Marx Trot 2012 – July 7

Notice. The date has just been announced – The Marx Trot this year will be on July 7. Hurrah! Leaving from Highgate Cemetery Marx’s Grave about 3pm – heading across the Heath to the old man’s local on Grafton Terrace – and onwards to Engels’ house, then to the pub – now crappy cocktail bar [...]

Palestine Place London

Go to this. http://palestineplace.wordpress.com/  

Fuck the Jubilee

The jubilee, recessionary Britain, and and Johnny Rotten staging controversy in the newspaper again, it may all seem a bit like old money for ropey old jingles, but look – at least the advertising for the event in New Cross on Sunday is up! So I will be heading along to the New Cross for [...]

New MA at Goldsmiths in Black British Writing

Click here to see more: http://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-black-british-writing/  

Research Trends

Pretty interesting trends identified in stats from the ESRC on what topics our best and brightest choose to write their PhDs (we will need an algorithm correcting for nerdiness of course). Seems there has been a big drop in these areas: a number of disciplines fell below the target to a greater or lesser extent. These disciplines [...]

Taking Up Space MA Cultural Studies at CCS conf

website HERE: http://takingupspace2012.blogspot.co.uk/ Programme page http://takingupspace2012.blogspot.com/2012/05/programme.html

Against Blind Faith in Learning

Mao on Professors in 1958 (22 March) talks at Chengtu (p116-7 Talks and letters):  … of entering into the spirit of it, or really understanding it’ (p117).   best bit: … ‘Naturally, we cannot go out tomorrow and beat them up … we have to make friends with them’  

Bangin’ on the walls

Commented to a friend: Faced with the dubious, bogus, offensive statements of Cameron and Theresa May on immigration yet again, can we insist that even left and activist types, learned professors many of then, not automatically use political asylum as a defence, when all migrants, including so-called opportunist economic and ‘poor’, should be free to move. If [...]

The B-Movie Mind Tricks of David Cameron

What kind of psychosis must it be? David Cameron was already a jittery jumped up bugaboo before he squeaked into power with his austerity for Britain plans carefully wrapped in a not very well disguised Big Society cloak of invisibility. Then the students surrounded Tory Party Headquarters, inundated the roof, and the Police line stood an watched – beset [...]

Georges Bataille

‘against forces that cannot be assimilated, the state cuts matters short with strict authority’ (Bataille 1933/1997:124)

Terror as Usual – in your face.

This was a strangely relevant welcome to the ’Terror as usual’ workshop held at Birkbeck – a huge on topic poster in the foyer. pic.twitter.com/SdVeM1kN (thanks Shaku, Jodi, Saleh, Judy, Chris, Rachel, and others for turning out).  Can anyone name this piece of State Terror kit shown in the poster? – it really dominates the room – bet [...]

The Indigenous Commons 5pm 26.6.2012

EVENT: The Indigenous Commons 26th June // 5pm // RHB 251 // Goldsmiths, University of London Dr. Stephen Turner (University of Auckland)  In association with Centre for Cultural Studies and Centre for Postcolonial Studies   No registration necessary, Drinks to follow   The Indigenous Commons of Aoteroa New Zealand In the context of the worldwide Occupy [...]

Naming rights for the General Intellect

Facebook voting questionnaires are just (for) tools, but I could not resist this one. Won’t they have a surprise when they wake up in the morning to smell the coffee.

Advices for response.

I am honoured you’ve asked me to comment, but really, it is up to you to work out your own style for public engagement – polemic, polote, polite but sly, ruthless criticism of everything that exists, and any other number of performative routines. Whatever the case, late night advice may need a spoonful of salt if you really [...]

Mercedes Bunz: 30 May 2012 5pm

CCS presents: Mercedes Bunz: Designing Politics – On Social Media as Political Apparatuses May 30, 5-7PM, Goldsmiths, RHB, Cinema All welcome Thinking about the political potential of media: Taking the Arab spring, we have seen that social media has been a good tool to find a date for the revolte, but it obviously wasn’t a good tool [...]

Been thinking about trinkets in songs.

Been thinking about trinkets in songs.  I present two stellar examples, complete with youtube links. ‘In a small far room the bed is set With trinkets all surrounding Yet alone it rests, so dry it sets With souls aside abiding’ Palace Music, ‘We All, Us Three, Will Ride’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkvctVZcO4E ‘I crept into a box of [...]

Olympiss Trinkisss

including a snowglobe to freeze the heart of Walter Benjamin: thanks Sophie-trinkspotter

“We didn’t know it was impossible, so we did it!” The Quebec Student Strike celebrates its 100th day

http://occupytheory.org/read/we-didn-t-know-it-was-impossible-so-we-did-it-the-quebec-student-strike-celebrates-its-100th-day.html Malav Kanuga Origins of an unlimited general strike (“grève générale illimitée”) Students in Quebec are marking their 100th day of an unlimited general strike on Tuesday, May 22nd, the culmination of the most stunning mass protest movements of recent months and North America’s largest student movement in years. In fact, the mobilizations in Quebec [...]

cfp: On the Life and Afterlife of the Popular, Lisbon 3/4.12.2012

Montreal feeds

http://cutvmontreal.ca/ http://www.livestream.com/cutvmontreal and twitter http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23manifencours And mainstream headlines discussed: http://translatingtheprintempserable.tumblr.com/ (thanks Nirmala)