28 November, 2011
luchese talk now up
The recording of Filippo del Luchese’s CRMEP talk ‘When the Slaves Go Marching Out: Indignatio, Invisible Bodies and Political Theory’ is now available as a podcast here.
28 November, 2011
bodies assembling: film screenings, 3-11 dec
BODIES ASSEMBLING
CINENOVA
3rd - 11th December 2011
Auto Italia in collaboration with Cinenova present Bodies Assembling, a series of screenings and workshops featuring moving image work selected by invited artists and activists.
Bodies Assembling strives to facilitate multiple readings or viewings of historical works from a current perspective, screening older film and video works from Cinenova’s collection alongside recent artistic and filmmaking practices. The construction of a temporary cinematic site at Auto Italia’s space will allow a discourse to develop that builds new relationships and knowledge.
Engaging with Auto Italia and Cinenova both as organisations but also as active communities of artists, the programme will express a range of diverse viewpoints on the struggles and feminisms present in the material distributed by Cinenova. Bodies Assembling will encourage discussion, collaborative practice and alternative approaches to the production and distribution of culture through film and video work.
Cinenova is the only women’s film distributor in Europe tracing a feminist film history from the early 20th Century. It is a charitable organisation currently run voluntarily by the Cinenova Working Group.
Bodies Assembling will act as a forum to consider the contemporary legacy of the film and video work distributed by Cinenova reflecting on the similarities and differences of filmmaking and its various economic and political contexts.
Saturday 3rd December
7pm – Take Up, Direct Action, Acting Up, and Lift
Activism, street actions and filmmaking; A Fantasy Whitehall and a historical insight into British women’s participation in the Olympics. Presented by Althea Greenan, curator of the Women’s Art Library (Make) at Goldsmiths.
Stock Exchange - Women’s Peace Action, Annabel Nicolson, UK, 1983, 10mins
Hey Mack, Tina Keane, UK, 1982, 15mins
Keep Your Laws Off My Body, Zoe Leonard and Catherine Saalfield, USA, 1990, 13mins
The London Story, Sally Potter, UK, 1987, 15mins
Watch That Lift, Martine Lumbroso, UK, 1986, 13mins
This screening follows on from ‘Women Artists, Feminism in the 80s and Now’: Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, December 3rd 10-5pm.
Sunday 4th December
4pm – Life, Love and HIV
Presented by makers of ‘Life, Love and HIV’, a video developed by ‘Adults living with HIV’ at Body & Soul, a pioneering UK charity dedicated to transforming the lives of children, teenagers and families living with, or affected by HIV. This screenings is exploration of media representation of discussions about and ‘for’ people who are affected by or living with HIV, in the context of current government cuts for funding HIV education, awareness and prevention in the UK.
Keep Your Laws Off My Body, Zoe Leonard and Catherine Saalfield, USA, 1990, 13mins
Mouthing Off, Leeds Aids Advice, UK, 1991 (excerpt)
Fast Trip Long Drop, Gregg Bordowitz, USA, 1993 (excerpt)
Life, Love and HIV, Adults living with HIV at Body & Soul, UK, 2011, 7mins
7pm – Social forms of resistance, incorporating the principles for which they are fighting
“They struggle not only for the idea of social support and political enfranchisement, but their struggle takes on a social form of its own” – Judith Butler, Bodies in Alliance.
A selection of films presented by Emma Hedditch and Melissa Castagnetto (Cinenova Working Group).
Leila and the Wolves, Heiny Srour, UK/Lebanon, 1984, 90 mins
The Package, Dara Greenwald & Ona Mirkinson, USA, 2010, 10mins
Thursday 8th December
7:30pm – Material Interventions
A workshop on how to operate a 16mm film projector presented by Kerstin Schroedinger. The workshop will be followed by a screening in which the participants are all responsible for the projection.
Slides I-V, Annabel Nicolson, UK, 1971, 16mins
(More titles to be confirmed)
Friday 9th December
7:30pm – Her Image Fades as Her Voice Rises
“Sitting with her at the table, talking, her hands poised over the typewriter. The words in our minds, turning between description and analysis – to write the image, or to write about an image.” – Felicity Sparrow and Lis Rhodes 1983.
The first four films acquired by Circles distribution, which later became Cinenova.
