The Student Handjob

So here’s a publication that seems somewhat different to the usual glossy numbers offered to incoming students. And a very impressive set of articles too: Hard copies handed out at the Centre for Cultural Studies party on weds – electric version now live @ http://studenthandjob.wordpress.com/ -most Goldsmirths publication ever. The Student Handjob studenthandjob.wordpress.com so radical… [...]

International Symposium: “HUMANITIES AFTER FUKUSHIMA: Dialogues between Cultural Studies and Philosophy in the Post-Nuclear Age of Critical Junctures”

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2154622534 (click here to register) Friday, 28 October 2011 – Sunday, 30 October 2011 Venue: School of Arts, Birkbeck College, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London;  Birkbeck Collage, Main Building, Malet Street, London Financial Help from the Japan Foundation International Exchange Fund   Organized by Ted Motohashi (Visiting Professor at Media and Cultural Studies Department, Birkbeck [...]

Sabot not quite sabot – weekender version…

This, I presume, is for those who can’t find a spanner. But I noted the bees. ‘This settlement is long gone in Britain, used only as a bargaining chip or blackmail within industrial relations disputes. As our conditions of labour as cognitive workers have changed, morphed from the design studio to the atomised precarious freelancer, the [...]

Free Education

The Centre for Cultual Studies at Goldsmiths University of London 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 [...]

Zoogenesis

Do check out Richard Iveson’s blog if you are interested in Animal Studies, Derrida, Foucault… expect stuff later on Deleuze, Stiegler, Kafka, Burroughs etc: http://zoogenesis.wordpress.com/

Popular Music and Human Rights

Pantomime Terror in print (see downloads page for the pdf). This is the flyer for the set: Popular Music and Human Rights 2-vol set

New Term – just like the old term in the neoliberal university – Red Mole 1970 – flashback with this archival gem.

click here to get the full PDF: redmole1970 click here to get the full PDF: redmole1970

Millibrand’s labour opportunism is not worth the paper its paraphrased from.

Re Millibrand’s Tuition Fee ‘pledge’ – if this below from ‘Research Fortnight’ is true, why stop at a 6K cap? Surely 0.35% can be extended to 0.70% or more? 1.35% would surely fix it all? Need to reread the entire article, but the key trick is here: ‘So let’s imagine an ambush by a political [...]

Guardian – corruption, diamonds, Hazare… tigers… toxic… : ‘Rio Tinto, which is investing £292m on what it calls the Bunder project, vehemently denies that the mine has anything to do with Masood’s murder’

Shehla Masood battled corruption in India. Was that why she was killed? The shooting of a prominent activist was ‘unfortunate’, says a minister. But her friends suspect that she knew too much to live Gethin Chamberlain guardian.co.uk, Saturday 24 September 2011 20.27 BST A family photograph of Shehla Masood, who was campaigning against plans to [...]

We are all Troy Davis (well, hardly, but its a fucking outrage that the USA executed over a thousand people since 1975, and then some)

A cartoon made for Troy Davis by the activist known cartoonist Carlos Latuff by: We Are All Troy Davis Since I have been writing about this in relation to MIA, maybe its worth noting for the record, that the cited (is this only ‘citation’?) image cartooned here appeared in its original gross form in several films, including [...]

Neil tours us round Deptford.

Why thanks Neil: http://transpont.blogspot.com/2011/09/convoys-wharf-latest.html Transpontine: South East London blogzine – things that are happening, things that happened, things that should never have happened. New Cross, Brockley, Deptford and other beauty spots. EMAIL US: transpontine@btinternet.com Transpontine: ‘on the other (i.e. the south) side of the bridges over the Thames; pertaining to or like the lurid melodrama [...]

#Facebook #Gmail adblockers and the new FB status ticker removal

Reposted all this here cos who knows how long the post will stay onb my FB page (if they even bother to set the algorithm to watch):   And remove ads from Facebook: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nmnffjglpcfckgcdlagjiajhahgnlbcd?hc=search&hcp=main Remove Facebook Elements – Chrome Web Store chrome.google.com Removes annoying elements from Facebook. while we are at it – remove ads from gmail too: [...]

welcome to the administration – learn to like it circa 1989

Mister Pip and volunteers build a Library

Postcourier, 15 Sept 11 Arawa to get new library BOUGAINVILLE’S estranged capital, Arawa, should have a big library built by end of the year, the Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) has announced. The Bougainville Library project is about to take another step forward when VSA volunteer Barry Binding leaves Wellington on September 20 to spend six [...]

The blacklisting of Rio Tinto – NAJ Taylor

The blacklisting of Rio Tinto Too many invest in companies – such as Australia’s Rio Tinto – without any consideration of the ethics of doing so. NAJ Taylor Last Modified: 12 Sep 2011 12:24     Papuans protest against Freeport and Rio Tinto’s Grasberg mine outside of Freeport’s office in Jakarta [EPA] [This is the first [...]

DJ Lenin in the House.

- image from Chaos Camp 11 @ Podopolog.

September 11 – Happy birthday Teddy. W. Great Pachyderm.

For a proposed preface to a new edition of Dialectic of Enlightenment, Adorno writes a letter to Horkheimer, and says: ‘One experience has not been anticipated in the book, although it is hinted at in other texts of ours: at least our young people have set out to resist the transition to the totally administered [...]

Protesters confront battleships en route to world’s largest arms fair

10.09.2011 10:49 For immediate release: Protesters confront battleships en route to world’s largest arms fair HMS Dauntless is Daunted Today, warships en route to the world’s largest arms fair were disrupted by protesters angry at a trade that inflicts untold misery and death across the planet. Protesters, including locals, manoeuvred six kayaks in front of [...]

Wikileaks on Bougainville.

From UTS: Dear Bougainville Supporters, Below are the links from Wikileaks to confidential documents about the Bougainville Class Action – Sarei vs Rio Tinto. FOREIGN POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF SAREI VS. RIO TINTO http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2006/09/06PORTMORESBY401.html SAREI VS. RIO TINTO http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2006/08/06PORTMORESBY319.html Contents page http://www.wikileaks.org/origin/71_0.html

Meze Mangal

Not sure how I feel about mass exposure of this (since its the best food in the borough) but, via Transpontine, here it is: Eray and Koray - self-styled ‘Cypriot Eminem and Dr Dre’ have a great new track out celebrating the delights of Meze Mangal, the Turkish restaurant in New Cross. Filmed on location in [...]