What's on has become what is to be done, and moved over to wordpress at:
http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/what-is-to-be-done/
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
reprise
What's on has become what is to be done, and moved over to wordpress at:
http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/what-is-to-be-done/
What is to be done? - this is how the page looked end of May 08 (sans pics):
Some of the things I have helped organise at Goldsmiths, or thought worth mentioning, recommending or just could not avoid gawping at, are posted on this page.
You should also check the CCS Events Page and the Goldsmiths Calender (not everything at Goldsmith gets on this page - its hardly NASA, so we don’t feel the need to do the difficult rocket science that would be required to co-ordinate these things college wide [sometimes there are just too many astronauts]).
The old list of past events in case you want to check up on who said what when, well they are *here*.
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Frankfurt Talk…
“Vortrag von Prof. Dr. John Hutnyk (University of London):
“Aki Nawaz’s Suicide Rap and our Pantomime Terrors (or, Paranoia in London: ‘Lookout, he’s behind you!’)”
(in englischer Sprache)
Veranstalter: Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie
Donnerstag, 29.5.2008: 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr; IG 454″
John Hutnyk Thursday 29 May 2008 Time: 18.15
Room 454 (Ground Floor) Grueneburgplatz 1, V 4
Westend Campus (the I.G. Farben building)
Frankfurt
Aki Nawaz’s Suicide Rap and our Pantomime Terrors (or, Paranoia in London: ‘Lookout, he’s behind you!’).
Performance studies and scholarship on popular culture has found a new more dangerous context. With terror alerts and constant announcements at train stations and airports in the UK, where the Queen’s subjects are called upon to ‘report any suspicious baggage’; with stop and search security policing focused upon Muslims (and unarmed Brazilians shot on the London underground); and with restrictions on civil liberties and ‘limits’ to freedom proclaimed as necessary, it is now clear that spaces for critical debate are mortally threatened in contemporary, tolerant, civilized Britain. This discussion addresses new performance work by diasporic world music stalwarts Fun-da-mental and the drum and bass outfit Asian Dub Foundation, relating to insurgency struggles, anti-colonialism and political freedom in the UK. The presentation will argue for an engaged critique of “culture” and assess a certain distance or gap between political expression and the tamed versions of multiculturalism accepted by/acceptable in the British marketplace. Examples from the music industry reception of ‘difficult’ music and creative engagement are evaluated in the context of the global terror wars and a new paranoia that appears endemic on the streets of London today…
Thursday 29 May 2008
Time: 18.15
Room 454 (Ground Floor)
Grueneburgplatz 1, V 4
Westend Campus (the I.G. Farben building)
Frankfurt
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Marx and Philosophy
June 2nd 2008
A one day workshop reflecting on issues relating to globalisation,
resistance, value and the Interpretation of Capital.
The day will be geared towards discussion, and is organised around
presentations dealing with the following topics: global community; civil
disobedience and its tactical evaluation; the political implications of
value theory; the content and implications of Marx’s work, and his
relation to philosophy.
Click on the poster to enlarge it….
Speakers and timetable
2.00 – 3.15
Jonathan Brookes: “Marx and Global Community”
Sam Meaden: “A Critical Appraisal of the ‘Reclaim the Streets’ Movement”
(3.15 – 3.30 - break)
3.30 – 4.30
Sean McKeown: “Value – Between Economics and Politics”
Nick Gray and Rob Lucas: “Formal and Real Subsumption – Logical or
Historical Categories?”
(4.30 – 5.00 – break)
5.00 – 6.30
Nicole Pepperell: “How to Walk with Hegel – On the the ‘Peculiar Social
Character’ of Commodity Production”
Alberto Toscano: response
Venue: Hatcham House seminar room, 17-19 St James Street, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
The event is hosted by the Graduate School of Goldsmiths University of London.
For any enquiries please contact Tom Bunyard at: cup01tb@gold.ac.uk
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April May 2008 - Cinema Division: a film festival traversing the Mexican-American border.
Click on the pages to enlarge and read…
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http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/what-is-to-be-done/
What is to be done? - this is how the page looked end of May 08 (sans pics):
Some of the things I have helped organise at Goldsmiths, or thought worth mentioning, recommending or just could not avoid gawping at, are posted on this page.
You should also check the CCS Events Page and the Goldsmiths Calender (not everything at Goldsmith gets on this page - its hardly NASA, so we don’t feel the need to do the difficult rocket science that would be required to co-ordinate these things college wide [sometimes there are just too many astronauts]).
The old list of past events in case you want to check up on who said what when, well they are *here*.
____________________________________________
Frankfurt Talk…
“Vortrag von Prof. Dr. John Hutnyk (University of London):
“Aki Nawaz’s Suicide Rap and our Pantomime Terrors (or, Paranoia in London: ‘Lookout, he’s behind you!’)”