The Smiling Madame Beudet, Germaine Dulac, France, 1922, 35mins
Light Reading, Lis Rhodes, UK,1978, 20mins
A House Divided, Alice Guy, USA,1913, 13mins
Often During the Day, Joanna Davis, UK,1979, 16mins
Saturday 10th December
4pm – Several films, one of which is potentially tedious
Huw Lemmey and Nina Wakeford present a selection of films which highlight the political stakes of the 1980s, when women’s relationships with technology and the world of work were addressed head on. The survey documents the variety of strategies used in political and personal engagements with the moving image, and have been chosen to challenge our relationship to the ‘unfinished business’ of feminism.
In Our Hands, Greenham, Tina Keane, UK, 1984, 40mins
Did I say Hairdressing? I meant Astrophysics, Leeds Animation Workshop, UK , 1998, 14mins.
A Question of Choice, Sheffield Film Co-op, UK, 1982, 18mins
Running Out of Patience, Serena Everill and Chris Brown, Australia, 1987, 40mins
Impulse, Ramona Metcalfe, UK, 1987, 1min
7pm – It’s like staring someone out who isn’t looking at you
A performative screening organised by Rachal Bradley, Kate Cooper, Leslie Kulesh and Jess Weisner.
8pm – Transfictions
A presentation of two film works representing transgendered people. The works explore a possibility to transform the film-making process to find new vocabularies that challenge the notion of the ‘universal’. The screening will be accompanied by two texts from Irene Revell (Cinenova Working Group) and an interview between Richard John Jones (Auto Italia), Michael Oswell and Terre Thaemlitz.
Norrie, Annette Kennerly, UK, 1997, 21mins
Transfiction, Johannes Sjoberg, Brazil, 2007, 57mins
Sunday 11th December
4pm – Workshop on “Several films, one of which is potentially tedious”
An open discussion with Huw Lemmey and Nina Wakeford following on from the issues raised by their previous screening.
7pm – The Black Whole
The Archivist and Acting Director of the Lambeth Women’s Project, Ego Ahaiwe, will respond to Cinenova’s claims to represent women’s film and video considering what has been left/kept out. The Cinenova catalogue is largely representing work by White European and White North American women. This event will ask how and why this collection has preserved and, to a large extent, maintained the excluding systems that formed it. This screening and subsequent workshop seeks to explore possible formulas, structures and frameworks that would transform the status quo.
Recreating Media Images of Black Women, Zeinabu Irene Davis, USA, 1983, 30mins
(More titles to be confirmed)
28 November, 2011
@socialbloom, new social centre in bloomsbury
Hi everyone,
A new social centre has been opened up in the heart of Bloomsbury. The location is a disused, former museum held in joint ownership by the University of London and the School of Oriental and African Studies - which despite not being used for at least the last three years is still in excellent condition. Our intention is to use the space as primarily an organising hub in the lead up to the November 30 strike in the area (Bloomsbury in particular and the borough of Camden more widely). Simaltaneous with this we are using the space as an ongoing opportunity to provide meet-ups, events and meals to students, education workers, support staff, residents and the plain curious.
If you would like to organise an event or talk - please feel free to contact myself or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or alternatively upload the event here - http://bloomsburysocialcentre.wordpress.com/booking-form/
Otherwise if you would just like to disseminate our existence to friends, colleagues and those perhaps who might find our assistance of some use our online presence(s) are,
Wordpress - http://bloomsburysocialcentre.wordpress.com
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/bloomsburysocialcentre
Twitter - @socialbloom
Plain best of all would be for you to come down and see us! We have dinner every night at 8pm, which is the perhaps the best opportunity to hang out (though any time is fine between 10am and 11pm Monday-Sunday).
26 November, 2011
federici on occupy
here:
“This movement appears spontaneous but its spontaneity is quite organized, as it can be seen from the languages and practices it has adopted and the maturity it has shown in response to the brutal attacks by the authorities and the police. It reflects a new way of doing politics that has grown out of the crisis of the anti-globalization and antiwar movements of the last decade, one that emerges from the confluence between the feminist movement and the movement for the commons. By “movement for the commons” I refer to the struggles to create and defend anti-capitalist spaces and communities of solidarity and autonomy. For years now people have expressed the need for a politics that is not just antagonistic, and does not separate the personal from the political, but instead places the creation of more cooperative and egalitarian forms of reproducing human, social and economic relationships at the center of political work.”
