clarified a few things: I’m feeling less and less interested in alienated, isolated forms of critique or anger or what have you, and more and more practically interested in the kinds of collective work I only really theorised about before. 

So, see you on the other side!

p.s. I also deleted everything on the blog from before the riots this year. Enough of all that callow crap from my 20s hanging around forever. If there was anything useful that I did delete (I dunno, the odd Badiou translation?), let me know and I’ll send it to you cos I cut and pasted everything into a word doc: 532,556 words from April 2004 onwards…now that’s a lot more than I would have guessed…feels good to ditch it though. 

11 December, 2011

london seminar on contemporary marxist theory

LONDON SEMINAR ON CONTEMPORARY MARXIST THEORY

14th December, 6pm

King’s College London, Strand Campus, Room S-3.18

Jairus Banaji (SOAS)

Retotalizing Fascism: reading Arthur Rosenberg through Sartre’s ‘Critique’

The global economic and financial crisis has witnessed a deepening of
interest in different forms of critical and radical thought and
practice. Following a successful series in 2010/11, the London Seminar
on Contemporary Marxist Theory in 2011/12 will continue to explore the
new perspectives that have been opened up by Marxist interventions in
this political and theoretical conjuncture. It involves collaboration
among Marxist scholars based in several London universities, including
Brunel University, King’s College London, and the School of Oriental
and African Studies. Guest speakers – from both Britain and abroad –
will include a wide range of thinkers engaging with many different
elements of the various Marxist traditions, as well as with diverse
problems and topics. The aim of the seminar is to promote fruitful
debate and to contribute to the development of more robust Marxist
analysis. It is open to all.

2011/12 Seminar Series

12th October, 6pm

King’s College London, Strand Campus, Room S-3.18

Alex Callinicos (King’s College, London)

Slavoj Zizek and the Critique of Political Economy

9th November, 6pm

King’s College London, Strand Campus, Room S-3.18

David McNally (York University, Toronto)

Monsters of the Market.

Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism

14th December, 6pm

King’s College London, Strand Campus, Room S-3.18

Jairus Banaji (SOAS)

Retotalizing Fascism: reading Arthur Rosenberg through Sartre’s ‘Critique’

11th January, 5pm

King’s College London, Strand Campus, Room K2.40

Simon Mohun (Queen Mary, University of London)

The Rate of Profit and Crisis: Lessons from the Data

22nd February, 5pm

K-1.56 Raked Lecture Theatre

Duncan Lindo (SOAS)

How and Why Banks Create Derivatives Markets

14th March, 6pm

K2.31 Raked Lecture Theatre

Susan Marks (LSE)

The Left and Human Rights

16th May, 5pm

S-1.06, Raked Lecture Theatre

Peter Hallward (Kingston University)

Title TBC

For further information, please contact:

Alex Callinicos, European Studies, King’s: alex.callinicos [at]
kcl.ac.uk

Stathis Kouvelakis, European Studies, King’s: stathis.kouvelakis [at]
kcl.ac.uk

Costas Lapavitsas, Economics, SOAS: cl5 [at] soas.ac.uk

Peter Thomas, Politics and History, Brunel: PeterD.Thomas [at]
brunel.ac.uk

10 December, 2011

apocalypse, kent, cfp

CALL FOR PAPERS

DON’T PANIC!
The Apocalypse in Theory and Culture
26 - May - 2012. University of Kent, Canterbury

Much contemporary discourse on history has emphasised its constructed nature, relating time’s flow to some human, anti-human or post-human agency. One potential danger of such an approach is that the real urgency of timeand history can to some extent be said to have been neutralised, relativised, made too impersonal, reduced to a system of signs. Recent crises, such as those of the world economy, terrorist/counter-terrorist attacks, and ecological collapse provoke a reconsideration of the Apocalypse. Consequently there has been a call for a return to a certain Apocalyptic discourse within anti- and post-humanist circles (Derrida, 2003; Callus and Herbrechter, 2004).

We must now ask if it is still possible and politically advisable to consider the end as something that can be resisted, deferred or if a revival of Apocalyptic discourse is needed. On the one hand, a renewal of Apocalyptic discourse seems to go against the deconstructive tendency to “de-dramatise the end” (Klaus R. Scherpe, 1986). On the other, this return does not necessarily lead to an unquestioned revival of metaphysics, but rather may open up the way to a third alternative. This third approach could consider the Apocalypse as something neither culturally constructed norunrelated to human and technological actions, as something neither wholly internal nor external.

