Read Marx’s “Capital” at Goldsmiths: everybody is welcome (unless your name is David Willetts)

Capitalism and Cultural Studies – Prof John Hutnyk: tuesday evenings from january 10, 2012 – 5pm-7pm Goldsmiths RHB 309 Free – all welcome. No fee (unless, sorry, you are doing this for award - and that, friends, is Willetts’ fault – though the Labour Party have a share of the blame too). ✪ This course involves a [...]

Kate Murdoch’s home trinkets. Collections and dust. No time like the archive. Get rid of them!

Keeping it together, in two parts (I’ve excerpted the first part and a bit of the second, but lost all the pics which you should see). This is from Artists Talking project blog. These ‘works’ and words seem to touch elegantly on the problems, and pleasures, of trinketization. We just don’t have the time to [...]

Robinson Nation

Writing to a comrade in Malaysia about film analysis: there are huge debates about how race is used by particular groups as a smokescreen for varieties of class politics and differential privilege via a colour coded economic hierarchy, with a number of different places. In this scenario a range of different kinds of ‘cultural’ product [...]

Today: 28 Nov 2011 CCS PhD seminar special session at 5pm by Joanna Hodge

Today: 28 Nov 2011 CCS PhD seminar  special session at 5pm by Professor Joanna Hodge: ‘Jean Luc Nancy’s excription: between excess and ecstasy’ – because of the occupation we are moving this session to the Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, in solidarity with the Goldsmiths Occupation that is, its in the occupied space. See http://occupygoldsmiths.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/monday-n28/

#goldsmirk

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003200589474 Goldsmiths Occupiers say: ‘We are an open heterogeneous group including Goldsmiths staff, students and many others who believe the university is a public resource that should be open to all. We stand with all those affected by the privatisation agenda and against those who profit from its misery. Goldsmiths is now occupied in solidarity with the [...]

Return to the Street 27-28 June 2012 CCS Goldsmiths.

See http://fuggbug.tumblr.com/post/14717201625/returntothestreet

Cedric Robinson 6pm 29.11.2011 @QMU – and 2.12.2011 10am @Goldsmiths

 

Why Cultural Studies in South London

(Note to self for Centre research blurb draft): Stitching between the local and the global in a way that is more than rhetorical, our projects find a geopolitical significance in a South London sensibility. This part of the world has always been global, since the Romans at least. We understand issues – colonial and Maritime history (Greenwich), [...]

Reading Capital 26.11.2011 @BofI

http://www.bankofideas.org.uk/events/event/reading-capitalism-with-john-hutnyk/

Number four million in an ongoing series about why NX is so great great we don’t even need to name it twice twice.

New Cross State of Mind by Transpontine New Cross is better than New York is an entertaining new blog by the people who make those ‘I Love New Cross’ bags they sell in the London Particular cafe. As they rightly point out: – They’ve got Macy’s, we’ve got TK Maxx; – They’ve got Studio54, we’ve got The [...]

Mutes

Increasingly David Speaks, but he still does not say anything. That both Beckham and kate Moss remain mute icons of British glamour, automatons - impossibly beautiful, sublime skills etc., – is the culture industry standard now, where voice, or personality, is inimical to brand. The X-factor, dancing, talk show compare (not J.Ross) celebrity must not have intellect [...]

Jodi Dean on What Now #ows

November 22, 2011 What now? #occupywallstreet Suggestions are appearing for the next phase of #OWS. On the one hand, this isn’t new. Suggestions and advice have accompanied the movement from its inception. On the other, with the eviction of protesters from Zuccotti Park, fierce police repression all over the country, and the holiday weekend coming [...]

New Taussig

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo11637787.html

N30 – http://www.n30actionmap.co.uk/

Echo-casting

Mike check    <mike check> . We are not going to stand still for this   <We are not going to stand still for this> . Capitalism is moribund, its crisis is permanent, <Capitalism is moribund, its crisis is permanent,>          <<Capitalism is moribund, its crisis is permanent,>> . We must kick [...]

Cedric Robinson Lecture at QMU 29.11.11

The Centre for Cultural Studies presents this event, with the Centre for Ethics and Politics at QMU:

Goldsmiths Meet on 23.11.11 to Build for 30 Nov General Strike.

Letter on the UC Davis mobilization

More on the UC Davis Pepper Spray Surprise posted here yesterday. This letter by ‘anonymous’ was sent from a discussion list [sent, not written, by GCS] and says it all: It has now been covered in the NY Times, USA Today, Time Magazine, CBS, CNN, and across the entire mediasphere.  The various UC Davis police assault videos have [...]

Study? Read this first.

Searching? read this first.

http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3344/2766 First Monday, Volume 16, Number 2 – 7 February 2011 Home > Volume 16, Number 2 – 7 February 2011 > Feuz Web search engines have become indispensable tools for finding information online effectively. As the range of information, context and users of Internet searches has grown, the relationship between the search query, search interest and user has become [...]