25 November, 2011
cedric robinson, two events
Dear friends and colleagues,
It is with great pleasure that we announce two upcoming events with Cedric Robinson, Professor in the Department of Black Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Public Lecture
Staging Black Radicalism
Tuesday 29 November 6.00pm (please note the time change)
Queen Mary, University of London
Art Two Lecture Theatre
Mile End Campus - map available here, followed by a reception in the Senior Common Room
Speaking at Occupy LSX
Friday 2 December 5pm
St Paul’s occupation
Cedric Robinson is the author of Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership and Black Movements in America. He is also the author of numerous articles on US, African and Caribbean political thought; Western social theory, film and the press. His most recent work includesThe Anthropology of Marxism, a monograph study of the historical and discursive antecedents of Marxism, and research into anti-facism in Africa and the African Diaspora in the 1920s and 1930s.
Co-organised and sponsored by: Centre for Ethics and Politics (Queen Mary, University of London) Centre for Cultural Studies and the Department of Sociology (Goldsmiths, University of London)
24 November, 2011
cfp, new delhi
Conference ASA12 Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalising World, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 3rd - 6th April 2012
The deadline for the call for papers is: 7th December 2011. Website for online submission of paper proposals is: http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa12/index.shtml
Panel 23 Elite art in an age of populism: sowing monocultures?
Convenors: Julian Stallabrass (Courtauld Institute) and Emilia Terracciano (Courtauld Institute of Art)
Short Abstract
We welcome papers exploring the fading of national and local traditions in a new global mega-culture built in part on social networking sites.
Long Abstract
Today, most artists would admit that globalisation has penetrated all sectors of society, including that of contemporary art. But with the advent of globalisation we have witnessed the patronisation of multicultural work, fit for the enjoyment of predominantly western viewers. Over the past two decades, there has been a growing debate on whether a ‘Biennale Aesthetic’ is leading to the production of ‘glossy’ work which slots easily into a novel consumerist orientalism. Are artists providing viewers both at home and abroad reassurance that the world is becoming more comfortably monocultural? Although in the West some of the most successful ‘boom’ art appealed to popular taste- Hirst, Koons, Murakami, Kapoor and Gupta being the major figures; others floated an art world reputation out of popular approbation, and this was especially true of Banksy and other street artists. Do we see here a reworking and intensification of a postmodern populism? And if so, does it pose a deeper threat to elite culture than previously? In an age when there are millions of cultural producers with a potentially global audience, how do the art world and the museum respond?
The panel welcomes papers which explore the fading of national and local dominance and traditions in art in the light of a new global mega-culture built in part on social networking sites.
http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa12/index.shtml
23 November, 2011
crmep seminar tomorrow
This is a reminder to please join us for the next CRMEP research seminar this Thursday, 24 November from 6-8 pm with:
Filippo Del Lucchese (Politics and History, Brunel University)
*NOTE* The title of the talk has been changed to: “When the Slaves Go Marching Out: Indignatio, Invisible Bodies and Political Theory.”
Venue: Kingston University, Penrhyn Road campus, John Galsworthy Building, Room JG 3004
Details of how to get to Penrhyn Road campus can be found on the Kingston University website: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/aboutkingstonuniversity/location/howtofindus/
Filippo Del Lucchese is Lecturer in the History of Political Thought at Brunel University. He is the author of Conflict, Law and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza: Tumults and Indignation (Continuum Press, 2009). He is currently working on a project on “Political Teratology: The Monster as a Political Concept in the Early Modern Period.”
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/politics/staff-profiles/filippo-del-lucchese
20 November, 2011
nathan!
Is right.
19 November, 2011
occupy petition and the right to protest
Sign the petition defending occupy: http://defendtherighttoprotest.org/defend-the-occupy-movement-no-to-eviction-at-st-pauls/780/
17 November, 2011
philadelphia: this
16 November, 2011
assault on universities dates
See here for details and read the book, it’s great.
15 November, 2011
music, politics, agency event tomorrow at uel
Dear Friends and Colleagues
The Centre for Cultural Studies Research is holding the first of four symposia on the theme of Music, Politics and Agency in the Digital Age this coming Wednesday, 16th November, 1-5pm in room AE1.01 at UEL’s Stratford Campus (http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/stratford.htm).