(in englischer Sprache)
Veranstalter: Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie
Donnerstag, 29.5.2008: 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr; IG 454″
John Hutnyk Thursday 29 May 2008 Time: 18.15
Room 454 (Ground Floor) Grueneburgplatz 1, V 4
Westend Campus (the I.G. Farben building)
Frankfurt
Aki Nawaz’s Suicide Rap and our Pantomime Terrors (or, Paranoia in London: ‘Lookout, he’s behind you!’).
Performance studies and scholarship on popular culture has found a new more dangerous context. With terror alerts and constant announcements at train stations and airports in the UK, where the Queen’s subjects are called upon to ‘report any suspicious baggage’; with stop and search security policing focused upon Muslims (and unarmed Brazilians shot on the London underground); and with restrictions on civil liberties and ‘limits’ to freedom proclaimed as necessary, it is now clear that spaces for critical debate are mortally threatened in contemporary, tolerant, civilized Britain. This discussion addresses new performance work by diasporic world music stalwarts Fun-da-mental and the drum and bass outfit Asian Dub Foundation, relating to insurgency struggles, anti-colonialism and political freedom in the UK. The presentation will argue for an engaged critique of “culture” and assess a certain distance or gap between political expression and the tamed versions of multiculturalism accepted by/acceptable in the British marketplace. Examples from the music industry reception of ‘difficult’ music and creative engagement are evaluated in the context of the global terror wars and a new paranoia that appears endemic on the streets of London today…
Thursday 29 May 2008
Time: 18.15
Room 454 (Ground Floor)
Grueneburgplatz 1, V 4
Westend Campus (the I.G. Farben building)
Frankfurt
____________________________________________
Marx and Philosophy
June 2nd 2008
A one day workshop reflecting on issues relating to globalisation,
resistance, value and the Interpretation of Capital.
The day will be geared towards discussion, and is organised around
presentations dealing with the following topics: global community; civil
disobedience and its tactical evaluation; the political implications of
value theory; the content and implications of Marx’s work, and his
relation to philosophy.
Click on the poster to enlarge it….
Speakers and timetable
2.00 – 3.15
Jonathan Brookes: “Marx and Global Community”
Sam Meaden: “A Critical Appraisal of the ‘Reclaim the Streets’ Movement”
(3.15 – 3.30 - break)
3.30 – 4.30
Sean McKeown: “Value – Between Economics and Politics”
Nick Gray and Rob Lucas: “Formal and Real Subsumption – Logical or
Historical Categories?”
(4.30 – 5.00 – break)
5.00 – 6.30
Nicole Pepperell: “How to Walk with Hegel – On the the ‘Peculiar Social
Character’ of Commodity Production”
Alberto Toscano: response
Venue: Hatcham House seminar room, 17-19 St James Street, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
The event is hosted by the Graduate School of Goldsmiths University of London.
For any enquiries please contact Tom Bunyard at: cup01tb@gold.ac.uk
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April May 2008 - Cinema Division: a film festival traversing the Mexican-American border.
Click on the pages to enlarge and read…
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Monday, March 10, 2008
Raminder Kaur Wednesday 12 March 2008
CCS presents a special Lecture:Dr Raminder Kaur (University of Sussex)
"A Nuclear Dawn in South India:
Cultures of Anti-Nuclear Resistance in Kanyakumari District"
RHB 137a on Weds 12 March between 6-8pm. All Welcome.
(pic is of Raminder's book on Ganapati Festivals)
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Cinema Division - Tuesday films March 11 and 18, then April-May
Click on the pages to enlarge and read...
Monday, February 25, 2008
Jeremy Valentine Tuesday 4th March 2008
The Centre for Cultural Studies presents:
A talk by:
Jeremy Valentine, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh.
Tuesday 4th March
Goldsmiths cinema, RHB, 6pm - all welcome
"Everyone's at it: The Rentier Economy and the Morality of the Cultural Industries"
This paper is written in the spirit, but not the style, of Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees (1705). It begins with a critical analysis of theoretical claims that reduce culture to economy by virtue of the meaningful and embedded nature of the latter. There are two aspects of this critique. Firstly, an internal one directed at the assumption of a telos of homogeneity in cultural economy approaches. Even though the notion of economy is broadened everything is located within an equilibrium. Secondly, an external one which draws attention to the coincidence between cultural economy approaches and contemporary political rhetorics of ‘creative economy’. Both aspects naturalise historically specific relations of production through the category of culture and both privilege and generalise cultural industries as the leading edge of wealth production. The paper argues that both approaches are organised by a disavowal of the political dominance of the economic category of rent and the regimes of rights and fees on which it depends. Following a discussion of the problem of rent for capitalism, from Smith via Marx and Keynes to Buchanan, the paper outlines the role of rent in contemporary neo-liberal capitalism and its links to practices of ‘value capture’. The paper concludes with a discussion of the possible reasons for the valorisation of culture in contemporary neo-liberalism and in particular the example of the cultural industries in the formation of moral subjectivity.
A talk by:
Jeremy Valentine, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh.