This conference wishes to examine the return of the Apocalypse in contemporary theory and culture. Some of the questions in which we are interested include: What does a return to the Apocalypse mean today? How should theory respond in times of crisis? What do our narratives of the Apocalypse tell us about our perceptions of the end?

Suggested topics include the following and their interrelations:
- Capitalist crisis
- Bio-politics, bio-economy
- Post-humanism
- Eco-theory
- Apocalypse in Literature and Film (Zombie, disaster genres, etc.)
- Cultural and sociological studies of the Apocalypse
- The theology and mythology of the Apocalypse

Please send abstracts (350 words) and a short biography to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
by 20th February 2012.

The Conference is organized by Skepsi, a peer reviewed online postgraduate journal based in the School of European Culture and Languages at the University of Kent and funded by the University of Kent.

7 December, 2011

save classics at royal holloway

An unprecedented action by very young people to save Classics is happening at this institution. The students have occupied the corridor of the philistine management to protest against the cuts in Classics and the attempt to turn the university into a business training college.

They are very brave and very passionate and very young. Unfortunately the new Principal specialises in brutal action against young people trying to exert a democractic voice. If you have time, will, and energy, see the pages Occupy RHUL, or Save Classics at Royal Holloway.

6 December, 2011

even the roads agree

[This is a real road sign, I promise]

3 December, 2011

crime n punishment

I took this on the 29th Jan this year outside the Egyptian embassy.

2 December, 2011

open letter to colleagues at uc davis

I’ve signed this pledge; you can too at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Here is the bottom line:

UCD is one of several contested fronts in a much wider campaign against the marketization of higher education. As participants in this campaign, we pledge to suspend all professional association with UCD until Chancellor Katehi quits her post.

Open letter to colleagues at UC Davis
28 November 2011

Over the last couple of years, in the face of significant obstacles, students and staff from across the University of California system have taken a courageous stand in defence of public education. We the undersigned condemn the UC management’s continuing use of violence to suppress this campaign. Like many thousands of people all over the world, we condemn in particular police brutality against protestors at UC Davis ten days ago, on 18 November 2011. We note that such incidents of police violence stem from the decisions of UC managers to send riot police onto their campuses to suppress peaceful protests.

UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi has stated that she accepts ‘full responsibility’ for what happened on 18 November. We note that the Board of the UC Davis Faculty Association has issued a call for Chancellor Katehi’s immediate resignation, a call seconded, following a nearly unanimous vote, by the student General Assembly. As of 28 November, more than 104,000 people have made the same demand through an online petition. The UCD Department of English has issued a collective statement calling for the Chancellor’s resignation, the majority of the faculty of the Department of Physics have published a call for her resignation in Discovery magazine, and a group of faculty in the History Department have issued a similar statement; so has the Chair of the campus Graduate Student Association.

We write in support of these repeated calls for Chancellor Katehi’s resignation, as a preliminary but essential step in the restoration of appropriate relations between UCD managers and their students.

UCD is one of several contested fronts in a much wider campaign against the marketization of higher education. As participants in this campaign, we pledge to suspend all professional association with UCD until Chancellor Katehi quits her post.

Signed:

Alexander Anievas, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford
Andrew Asibong, Senior Lecturer, Department of European Cultures and Languages, Birkbeck, University of London.
Alex Callinicos, Professor of European Studies, King’s College London.
Noam Chomsky, Linguistics, MIT.
Dan Connell, Senior Lecturer in Communications and Political Science, Simmons College, Boston
Laurence Cox, Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
David Cunningham, Principal Lecturer in English Literature, University of Westminster.
Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Stéphane Douailler, Professor of Philosophy, University of Paris 8.
Howard Feather, Sociology Department, London Metropolitan University.
Des Freedman, Reader in Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Greg Grandin, Professor of History, NYU.
Peter Hallward, Professor of Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London.
Ian James, Lecturer in French, University of Cambridge.
Gordon Lafer, Associate Professor, Labor Education & Research Center, University of Oregon.
Neil Lazarus, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick.
Jo Littler, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University.
Johanna Malt, Senior Lecturer in French, King’s College London.
Todd May, Class of 1941 Memorial Professor of the Humanities, Clemson University.
William McEvoy, School of English, University of Sussex.
Peter Osborne, Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London.
Raj Patel, Center for African Studies, UC Berkeley.
Richard Pithouse, Rhodes University, South Africa.
Nina Power, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Roehampton University.
John Protevi, Department of French Studies, Louisiana State University.
Jason Read, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine.
William I. Robinson, Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara.
Sinéad Rushe, Lecturer in Acting and Movement, Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.
Stella Sandford, Reader in Philosophy, Kingston University London.
Bob Sutton, National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (UK), National Committee.
Peter D. Thomas, Lecturer in the Department of Politics and History, Brunel University London.
Alberto Toscano, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Jeffery R. Webber, Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London.
Slavoj Zizek, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana.