The theme of the symposium will be East London. Andrew Blake, Richard Bramwell (LSE) and Derek Walmsley (The Wire) will be presenting papers. In addition, Steve Goodman (Hyperdub .Kode9) will appear in conversation with Jeremy Gilbert.
We very much hope to see you there…
14 November, 2011
crmep talk, 24 nov
Please join us for the next CRMEP research seminar on Thursday, 24 November from 6 - 8 pm:
“The Politics of Monstrosity”
Filippo Del Lucchese (Politics and History, Brunel University)
Venue: Kingston University, Penrhyn Road campus, John Galsworthy Building, Room JG 3004
Details of how to get to Penrhyn Road campus can be found on the Kingston University website: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/aboutkingstonuniversity/location/howtofindus/
Filippo Del Lucchese is Lecturer in the History of Political Thought at Brunel University. He is the author of Conflict, Law and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza: Tumults and Indignation (Continuum Press, 2009). He is currently working on a project on “Political Teratology: The Monster as a Political Concept in the Early Modern Period.”
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/politics/staff-profiles/filippo-del-lucchese
14 November, 2011
marx memorial library events
Please see below for details of upcoming lectures at the Marx Memorial Library:
The first, on 21st November:
The Marx Memorial Library will be hosting a talk by Mike Brown entitled “The Effects of the Spanish Civil War on Britain in World War II” at the Marx Memorial Library on the 21st November as part of our Winter Lectures series:
Abstract: The Spanish Civil War is unusual in that, for those with political interests, it is one of the milestones of the twentieth century, while for most others it is barely a footnote. Yet it also had important effects on Britain outside politics. In this talk, Mike Brown traces its influence on various facets of Britain in World War II.
Mike Brown biography: For 30 years Mike Brown taught history in several inner city comprehensives. In the absence of a book about the Home Front for his pupils, he decided to write one himself, and in doing so became something of an authority on the subject. Since then he has written many more books and he now works full time writing, giving talks, consultation and doing research.
And the second, on 12th December:
The Marx Memorial Library will also be hosting a talk by Andy Brockman entitled “Hear voices from a far distance”: The news, Ninos Vascos and Brigadistas in southeast London, at the Marx Memorial Library on 12th December as part of our Winter Lectures series:
Abstract: It can be suggested that the Spanish Civil War was the first conflict to receive the kind of intimate, almost real-time, picture-led reporting which is commonplace today. This coverage in turn shaped, and arguably often drove, the political and popular responses to the conflict.
With the issues of intervention in foreign conflicts and the response of society to refugees today still very much a live issue, it is both fascinating and necessary to examine the responses of seventy-five years ago.
The talk will examine how the community in southeast London receive news from Spain and how it responded to it at a political, humanitairian and activist level through political action, volunteering for service in Spain and by accommodating Basque refugee children.
Andy Brockman biography: Andy Brockman is a community archaeologist based in southeast London and a specialist in the archaeology of modern conflict. Since discovering the story of the Basque children’s colony at the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society Conference Centre at Shornells in Abbey Wood, he has been researching community responses to the Spanish Civil War in the Woolwich area. In 2010 he directed the first excavation on the site of Tom Wintringham’s “Picture Post”-sponsored Home Guard School at Osterley Park.
Entrance to both events is £2.50 or £1 concessions and lectures begin at 6.30pm.
Hope to see you there!
Jesse Bela Sullivan
Library Administrator
Marx Memorial Library
37a Clerkenwell Green
London
EC1R 0DU
020 7253 1485
14 November, 2011
whitechapel event, dec 8
Spaces of Capital: Cultures of Capitalism III, Whitechapel Gallery
Thursday 8 December 2011, 7.00pm
Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1
Price: £7.00 / £5.00 concessions (includes free glass of wine).
This season’s Whitechapel Salon organised by the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture at the University of Westminster, in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, is on ‘Cultures of Capitalism’. Our third discussion focuses on imagining the Spaces of Capital. How can art and politics image, represent or map the spaces of contemporary capitalism? And, in the light of current spaces of occupation, what critical and political possibilities for resistance or opposition might such imaginings contain? Participants include Alberto Toscano, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths and author of The Idea of Fanaticism, and Andy Merrifield, author of Metromarxism and Dialectical Urbanism, along with a representative from the Haircut Before the Party collective. Chaired by David Cunningham.
