Deptford & New Cross Virtual Social Centre. Film Night. Housing. 17.5.2012 7.30PM

Hi, Just a reminder about tomorrow’s film night: Subject: New Social Centre / Film night starts May17th at NX Library Deptford & New Cross Virtual Social Centre present Films to change the world with: Housing Films about ordinary people’s direct solutions to housing crises -  from rent strikes to squatting @ New Cross People’s Library [...]

May Day London 2012

MAYDAY-FLYER-A5-2012 May Day has been celebrated in London since the 1880s. The Committee has ensured this key day of international solidarity is marked every May 1st. Despite often being ignored by the mass media, the celebrations have maintained the traditions of unity and solidarity in London. The London May Day has been a unique bringing [...]

Clandestino X – Gothenburg, Sweden

No Borders Convergence

also here

No Olympics

this one was made by the Nomadic Action Group for the campaign against having the olympics in Melbourne in 1988 To which (via Simon S) we can now add some London related resources: Anarchist alternative art for the Olympics…. http://anarchistmedia.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/the-lympic-games-olympics-2012/ Report backs on a ‘Countering Olympics’ conference held recently…. http://counterolympics.com/ I guess Occupy Olympics was [...]

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 [...]

Shopping Žižek – a commentary on a commentary (an addendum to ✪ 11 more notes 12&3 on #LondonRiots etc)

Slavoj Žižek’s commentary on the #LondonRiots indented, with my intemperate interjections interspersed in smaller italics (not indented). i – i – i – i. What I have done is copied the entire text from his LRB article (available free) and entered that here, in original order, nothing excised, so I could then add my own commentary, in italics, between [...]

UfSO

a posh hypocrite takes time out from selling guns to murderous dictators in order to encourage popular uprisings against a vicious and corrupt elite, clinging to power without democratic legitimacy… well, you heard him!

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 [...]

Bombing of Poems in Berlin

programme – Hybridity Lyon Oct 7-8, 2010

Giving a talk at the end of this in Lyon (scroll to the end of the programme link to find it – last session friday): via programme – Hybridity. http://hybridity.ens-lyon.fr/?lang=fr

WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER: AGAINST THE POINTS-BASED VISA SYSTEM IN UNIVERSITIES

Goldsmiths UCU and Goldsmiths Students Union Open Meeting The new ‘points based’ new immigration rules represent a serious threat to campus democracy and freedom of speech. They require non-EU students and staff to have biometric ID cards, involve checks on the financial background of applicants and mean that staff are obliged to report students to [...]

Bombing of Poems in Warsaw

A fantastic success and really an event. Congratulations to Casagrande and Cristobal. Almost all the pictures I took have people looking skyward as the poems fell from the helicopter, a slight breeze playing havoc with estimates as to where things might land, and then as the poem cards come within reach, its very comic to [...]

Sonic Border Program again

Sonic Border/ Sonic Diaspora/Beyond Text Host: Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths Monday, 3 November – Rooms 137a and 138 2:30 -3:00 pm Chair: John Hutnyk Julian Henriques ‘ Thinking Through Sound’ 3:00 – 4:00 pm David Graeber. ‘Prisoners of Sound’ 4:00 – 4:20 pm – Coffee and tea break. 4:20-6:30 pm Johannes Anyuru and [...]

Sonic Border on the anniversary of Laika

Sonic Borders begins today at Goldsmiths (draft program here) – can’t sleep because its also the 51st anniversary of the space dog’s lonely death. Also, more favourably as an augur, its the 91st anniversary of the October Revolution – in November. So I should post something about dates and repetition… Instead, typing up some notes [...]

AtHQ Round 2

With the second part of Attack the Headquarters coming up this Tue 27th (2-6pm, RHB 150, as before), would it be worth asking if there is anything in particular that participants would like to see happen differently from the first day – in particular in terms of the collective discussions? The provocateurs lined up will [...]

Critique of Violence, Goldsmiths 19 May 2008

19th May 2008 The Centre for Cultural Studies Presents a symposium on Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’. Four great speakers (30 mins each) and our venue are now confirmed. This will happen on the afternoon of 19th May 2008 – 2pm – 6pm. Venue: RHB Cinema – chair: John Hutnyk 2pm Elina Staikou “Force of [...]

Fair warning for Canadians

May 6 2008 Concordia’s Department of Communication Studies presents: John Hutnyk, Academic Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London Pantomime Terror: UK Hip Hop at War (or Paranoia in London: ‘Lookout, he’s behind you!’) When: Tuesday, May 6, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Where: Room LB 646, McConnell Library Building, [...]