2 December, 2011

capital reading group from jan, goldsmiths

Capitalism and Cultural Studies – Prof John Hutnyk:

Tuesday evenings from january 10, 2012 – 5pm-7pm Goldsmiths RHB 309 Free – all welcome.

No fee (unless, sorry, you are doing this for award - and that, friends, is Willetts’ fault – though the Labour Party have a share of the blame too).

✪

This course involves a close reading of Karl Marx’s Capital (Volume One).

The connections between cultural studies and critiques of capitalism are considered in an interdisciplinary context (cinema studies, anthropology, musicology, international relations, and philosophy) which reaches from Marx through to Film Studies, from ethnographic approaches to Heidegger, from anarchism and surrealism to German critical theory and poststructuralism/post-colonialism/post-early-for-christmas. Topics covered include: alienation, commodification, production, technology, education, subsumption, anti-imperialism, anti-war movement and complicity. Using a series of illustrative films (documentary and fiction) and key theoretical texts (read alongside the text of Capital), we examine contemporary capitalism as it shifts, changes, lurches through its very late 20th and early 21st century manifestations – we will look at how cultural studies copes with (or does not cope with) class struggle, anti-colonialism, new subjectivities, cultural politics, media, virtual and corporate worlds.

The lectures/seminars begin on Tuesday 10th January 2011 between 5 and 7pm and will run for 10 weeks (with a week off in the middle) in the Richard Hoggart Building (RHB 309), Goldsmiths College. Students are required to bring their own copy of the Penguin, International Publishers or Progress Press editions of Karl Marx Capital Vol I. Reading about 100 pages a week. (Please don’t get tricked into buying the abridged English edition/nonsense!)

Note: The Centre for Cultual Studies at Goldsmiths took a decision to make as many as possible of its lecture series open to the public without fee. Seminars, essays, library access etc remain for sale. Still, here is a chance to explore cultural studies without getting into debt. The classes are MA level, mostly in the day – though in spring the Capital course is early tuesday evening. We usually run 10 week courses. Reading required will be announced in class, but preliminary reading suggestions can also be found by following the links. RHB means main building of Goldsmiths – Richard Hoggart Building. More info on other free events from CCS here.

2 December, 2011

recent words and one image

[This was part of the gigantic metal barrier erected around Trafalgar Square on November 30th, presumably to prevent all those communist robots we have from pitching tents there]

If you read Dutch you can read my piece on horizontality (“Lig neer, sta op! De opmars van horizontaliteit”) here.

If you read Greek you can read a piece on #OccupyLsx here.

I recently reviewed the excellent The Assault on Universities here for Stir. Stir get a nice mention in Housman’s roundup of new online journals here. I visited the shop today and bought all my Christmas presents, and you should too.

I also discussed the Assault book with one of the editors, Michael Bailey, and Andrew McGettigan (also for Stir) here.

There’s a piece I wrote on the closure of philosophy departments for The Philosophers’ Magazine here.

I’ve also got pieces in the latest edition of The Paper and the periodical LABOUR, but these are meatworld only.

1 December, 2011

representation on strike and everything

28 November, 2011

luchese talk now up

The recording of Filippo del Luchese’s CRMEP talk ‘When the Slaves Go Marching Out: Indignatio, Invisible Bodies and Political Theory’ is now available as a podcast here.

28 November, 2011

bodies assembling: film screenings, 3-11 dec

BODIES ASSEMBLING
CINENOVA
3rd - 11th December 2011

Auto Italia in collaboration with Cinenova present Bodies Assembling, a series of screenings and workshops featuring moving image work selected by invited artists and activists.

Bodies Assembling strives to facilitate multiple readings or viewings of historical works from a current perspective, screening older film and video works from Cinenova’s collection alongside recent artistic and filmmaking practices. The construction of a temporary cinematic site at Auto Italia’s space will allow a discourse to develop that builds new relationships and knowledge.

