Monday Night Cinema Typhoon at Goldsmiths

Sonic Warfare

Steve Goodman’s book Sonic Warfare (2010) is full of interest and a vibrant new language for making sense of the sonic politics and affect – perhaps we should/must say attention – economies of contemporary capitalism. It also offers a useful note of prudence for those who too readily celebrate the sonic underground as opposition. ‘Global [...]

Text for Sokari

Sokari Douglas Camp I am honoured to introduce this collection by Sokari Douglas Camp. Sokari’s sculptural works – made in metal but moving fabric – are like an analytical textbook that deals with contemporary issues while also offering a passionate call to arms. The pieces that you can see in this brochure, but which must [...]

Keep Calm talk at Kent – 4:30.21.10.10

. Keep Calm and Carry On: Low Level Anxiety in World War Three London . – John Hutnyk . Video provocation – we will watch Sri Lankan Tamil rapper Mathangi Arulpragasam’s recent Romain Gavras-made video promo for her track ‘Born Free’ from the new album /\/\/\Y/\ – so as to discuss the way stereotypes that [...]

CCS PhD Seminar 2010-2011 (CCS only)

Centre for Cultural Studies PhD seminar 2010-2011 4 Oct – John Hutnyk – introductory and organizational discussion (no pre-reading) 11 Oct – John Hutnyk – Mussell: Three pages from “Social and Political Thought” Adorno: ‘What National Socialism Has Done to the Arts’ from “Essays on Music” Adorno ‘Critique’ – a 1969 radio address, From “Critical [...]

Lenin on Writing

I am against non-partisan writing, and, not altogether randomly, want to refer to Lenin to support this, where he writes: “Down with non-partisan writers. Down with literary supermen. Literature must become part of the common cause of the proletariat” (Lenin 1905 Party Organisation and Party Literature). In a way that long anticipates the post-structuralist interest in [...]

Marx on Writing

Marx, writing on the Paris Commune, singled out the writings of academic ‘gentlemen’: the working class can afford to smile at the course invective of the gentlemen’s gentlemen with the pen and inkhorn, and at the didactic patronage of well-wishing bourgeois-doctrinaires, pouring forth their ignorant platitudes and  sectarian crotchets in the oracular tone of scientific [...]

Mao on writing

In  1942 Mao Tse Tung addressed a Yenan meeting on the topic of ‘Stereotyped Party Writing’ and the role of writing within revolutionary activity. Developing an earlier essay on the Party’s style of work, he presented eight points of criticism against the boring eight part essays of ‘stereotyped party writers’ — using “poison as the [...]

JAZZA Festival 2010 @ the Scala

JAZZA Festival 2010 @ the Scala in Kings Cross, London on the 12th & 13th October. The event marks the official launch of the much anticipated Gilad Atzmon/Robert Wyatt/Ros Stephen’s new album ‘For the Ghost’s Within.’ (Domino Records) which is performed on both evenings by the Orient House Ensemble, the Sigimos Strings Quartet and the amazingCleveland Watkiss on vocals. [...]

Ahava

Join us this Saturday 25th of September as we continue to disturb Ahava’s unlawful business, which profits from the sale of stolen goods manufactured in an illegal settlement in the West Bank. Map: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=530080&y=181156&z=0&sv=WC2H+9DD&st=2&pc=WC2H+9DD&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf The fascist English Defence League and the zionist federation have promised to show their support for the state of israel, hence this call [...]

Working notes for a sci-fi novella (after accelerationism):

Working notes for a sci-fi novella (after accelerationism): Theme: The romanticism of those who would escape to a world without Skynet is Skynet’s greatest weapon. A boys-own fantasy for which foot-soldier anarcho-neo-cons are fully trained and computer literate, knowing the blue pill will bring on an Armageddon for which they have prepared all their lives, [...]

On Burning Books

Topical this week, but its always been true that the way the pages crumple one by one as they burn is strangely fascinating…. Via the link is a chapter length text I wrote some time ago (currently under consideration for Space and Culture). Given a certain newsworthiness in relation to the eye-popping-mad pastor Terry Jones, [...]

Dr Cristobal

Dr Cristobal Bianchi and his examiners (Irit Rogoff and Pavel Buchler). Congratulations.

Dragnets of London

Dragnets of London (for Raul). John Hutnyk I was on my way home on the number 436 to Lewisham recently when a woman did something I thought was both impressive and unusual – she spoke out against the delay caused by the 20 police who had boarded our bus. She scolded them for wasting her [...]

Bombing of Poems in Berlin