Book your ticket at: http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/category_id/22/product_id/1027?session_id=1320678264848dfa9cc85be835a3493e662f207489
IMCC: http://instituteformodern.co.uk/
14 November, 2011
deleuze conference cfp
Deleuze, Philosophy, Transdisciplinarity
Goldsmiths, 10th-11th February
Invited Speakers: Eric Alliez, Miguel de Beistegui, John Mullarkey, Laura Cull, Christian Kerslake, Thomas Baldwin, Iain MacKenzie, Nathan Widder, Andrew Goffey, Stamatia Portanova, Giuseppe Bianco
Organised by the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London and the University of Kent
We are now entering a new phase of Deleuze studies which seeks to understand the specificity of Deleuze’s mode of philosophising. This is necessary, firstly in order to establish an account of his work’s developments and ruptures which is neither reductive nor partisan and secondly, to be able to better situate Deleuze within the context of contemporary thought. While the concept of immanence has recently been seized upon as the way of measuring Deleuze’s philosophical development (Kerslake, 2009; Beistegui, 2010), this conference would like to shift the focus to another yet closely interrelated problematic, which is the concept of philosophy and its essential relation to transdisciplinarity.
What precisely does Deleuze understand by the term ‘philosophy’? In The Logic of Sense, Deleuze states that ‘Philosophy merges with ontology, but ontology merges with the univocity of Being’ (p. 205, Continuum, 2004). Does philosophy have privileged access to a univocal Being that is itself non-philosophical, and which subsumes not only philosophy but also philosophy’s preconditions - what The Logic of Sense refers to as the ‘sciences’ of logic, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis, as well as art? Does Deleuze and Guattari’s re-formulation of this problematic in What is Philosophy? contradict the earlier Deleuze when it appears to posit a more extrinsic relation – or interference – between philosophy, science, and art, all three of which open up to Chaos, which they claim is equally distinct from the preconditions of philosophy, science and art (nonphilosophy, nonscience, nonart)? Are we to understand Deleuze’s concept of philosophy as essentially and inherently transdisciplinary, and if so, how? What is at stake here is the possibility of establishing a ‘common ethico-aesthetic discipline’(Guattari, Continuum, 2000) and the role of philosophy in such a project.
We aim to have a wide range of papers converging on the concept of philosophy found in Deleuze’s work and dialoguing with the problems we have alluded to. Suggested paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Deleuze and the history of philosophy: his methodology, his conception of the history of philosophy, his readings of specific philosophers and thinkers
- The place of science and logic in Deleuze’s philosophy
- The place of art in Deleuze’s philosophy
- Deleuze and non-philosophy, and the role of the pre/post-philosophical in his philosophy
- Shifts in Deleuze’s readings of particular philosophers, and more generally in Deleuze’s own concept of philosophy, throughout his career
- The critical assessment of Guattari’s influence on Deleuze’s philosophy
Please send abstracts (350 words) and a short biography to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) /guillaume.collett@hotmail.co.uk by 16th December 2011. Registration is free but please contact us by January 2012 if you would like to attend the conference.
7 November, 2011
philadelphia!
7 November, 2011
repetition event, nov 26
again: on repetition
An informal symposium on repetition in practice
With David Berridge, John Hall, Rupert Hartley, Deborah Harty, Eirini Kartsaki, Alana Jelinek and Jill Townsley + knitting by Dagmar Radmacher and screening of works by Hyun Jin Cho and Marianne Holm Hansen.
Saturday 26th November 2011 | 6pm
The Project Space
SPACE Studios
Entrance: 19 Warburton Road (map: http://tinyurl.com/63pr6fd)
London E8 3RH
Places are FREE but limited - reply to this email to book or, for more information and to book see: http://criticalm.org/repetition/
The event takes place as a continuation of the book project ‘100 things not repeating: on repetition’ (LemonMelon, 2011):
http://www.lemonmelon.org/index.php?/publications/100-things-not-worth-repeating-on-repetition/
7 November, 2011
kierkegaard and the police
‘At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless, intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among the criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness - not crimes and scandals’ - Journals, 1847.