Engaging with Auto Italia and Cinenova both as organisations but also as active communities of artists, the programme will express a range of diverse viewpoints on the struggles and feminisms present in the material distributed by Cinenova. Bodies Assembling will encourage discussion, collaborative practice and alternative approaches to the production and distribution of culture through film and video work.

Cinenova is the only women’s film distributor in Europe tracing a feminist film history from the early 20th Century. It is a charitable organisation currently run voluntarily by the Cinenova Working Group.

Bodies Assembling will act as a forum to consider the contemporary legacy of the film and video work distributed by Cinenova reflecting on the similarities and differences of filmmaking and its various economic and political contexts.

Saturday 3rd December

7pm – Take Up, Direct Action, Acting Up, and Lift
Activism, street actions and filmmaking; A Fantasy Whitehall and a historical insight into British women’s participation in the Olympics. Presented by Althea Greenan, curator of the Women’s Art Library (Make) at Goldsmiths.

Stock Exchange - Women’s Peace Action, Annabel Nicolson, UK, 1983, 10mins

Hey Mack, Tina Keane, UK, 1982, 15mins

Keep Your Laws Off My Body, Zoe Leonard and Catherine Saalfield, USA, 1990, 13mins

The London Story, Sally Potter, UK, 1987, 15mins

Watch That Lift, Martine Lumbroso, UK, 1986, 13mins

This screening follows on from ‘Women Artists, Feminism in the 80s and Now’: Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, December 3rd 10-5pm.

Sunday 4th December

4pm – Life, Love and HIV
Presented by makers of ‘Life, Love and HIV’, a video developed by ‘Adults living with HIV’ at Body & Soul, a pioneering UK charity dedicated to transforming the lives of children, teenagers and families living with, or affected by HIV.  This screenings is exploration of media representation of discussions about and ‘for’ people who are affected by or living with HIV, in the context of current government cuts for funding HIV education, awareness and prevention in the UK.

Keep Your Laws Off My Body, Zoe Leonard and Catherine Saalfield, USA, 1990, 13mins

Mouthing Off, Leeds Aids Advice, UK, 1991 (excerpt)

Fast Trip Long Drop, Gregg Bordowitz, USA, 1993 (excerpt)

Life, Love and HIV, Adults living with HIV at Body & Soul, UK, 2011, 7mins

7pm – Social forms of resistance, incorporating the principles for which they are fighting
“They struggle not only for the idea of social support and political enfranchisement, but their struggle takes on a social form of its own” – Judith Butler, Bodies in Alliance.

A selection of films presented by Emma Hedditch and Melissa Castagnetto (Cinenova Working Group).

Leila and the Wolves, Heiny Srour, UK/Lebanon, 1984, 90 mins

The Package, Dara Greenwald & Ona Mirkinson, USA, 2010, 10mins

Thursday 8th December

7:30pm – Material Interventions
A workshop on how to operate a 16mm film projector presented by Kerstin Schroedinger. The workshop will be followed by a screening in which the participants are all responsible for the projection.

Slides I-V, Annabel Nicolson, UK, 1971, 16mins

(More titles to be confirmed)

Friday 9th December

7:30pm – Her Image Fades as Her Voice Rises
“Sitting with her at the table, talking, her hands poised over the typewriter. The words in our minds, turning between description and analysis – to write the image, or to write about an image.” – Felicity Sparrow and Lis Rhodes 1983.
The first four films acquired by Circles distribution, which later became Cinenova.

The Smiling Madame Beudet, Germaine Dulac, France, 1922, 35mins

Light Reading, Lis Rhodes, UK,1978, 20mins

A House Divided, Alice Guy, USA,1913, 13mins

Often During the Day, Joanna Davis, UK,1979, 16mins

Saturday 10th December

4pm – Several films, one of which is potentially tedious
Huw Lemmey and Nina Wakeford present a selection of films which highlight the political stakes of the 1980s, when women’s relationships with technology and the world of work were addressed head on. The survey documents the variety of strategies used in political and personal engagements with the moving image, and have been chosen to challenge our relationship to the ‘unfinished business’ of feminism.

In Our Hands, Greenham, Tina Keane, UK, 1984, 40mins

Did I say Hairdressing? I meant Astrophysics, Leeds Animation Workshop, UK , 1998, 14mins.

