Arts Against Cuts: ica x-mas presents

Erm, last post of the year is not a happy one, rather fucking outrageous – I used to like the little ICA bookshop… By artsauthors December 23, 2011 // With x-mas just around the corner and all the gifts wrapped under that perfectly decorated pine tree. As the anticipation builds, interrupting the final two nights sleep [...]

#occupy Dataran: Mask up for Malaysian New Year

  This just popped up on you tube and I’d like a ticket. If you have a mask, and you are in KL, this is the new year party to ring in something special. (Londoners, see you at Holloway) I do, like many of you, enjoy lepakking at home and watching TV. I appreciate the [...]

Marx at the Movies Conference 16&17 March 2012

I’m speaking at this… Marx at the Movies Conference University of Central Lancashire March 16-17, 2012 As the Lehmans Brothers filled for bankruptcy on September 15 2008 an era came to a halt. No more was there a belief that ‘the Market’ would work for the greater good as long as it was left un-regulated. [...]

The Border at Night

A vicious wound that demeans us all –  Enis alerts me to this image from the film Abendland (see the trailer here) – its the aptly named Frontex border at Ceuta, Spain (between the EU and Morocco)

Gathering the old word horde together, on education

Am supposed to be writing about Education, but I have that de-ja-voodoo feeling for the good old days: This a citation of a lost piece that was called ‘ What is to be done about Arizona Junkets’ on delegates who go to education conferences – from Richard Bates ‘Educational research and the economy of happiness and [...]

cfp Return to the Street

http://fuggbug.tumblr.com/post/14717201625/returntothestreet   return to the street – cfp 27-28 June 2012 Goldsmiths, University of London A two day conference exploring the shifting role of the street as discourse and real physical space in the context of contemporary culture and politics. Identity formation and public debate do not simply occur online or through new media technologies. [...]

NEW YEARS EVE NOISE DEMONSTRATION – SOLIDARITY WITH IMPRISONED PROTESTERS

Saturday, 31 December 2011 - 4pm-6pm outside HMP Holloway Prison, Parkhurst Road, N7 0NU, closest tube station Holloway Rd. Since student protests last year, when thousands took to the streets to demand an education accessible for all, and the large scale riots this summer in response to the police murder of Mark Duggan, hundreds of our [...]

Happy 128th Birthday Edgard Varèse

Happy 128th Birthday Edgard Varèse @ 

Voodoo Lounge Tour (Volkswagen sponsorship poster)

I needed to refer to this for a footnote reference…

Rough justifications [Marx Course reading]

 Rough justifications for including these texts in my prelim reading for the Capital course (see here). Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry Adorno is famous for his dictum, “No Art after Auschwitz”, but it’s not necessarily something that he said in his own voice, it’s really important to see that he was putting this forward as a [...]

WorkersControl.net

http://www.workerscontrol.net/our-mission-statement  

Market project Talk transcribed

The folk at Market Project incredibly transcribed what I had to say at their gig in November at Colchester. Much obliged to them. This was after Alex Pearl‘s project Pussycat film (which recommends a final solution for artists), and debate contributions from others that you can also here and here. Mine in full follows. The discussion still [...]

White Charity

Critique of photogenic poverty catching on – check out this film from Germany: http://www.whitecharity.de/index_files/Page518.htm White Charity Blackness & whiteness on charity ad posters Billboards of charitable organisations such as ‘Brot für die Welt’, ‘Welthungerhilfe’, ‘Kindernothilfe’ or ‘Care’ are omnipresent in streets, on squares, in train and metro stations in Germany. They have a large impact [...]

Capitalism or Markets?: An Exchange 9.1.2012

Bernard Stiegler and Scott Lash Monday 9 January 2012, 5pm-6.45pm, Cinema, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths What is critical political economy today? Has neo-liberalism produced a system of domination in which capital has reduced labour not just to an object but to what Heidegger called a ‘standing reserve’,: that is a Marxist ‘reserve army of labour’ [...]

Fragrancy

 Wanna eat at this restaurant tonight!

Beyond Borders.

Possible blurb for the book on borders (edited volume, nearly done, press details soon) Beyond Borders – ed, John Hutnyk This collection of essays, graphics and theatre displaces our understandings of borders so that we cannot look the same way at that which invades our everyday, that which kills and excludes, that which sounds out [...]

Sophie Fuggle’s Review of Vattimo and Zabala’s “Hermeneutic Communism”

Review by Sophie Fuggle – click the title to go to the page and see the book cover and Mdm Mim cartoon. Review of Hermeneutic Communism by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala (Columbia University Press, 2011) At the end of In Defence of Lost Causes, Žižek calls for a return to the egalitarian terror of the Stalinist regime as [...]

Citizens: On Marx and Kane (talk abstract for 16.3.2012)

This is the abstract, or at least the opening move, of what I wil say at the “Marx at the Movies” conference at Uni of Central Lancashire in March. Citizens: On Marx and Kane. In reading Capital, if anything about beginnings should be considered necessary, it might be good just to start with what is immediately [...]

Pantomime Terror Lecture 30.9.2008

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmoidd_pantomime-terror_news This, here, for the gnawing criticism of the mice, is my inaugural Professorial lecture at Goldsmiths September 30 2008. Details: presented by Professor John Hutnyk of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths. Title: ‘Pantomime Terror: the paranoid commuter and the danger of music’. Introduced by Professor Geoffrey Crossick. Please note there is a [...]