UfSO 2

also see Lecture one http://wp.me/pcKI3-Mn

Clandestino Next (2011 dates)

Very Clandestine! Here is all that has been made public so far for this year. It is time to announce the dates of the 9th annual Clandestino Festival as taking place the 10-12th of June 2011. We are currently working hard to create an equally, if not more, amazing festival than last year’s. We also [...]

Monday 6.12.10 Goldsmiths Polly Puts the kettle on, we’ll all have tea. Suzie…

Lewisham Town Hall

Anti-Cuts demo earlier tonight. See here for the arguments (cops in the pic were in a quiet moment, but these are the violent ones – as quite a few of them totally lost their cool).

Sausage Factory

An old piece on education’ themes: http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/university-out-of-focus/ and a classic quote from a note on ‘Jamie O’ here: ‘a schoolmaster is a productive labourer when, in addition to belabouring the heads of his pupils, he works himself into the ground to enrich the owner of the school. That the latter has laid out his capital in [...]

Ben Watson applauds Edgard Varèse

Ben Watson is pretty much on the money here when he writes (in an antidote to most of the half-digested theory and rad-posturing drivel written about war and music of late): Edgard Varèse brought the noise of sirens and bombs into music in the 1920s, a response to the terrors of World War I. His Hyperprism [...]

Goldsmiths: Racism and Islamophobia Meeting 1.12.2010

Racism and Islamophobia is growing across Europe including Britain-in this time of cuts and austerity finding scapegoats is no surprise-see quote from Ken Livingstone below. University staff and Students are playing a leading role in the growing anti-cuts movement and now is also the time to come to hear from and discuss with prominent activists [...]

MEDIA TRAINING WORKSHOP 4.12.10

MEDIA TRAINING WORKSHOP Workshop lead by Shiv Malik DECEMBER 4th (Saturday) GOLDSMITHS, Main Building (RHB) Room 142 1.00 – 4.00pm Workshop on how to deal with the media, staying on message, avoiding traps, blogging and more. Journalist and co-author of Jilted Generation: How Britain has Bankrupted its Youth, Shiv Malik has worked with Climate Camp [...]

Banking 101 USO today!

http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/video/xfrf85?width=&theme=none&foreground=%23F7FFFD&highlight=%23FFC300&background=%23171D1B&start=&animatedTitle=&iframe=0&additionalInfos=0&autoPlay=0&hideInfos=0 University of Strategic Optimism Uploaded by GraveRiddle. – News videos from around the world. Flash Bank: Inaugural lecture from the University of Strategic Optimism, held in Lloyds TSB, London Bridge on 24/11/2010 See lecture two here and Visit the University for Strategic Optimism for syllabus and application form (no actual form, just make up [...]

Fundraiser For Palestine 9 Dec 2010

HUMAN RIGHTS LEGAL AID FUND – FUNDRAISER FOR PALESTINE We invite you to join us in support of an unprecedented legal aid fund for Palestine, inspired by the successes of a similar fund during the South African anti-apartheid movement. Thursday 9 December 2010 Doors open 7:30pm with Michael Mansfield QC (patron) Mark Thomas (comedian/ activist) [...]

DayX

its not just fees and its certainly not just London. Its not just national either… all power to the soviets (can’t be that far away, eh? Not that I would know, missing it witha sick E., but if there is to be the winter miracle of a November Revolution we will just have to wrap [...]

You can Bank on it I reckon! I know who I’d trust with the money – more details tomorrow evening. Do stay tuned in, turned on and Walk Out…

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Mumia Abu Jamal

US.: New danger to the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal 22 November 2010. A World to Win News Service. Following is an edited excerpt from an article by C. Clark Kissinger that appeared in the 21 November 2010 issue of Revolution, newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. The largest courtroom of the federal Third Circuit [...]

trinketization again (book note)

What we mean by trinketization is also an injunction: to contextualize objects and memes in social and global political significance and ramification; to theorize and interpret critically and endlessly, as if it mattered. No to mere taxonomy that substitutes for thinking; no to genealogies of already codified and congealed proper names; no to the rictus grin of erudite but [...]

CCS @ Clandestino Festival 9

Wanted: funding to document the Institute that does not exist/has already existed for almost ten years – Clandestino (notes for a funding proposal): -       the research output is the Clandestino Institute itself, an ‘underground’ University of Sonic and Border Arts, a University that has no permanent presence, but can be understood in terms of documentation [...]

Walkabout!

As academics we write to support the national walkout and day of protest against tuition fees planned for 24th November, following the magnificent demonstration by university and school students and by university staff on November 10th. We are utterly opposed to the destruction of broad-based, critical education and its replacement by education for the market [...]

Notebook – questions…

Questions for Bonnie: – are the cuts proposed by the Con Dem dalliance as incoherent as some have said? Or are they the rabid response of an ill-cooked coalition of opportunist troglodytes? – Or, rather,  is this a specific move/set of moves on the part of neo-liberal capital (structural adjustment programmes for all!)? – are the [...]

Josh Cohen ‘What Possesses You: Reading After Freud’ – Tuesday 23 November 2010

Inaugural Lecture – ‘What Possesses You: Reading After Freud’ Professor Josh Cohen, Professor of Modern Literary Theory will deliver his inaugural lecture ‘What Possesses You: Reading After Freud’  The lecture will be followed by a reception (at about 6.30pm) in the Staff Dining Room, RHB. The lectures are free and un-ticketed but those wishing to [...]

The Politics of Pain – UEL

UEL Centre for Cultural Studies Research presents The Politics of Pain 8 December 2010, 15:00 to 17:00 Pain has become one of the central discourses of the coalition government as it embarks on its cuts programme. The cuts are inevitable, we are told, and the pain must be shared in the interests of fairness. But is [...]

“Cultural Studies and Capitalism” Goldsmiths Lecture course Spring 2011 – Centre for Cultural Studies.

Lecture course Spring 2011 – Centre for Cultural Studies. CU71012A “Cultural Studies and Capitalism” Lecturer: Professor John Hutnyk (tuesdays 4pm-7pm – [lecture/seminar]). 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 [...]