New MA at Goldsmiths in Black British Writing

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

New Cross Review of Books

About NXRB Book Reviews from the Big Crabapple that is NX, London. This is a haphazard collection of reviews old and new. Of course we are not competing with any of the other fine book review rags out there from other towns like New York or London, it’s just that… We will accept contributions where they [...]

Three events for CCS – Write Now – Deleuze – No Borders.

Three near overlapping events in thee next 10 days for Centre for Cultural Studies people at Goldsmiths: . Write Now! BER-CPH-LON PhD Symposium (Feb 9-11 2012) You have to, you want to, you need to Write Now! But how do you publish?  In an atmosphere of loneliness, alienation, rejection, competition, anxiety, hierarchy, nepotism and jealousy, how does the “early career [...]

Taussig 27.1.12

Michael Taussig 27.1.2012

Excelente Zona Social Anthropologist Michael Taussig talks about the relationship between writing, culture and time. “I began began doing fieldwork in 1969. I have returned every year” says Mick Taussig. His writing has spanned a wide range of issues ranging from the commercialization of peasant agriculture to a study of exciting substance loaded with seduction [...]

Marx Writing Notes

Two quotes from Theories of Surplus Value Vol 1. ‘a writer is a productive laborer not insofar as he produces ideas, but insofar as he enriches the book-seller who publishes his work, or insofar as he is a wage-labourer of a capitalist entrepreneur’

Cut Flesh from the Bone – big publishing profits

This article is one in an issue becoming quite the popular. Having published a commissioned (unpaid) article with Elsevier – it was called ‘Jungle Studies’, and after proofreading they replaced the phrase ‘For fuck’s sake’ with ‘For God’s sake’ – I know, there are several levels of gah! – I am keen to point out that [...]

The piece-rate Worker

Turning our lives into sausage factory grunt work and mere value extraction. This is all too common. Before electronic rights became a standard in publishing contracts I used to scratch out that part (eg for my Calcutta book, and for ‘Dis-Orienting Rhythms’ – only the latter is online for free – see sidebar to download [...]

Critique of Everything

The fine folk at the Finnish Anthropology Society asked me to respond to Jason Toynbee’s piece ‘The Critical Accomplice’  (issue 3/2011) where he started out by saying: ‘In this piece I focus upon anthropology’s close ally in the contemporary social sciences, cultural studies. I argue that its core concepts and drives – some increasingly shared by anthropologists [...]

New Taussig

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

NDTV 24 x 7 The Hanging Channel

A text on NDTV 24×7. NDTC x 24 Hanging Channel - click for pdf scan.  ‘NDTV 24 X 7, the Hanging Channel: News Media or Horror Show?’ in Contemporary Indian Media and the Politics of Change, London: Routledge.  Published 2011. * A study of 24 hour Delhi based news channel NDTV’s reporting of the case of Mohammed Afzal [...]

Undercover Transports

click on the page to download a pdf of this text (now with all the images).

May 1, 2011

. Here, from the cobweb-covered vault, a discussion document from  1992, on writing: ✪   Communists Must Write, and how! There are various ways in which the political vacuum which we have so sorely felt in recent years can be countered. The need for a party, its support and discipline, its organisational strengths and sense [...]

downloadable texts

‘Culture Move‘ on ADF: in Ghadar May 2000 early version of the Pantomime Terror article an article on Asian Communists in the UK from Social Identities ; a piece on Fun*Da*Mental from South Asian Popular Culture; Adorno at Womad from Postcolonial Studies. The Chapatti Story from Contemporary South Asia; Michael Palin’s Himalaya in in Journal of the Moving Image The Politics of Cats from Stimulus Respond; Culture from Theory Culture [...]

THE PAPERED PARLOUR GOES EAST!

Thursday 07 April 2011, 6 – 9pm, V&A Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9PA THE PAPERED PARLOUR GOES EAST! Time Out First Thursdays at V&A Museum of Childhood It’s Your Write: A Celebration of the Self-Published! Artists, Musicians, Performers and Writers get political this April Thursday 07 April 2011, 6–9pm FREE TO [...]

THE PAPER

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The Paper edition 0

…..start press…..press start…..start press…..press start….. EDITION ZERO of The Paper is now available - www.wearethepaper.org to download the PDF  In this issue: – The Shoplifter’s Conundrum: Musings on a (non) scandal – Post-fordist protest – A retreat to be sure, but a retreat to the only possible victory – Loveable and Capable – We are political [...]

Text for Sokari

Sokari Douglas Camp I am honoured to introduce this collection by Sokari Douglas Camp. Sokari’s sculptural works – made in metal but moving fabric – are like an analytical textbook that deals with contemporary issues while also offering a passionate call to arms. The pieces that you can see in this brochure, but which must [...]

Lenin on Writing

I am against non-partisan writing, and, not altogether randomly, want to refer to Lenin to support this, where he writes: “Down with non-partisan writers. Down with literary supermen. Literature must become part of the common cause of the proletariat” (Lenin 1905 Party Organisation and Party Literature). In a way that long anticipates the post-structuralist interest in [...]

Marx on Writing

Marx, writing on the Paris Commune, singled out the writings of academic ‘gentlemen’: the working class can afford to smile at the course invective of the gentlemen’s gentlemen with the pen and inkhorn, and at the didactic patronage of well-wishing bourgeois-doctrinaires, pouring forth their ignorant platitudes and  sectarian crotchets in the oracular tone of scientific [...]