A Question of Choice, Sheffield Film Co-op, UK, 1982, 18mins

Running Out of Patience, Serena Everill and Chris Brown, Australia, 1987, 40mins

Impulse, Ramona Metcalfe, UK, 1987, 1min

7pm – It’s like staring someone out who isn’t looking at you
A performative screening organised by Rachal Bradley, Kate Cooper, Leslie Kulesh and Jess Weisner.

8pm – Transfictions
A presentation of two film works representing transgendered people. The works explore a possibility to transform the film-making process to find new vocabularies that challenge the notion of the ‘universal’. The screening will be accompanied by two texts from Irene Revell (Cinenova Working Group) and an interview between Richard John Jones (Auto Italia), Michael Oswell and Terre Thaemlitz.

Norrie, Annette Kennerly, UK, 1997, 21mins

Transfiction, Johannes Sjoberg, Brazil, 2007, 57mins

Sunday 11th December

4pm – Workshop on “Several films, one of which is potentially tedious”

An open discussion with Huw Lemmey and Nina Wakeford following on from the issues raised by their previous screening.

7pm – The Black Whole
The Archivist and Acting Director of the Lambeth Women’s Project, Ego Ahaiwe, will respond to Cinenova’s claims to represent women’s film and video considering what has been left/kept out. The Cinenova catalogue is largely representing work by White European and White North American women. This event will ask how and why this collection has preserved and, to a large extent, maintained the excluding systems that formed it. This screening and subsequent workshop seeks to explore possible formulas, structures and frameworks that would transform the status quo.

Recreating Media Images of Black Women, Zeinabu Irene Davis, USA, 1983, 30mins

(More titles to be confirmed)

28 November, 2011

@socialbloom, new social centre in bloomsbury

Hi everyone,

A new social centre has been opened up in the heart of Bloomsbury. The location is a disused, former museum held in joint ownership by the University of London and the School of Oriental and African Studies - which despite not being used for at least the last three years is still in excellent condition. Our intention is to use the space as primarily an organising hub in the lead up to the November 30 strike in the area (Bloomsbury in particular and the borough of Camden more widely). Simaltaneous with this we are using the space as an ongoing opportunity to provide meet-ups, events and meals to students, education workers, support staff, residents and the plain curious.

If you would like to organise an event or talk - please feel free to contact myself or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or alternatively upload the event here - http://bloomsburysocialcentre.wordpress.com/booking-form/

Otherwise if you would just like to disseminate our existence to friends, colleagues and those perhaps who might find our assistance of some use our online presence(s) are,

Wordpress - http://bloomsburysocialcentre.wordpress.com

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/bloomsburysocialcentre

Twitter - @socialbloom

    Plain best of all would be for you to come down and see us! We have dinner every night at 8pm, which is the perhaps the best opportunity to hang out (though any time is fine between 10am and 11pm Monday-Sunday).

26 November, 2011

federici on occupy

here:

“This movement appears spontaneous but its spontaneity is quite organized, as it can be seen from the languages and practices it has adopted and the maturity it has shown in response to the brutal attacks by the authorities and the police. It reflects a new way of doing politics that has grown out of the crisis of the anti-globalization and antiwar movements of the last decade, one that emerges from the confluence between the feminist movement and the movement for the commons. By “movement for the commons” I refer to the struggles to create and defend anti-capitalist spaces and communities of solidarity and autonomy. For years now people have expressed the need for a politics that is not just antagonistic, and does not separate the personal from the political, but instead places the creation of more cooperative and egalitarian forms of reproducing human, social and economic relationships at the center of political work.”

25 November, 2011

cedric robinson, two events

Dear friends and colleagues,

It is with great pleasure that we announce two upcoming events with Cedric Robinson, Professor in the Department of Black Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Public Lecture
Staging Black Radicalism
Tuesday 29 November 6.00pm (please note the time change)
Queen Mary, University of London
Art Two Lecture Theatre
Mile End Campus - map available here, followed by a reception in the Senior Common Room

Speaking at Occupy LSX
Friday 2 December 5pm
St Paul’s occupation

Cedric Robinson is the author of Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership and Black Movements in America. He is also the author of numerous articles on US, African and Caribbean political thought; Western social theory, film and the press. His most recent work includesThe Anthropology of Marxism, a monograph study of the historical and discursive antecedents of Marxism, and research into anti-facism in Africa and the African Diaspora in the 1920s and 1930s.