7 November, 2011
feminist epistemology conference, kingston, nov 18-19
Society for Women in Philosophy (UK) Conference
FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS
Advance booking now recommended.
Hosted by the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy
(CRMEP), Kingston University
http://www.kingston.ac.uk/crmep
With support from the Institute of Philosophy (SAS)
18–19 November 2011
London, Kingston University
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Alessandra Tanesini (University of Cardiff)
‘From Margin to Centre: Feminist Epistemology as Socially Responsible
Epistemology’
Respondent: Kathleen Lennon (University of Hull)
Gillian Howie (University of Liverpool)
‘Is There a “Continental “Feminist Epistemology?”’
Respondent: Alison Stone (University of Lancaster)
Kirsten Campbell (Goldsmiths, University of London)
‘Feminist Epistemology and Psychoanalytic Theory’
Respondent: Stella Sandford (Kingston University)
Miranda Fricker (Birkbeck College, University of London)
‘Feminist Epistemology as Social Epistemology’
Respondent: Stella Gonzalez Arnal (University of Hull)
PARALLEL SESSION SPEAKERS:
Aaron Creller, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
‘Developing Multiple Epistemologies: Making Space for a Capacious
Approach to Knowledge’
Annaleigh Curtis, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
‘Just Interpretation: Feminist Standpoint Theory and Experimental Philosophy’
Barrett Emerick, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, USA
‘A Defense of Doxastic and Affective Voluntarism’
Dieuwertje Dyi Huijg, University of Manchester
‘Epistemic Confusion at the Feminist Activist Locus of Intersectional
Dis/advantage: Some Questions for Standpoint Theory’
Roxanna Lynch, Swansea University, Wales
‘Assessing the Epistemological Assumptions behind the Ethics of Care’
Sarah Mattice, University of North Florida, USA
‘Intersections and Interventions: Chinese and Feminist Epistemologies’
Mariana Szapuová, Comenius Univesity, Bratislava, Slovakia
‘Feminist Epistemology and the Social Turn: Perspectives on the Knowing Subject’
Iris van der Tuin, Utrecht University, Netherlands
‘Diffraction as a Methodology for Feminist Epistemology’
Sorana Vieru, University of Bristol, UK
‘Epistemic Privilege and the Philosophy of Science: Against Feminist
Standpoint Theory in the Natural Sciences’
Full schedule available to download from conference web page:
http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=1766
Fees
The conference is open to everyone. SWIP members are entitled to a
reduced fee. The fees include refreshments, wine reception on Friday
evening and lunch on Saturday.
18 and 19th November (2 days)
Waged: £60.00
Waged SWIP members: £50.00
Unwaged and students: £15.00
One day only (18th or 19th)
Waged: £50.00
Waged SWIP members: £40.00
Unwaged and students: £10.00
Conference dinner (18th November): £22.50
DINNER PLACES ARE LIMITED - ADVANCE BOOKING ESSENTIAL
Dr Stella Sandford
Reader in Modern European Philosophy
Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy
Kingston University
Holmwood House
Penrhyn Road Campus
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 2EE
+44 (0)20 8417 2088
http://www.kingston.ac.uk/crmep
6 November, 2011
camping and communism
Or, why G. A. Cohen should still be around so he could have witnessed the Occupy movement (from here), in his very last thoughts:
‘You and I and a whole bunch of other people go on a camping trip. There is no hierarchy among us; our common aim is that each of us should have a good time, doing, so far as possible, the things that he or she likes best (some of those things we do together, others we do separately). We have facilities with which to carry out our enterprise: we have, for example, pots and pans, oil, coffee, fishing rods, canoes, a soccer ball, decks of cards, and so forth. And, as is usual on camping trips, we avail ourselves of those facilities collectively: even if they are privately owned things, they are under collective control for the duration of the trip, and we have shared understandings about who is going to use them when, and under what circumstances, and why. Somebody fishes, somebody else prepares the food, and another person cooks it. People who hate cooking but enjoy washing up may do all the washing up, and so on. There are plenty of differences, but our mutual understandings, and the spirit of the enterprise, ensure that there are no inequalities to which anyone could mount a principled objection.’
6 November, 2011
support defendants, nov 25th
6 November, 2011
piece by omar ibrahim
At CiF here. Omar got 18 months last Friday for violent disorder.
Please read the article and comment against the trolls and haters if you can.
