Russell Brand nazi boy

OK, it got rapidly silly but no-one should be surprised that the Russell Brand Jonathan Ross said-fucking-on-the-radio absolute pap story was manufactured to distract us. Distract us from the front page news obsession with ‘the’ crisis – which, I am so sorry to say, is not the end of the world everyone thinks – and [...]

Free Lex Wotton – Australian Injustice (International Actions)

Free Lex Wotton: Aboriginal Political Prisoner International Day of Solidarity London Rally 12 noon Thursday November 6th Australia House, Strand, WC2B 4LA On October 24th an all white jury found Lex Wotton, an Aboriginal man from Palm Island, guilty of ‘rioting with destruction’ for his involvement in the 2004 Palm Island uprising. On November 26th [...]

Rosie Roh

For Roh – at the top of Penton Rise.

Sonic Border/ Sonic Diaspora/Beyond Text

Please Go <here> for the more detailed (in process) Beyond Borders archive for this Project. There are a number of posts that lead up to the event described below, and a number of posts related to its aftermath, and details of the upcoming events in Berlin in April and Copenhagen in November will be posted [...]

Thomas for Prez in 08

Thomas Altheimer would love to see friends and enemies for a screening of his 52 mins film Europe For President at Alma Enterprises’ project space on November 4th in Glasshill Street, SE1 (no street number, signs in the small street will lead you to the venue). Altheimer will open the event at 7 pm with [...]

Goldsmiths UCU/NUS Teach-in on the market

Goldsmiths UCU/NUS Teach-in on the market Wednesday 29 October 08 WHY IS EVERYTHING FOR SALE? 1-2.30pm MRB Screen 2 Why a Likeness Cannot be Bought – Les Back (Sociology) Foreign policy for sale – Bart Moore-Gilbert (English) A history of debt: slavery in the broadest sense of the word? – David Graeber (Anthropology) 1-2.30pm MRB [...]

FORCE OF METADATA Stiegler et al Nov 29 2008

An event organized by MRC & CCS: FORCE OF METADATA Symposium, Saturday, November 29th 2008, 9.30 am – 18.30 pm Goldsmiths Media Research Centre and Centre for Cultural Studies, London Speakers: Bernard Stiegler (Centre Pompidou, Paris): The Alternative of Metadata: Automated Voluntary Servitude or Economy of Contribution Götz Bachmann (Goldsmiths): The Power of Metadata Time [...]

Sonic Borderlands

The first “Laboratory” of the Centre for Cultural Studies Beyond Text project will be on “Sonic Borderlands” and will be held 3-8 November 2008 (at Goldsmiths College all through ‘reading week’  and on the saturday at Coventry Cathedral in conjunction with Nirmal Puwar’s *Noise and War* event with Nitin Sawhney).  Workshops at Goldsmiths will include [...]

Lookout, he’s Behind you.

He’s behind you – we are all terrorists when we nod in approval at the belated contrition of MI5 acknowledging no specific terrorist, but generalized terror. He’s behind you – we are all terrorists when, listening to the security announcements to leave no bag untended we accept that some higher authority is watching out for [...]

More from Tuesday

There have been bits of the Panto talk on here before. The Aki as Suicide Rapper routine was rehearsed here, while Žižek on the buses is glossed here (for the next Stimulus Respond). So its a little cut and paste getting towards a finalized version (not even close to complete – having just found Raymond [...]

Trinketization before the letter (vignettes) …. [one more time]

REDUX TWO: (another bit brought forward – from here). [random detritus - This was excised from an early draft of 'Jungle Studies', in 1995. I'm sure you can see why]: It is probably important not to allow the vignette to replace analysis, the two are tied together, but we don’t want the story to provide [...]

Mind Boggling Trinketization [again]

REDUX: Since several people have asked, here is one of the posts that explain the name of this blog. Its from a year and a half ago. [comments imported too] Very occasionally (why? [indeed, see above - ed]) I feel the need to restate why it is that I use the word trinketization to refer [...]

Panto Theory

Panto #1: Roshan Seth’s dress ups is my flimsy excuse that allows me to talk about the theatre – tangentially – and in particular Pantomime. I am interested in Pantomime because of its storytelling facility, because it is – very often – the contemporary home of the 1001 Nights, and all the Orientalism that adaptations [...]

Roshan Seth

Once Upon a Long Ago, Far Away a Time… Roshan Seth <pic 1> was in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), a Stephen Frears film from a Hanif Kureishi screenplay. Kureshi, a *force* in British theatre and film, once said of The 1001 Nights – a book I will speak more of later – that it was [...]