Co-organised and sponsored by: Centre for Ethics and Politics (Queen Mary, University of London) Centre for Cultural Studies and the Department of Sociology (Goldsmiths, University of London)

24 November, 2011

cfp, new delhi

Conference ASA12 Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalising World, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 3rd - 6th April 2012
The deadline for the call for papers is: 7th December 2011. Website for online submission of paper proposals is: http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa12/index.shtml

Panel 23 Elite art in an age of populism: sowing monocultures?
Convenors: Julian Stallabrass (Courtauld Institute)  and Emilia Terracciano (Courtauld Institute of Art)

Short Abstract

We welcome papers exploring the fading of national and local traditions in a new global mega-culture built in part on social networking sites.

Long Abstract

Today, most artists would admit that globalisation has penetrated all sectors of society, including that of contemporary art. But with the advent of globalisation we have witnessed the patronisation of multicultural work, fit for the enjoyment of predominantly western viewers. Over the past two decades, there has been a growing debate on whether a ‘Biennale Aesthetic’ is leading to the production of ‘glossy’ work which slots easily into a novel consumerist orientalism. Are artists providing viewers both at home and abroad reassurance that the world is becoming more comfortably monocultural? Although in the West some of the most successful ‘boom’ art appealed to popular taste- Hirst, Koons, Murakami, Kapoor and Gupta being the major figures; others floated an art world reputation out of popular approbation, and this was especially true of Banksy and other street artists. Do we see here a reworking and intensification of a postmodern populism? And if so, does it pose a deeper threat to elite culture than previously? In an age when there are millions of cultural producers with a potentially global audience, how do the art world and the museum respond?

The panel welcomes papers which explore the fading of national and local dominance and traditions in art in the light of a new global mega-culture built in part on social networking sites.

http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa12/index.shtml

23 November, 2011

crmep seminar tomorrow

This is a reminder to please join us for the next CRMEP research seminar this Thursday, 24 November from 6-8 pm with:
Filippo Del Lucchese (Politics and History, Brunel University)
*NOTE* The title of the talk has been changed to: “When the Slaves Go Marching Out: Indignatio, Invisible Bodies and Political Theory.”
Venue: Kingston University, Penrhyn Road campus, John Galsworthy Building, Room JG 3004
Details of how to get to Penrhyn Road campus can be found on the Kingston University website: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/aboutkingstonuniversity/location/howtofindus/
Filippo Del Lucchese is Lecturer in the History of Political Thought at Brunel University. He is the author of Conflict, Law and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza: Tumults and Indignation (Continuum Press, 2009). He is currently working on a project on “Political Teratology: The Monster as a Political Concept in the Early Modern Period.”
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/politics/staff-profiles/filippo-del-lucchese

20 November, 2011

nathan!

Is right.

19 November, 2011

occupy petition and the right to protest

Sign the petition defending occupy: http://defendtherighttoprotest.org/defend-the-occupy-movement-no-to-eviction-at-st-pauls/780/

17 November, 2011

philadelphia: this

16 November, 2011

assault on universities dates

See here for details and read the book, it’s great.

15 November, 2011

music, politics, agency event tomorrow at uel

Dear Friends and Colleagues

The Centre for Cultural Studies Research is holding the first of four symposia on the theme of Music, Politics and Agency in the Digital Age this coming Wednesday, 16th November, 1-5pm in room AE1.01 at UEL’s Stratford Campus (http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/stratford.htm).

The theme of the symposium will be East London. Andrew Blake, Richard Bramwell (LSE)  and Derek Walmsley (The Wire) will be presenting papers. In addition, Steve Goodman (Hyperdub .Kode9) will appear in conversation with Jeremy Gilbert.

We very much hope to see you there…

14 November, 2011

crmep talk, 24 nov

Please join us for the next CRMEP research seminar on Thursday, 24 November from 6 - 8 pm:
“The Politics of Monstrosity”
Filippo Del Lucchese (Politics and History, Brunel University)
Venue: Kingston University, Penrhyn Road campus, John Galsworthy Building, Room JG 3004
Details of how to get to Penrhyn Road campus can be found on the Kingston University website: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/aboutkingstonuniversity/location/howtofindus/
Filippo Del Lucchese is Lecturer in the History of Political Thought at Brunel University. He is the author of Conflict, Law and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza: Tumults and Indignation (Continuum Press, 2009). He is currently working on a project on “Political Teratology: The Monster as a Political Concept in the Early Modern Period.”
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/politics/staff-profiles/filippo-del-lucchese