What is Trinketization

For an explanation of Trinketization – never fully codified as yet – you might start with the following old posts: Mind Boggling Before the Letter Jesus Trinkets Plastic Stuff Kane’s Snowglobe Kuffiya Spotting Third World Tourism Communist Tat Vignettes And this picture is a trinket gesture itself – you should read Paul Hendrich’s piece on [...]

fragment on machines

A note to keep for later: our argument evaluates the idea that machines for generating meaning can be examined as rendering text or as points of access to a world beyond or before rendering. Placing a hand on the cave wall at Lascaux before spittting/spraying paint to make a silloette is a machine; the hair line qusdrant grid of [...]

Ten Years of the Centre for Cultural Studies

Today I was asked for a summary of things happening in CCS over the past year or so (our tenth year). Here are the highlights as I see them (please add anything I’ve missed, or links I did not have handy): As part of our tenth year, Goldsmiths CCS: – bombed Warsaw with poems – [...]

Border Documents

In “Sonic Border” (London Nov 2008) we explored the way sound crosses the border differently, provoking a rethink of the border’s location – not just in ports, and the authoritarian boot boys of the nation state, but between us all, in conversations, in ideas – an oppressive structure of language, meaning, representation, and in the [...]

Craftivist – Papered Parlour Event: 19 Sept 2009 COME ACROSS STITCH – Hannah Hull

Since one of my walls at home is adorned by work of this particular (and fab) artist, and that the venue – The Papered Parlour is very very cool, I of course think this is of interest and am happy to endorse: COME ACROSS STITCH Hannah Hull Saturday 19 Sept 2009, 11am – dusk The [...]

Godard “British Sounds” pt 1

You can find Jean-Luc Godard’s “British Sounds” in all its glory on You Tube now. It is worth watching all the way through (6 parts) – from the ‘petroleum of pop music’ and excerpts from the great Shiela Rowbothom to the “gestapo of the humanist university” (they mean LSE). ‘No end to class struggle’ in [...]

Recycled: notes for Satanic Majesties Request paper

Recycled post: notes for Satanic Majesties Request paper October 23, 2006 ‘wa-what can a white boy do, but to sing for a rock and roll band?’ S. S. Sisodia, in Salman Rushdie’s politically incorrect Satanic Verses, stammers: “The trouble with the Engenglish is that their hiss hiss history happened overseas, so they don’t know what [...]

Bombing of Poems in Warsaw

A fantastic success and really an event. Congratulations to Casagrande and Cristobal. Almost all the pictures I took have people looking skyward as the poems fell from the helicopter, a slight breeze playing havoc with estimates as to where things might land, and then as the poem cards come within reach, its very comic to [...]

Riotinto deserves the pain

I’ve posted several times before on the many crimes of Riotinto – bunkered down in their London headquarters (formerly 6 St James Square, now 2 Eastbourne Terrace), they plunder the world with near impunity, though Partizans, Minewatch and this bunch of activist-lawyers (below) are keen to dent their stock. Oh, and the Chinese deal went [...]