Tuesday 4th March
Goldsmiths cinema, RHB, 6pm - all welcome
"Everyone's at it: The Rentier Economy and the Morality of the Cultural Industries"
This paper is written in the spirit, but not the style, of Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees (1705). It begins with a critical analysis of theoretical claims that reduce culture to economy by virtue of the meaningful and embedded nature of the latter. There are two aspects of this critique. Firstly, an internal one directed at the assumption of a telos of homogeneity in cultural economy approaches. Even though the notion of economy is broadened everything is located within an equilibrium. Secondly, an external one which draws attention to the coincidence between cultural economy approaches and contemporary political rhetorics of ‘creative economy’. Both aspects naturalise historically specific relations of production through the category of culture and both privilege and generalise cultural industries as the leading edge of wealth production. The paper argues that both approaches are organised by a disavowal of the political dominance of the economic category of rent and the regimes of rights and fees on which it depends. Following a discussion of the problem of rent for capitalism, from Smith via Marx and Keynes to Buchanan, the paper outlines the role of rent in contemporary neo-liberal capitalism and its links to practices of ‘value capture’. The paper concludes with a discussion of the possible reasons for the valorisation of culture in contemporary neo-liberalism and in particular the example of the cultural industries in the formation of moral subjectivity.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Bob Avakian on Film 18-19 Feb 2008
"Revolution: Why its Necessary, Why its Possible, What its all about" is a lengthy yet fascinating lecture by Bob Avakian, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States.
This monday and tuesday we can watch the first four hours (in two sittings) of Avakian:
"in his first public appearance since 1979, Avakian offers an astute critical analysis of American politics and the Maoist tactics that he believes can bring about revolutionary change. Although 20th century history has demonstrated the complications inherent in achieving the Communist ideal, Avakian puts forth a compelling case that a revolutionary program is what contemporary America needs (if not necessarily what it desires)"
"Bob Avakian is the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. And he is more than that: he's an innovative and critical thinker who has taken Marxism to a new place; he's a provocative commentator on everything from basketball to religion, doo-wop music to science and he's a pit-bull fighter against oppression who's kept both his solemn sense of purpose and his irrepressible sense of humor"
Goldsmiths RHB Cinema Monday 18th Feb 6pm - 8pm and Tuesday 19th Feb 6pm-8pm
All welcome.
See here for the DVD promo material, and here for my recent squirt of praise for his latest (quite funny, but serious) book.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Weds Feb 6th 2008
a special seminar for Weds Feb 6th 2008:
Double Header:
Professors Michael Taussig and Andrew Benjamin. 4pm - 7pm, Goldsmiths Cinema.
Topics:
Michael Taussig on art and vision (fieldwork),
Andrew Benjamin on Art and Abstraction (Mondrian).
Chaired by Christopher Pinney, Visiting Crowe Professor, Northwestern University
- this is a seminar exclusively for the Centre for Cultural Studies, not to be missed.
Double Header:
Professors Michael Taussig and Andrew Benjamin. 4pm - 7pm, Goldsmiths Cinema.
Topics:
Michael Taussig on art and vision (fieldwork),
Andrew Benjamin on Art and Abstraction (Mondrian).
Chaired by Christopher Pinney, Visiting Crowe Professor, Northwestern University
- this is a seminar exclusively for the Centre for Cultural Studies, not to be missed.
monday 28 Jan - Stanwyck classics.
After the epic engagement with Heidegger last week, the tone for the film this evening is decidedly less philosophical (largely because I am moving house and the Bob Avakian film I wanted to show is lost in a huge pile of boxes...)
So instead, a very special treat - two very early Barbara Stanwyck films
- 1932 B&W - "The Purchase Price"
and
1933 B&W - "Ladies They Talk About"
According to the video cover blurbs, the first one is described as 'a racy drama' and the second is ' a film worth seeing over and over again' . Both films are 1 hour ten minutes long, so 2 hours 20 in total.
Starts 6 pm Goldsmiths Cinema, Monday 28 January.
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So instead, a very special treat - two very early Barbara Stanwyck films
- 1932 B&W - "The Purchase Price"
and
1933 B&W - "Ladies They Talk About"
According to the video cover blurbs, the first one is described as 'a racy drama' and the second is ' a film worth seeing over and over again' . Both films are 1 hour ten minutes long, so 2 hours 20 in total.
Starts 6 pm Goldsmiths Cinema, Monday 28 January.
.
Monday, January 14, 2008
talk at Sussex 18 Jan 2008
Venue: Arts A 071, Sussex University at 4pm on friday 18th Jan 2008
Pantomime Terror: Media South Asia as Civil Society Green Zone.
John Hutnyk
Performance studies and scholarship on popular culture has found a new more dangerous context. With terror alerts and constant announcements at train stations and airports in the UK, where the Queen's subjects are called upon to 'report any suspicious baggage'; with stop and search security policing focused upon Muslims (and unarmed Brazilians shot on the London underground); and with restrictions on civil liberties and 'limits' to freedom proclaimed as necessary, it is now clear that spaces for critical debate are mortally threatened in contemporary, tolerant, civilized Britain. This discussion addresses new performance work by diasporic world music stalwarts Fun-da-mental and the drum and bass outfit Asian Dub Foundation, relating to insurgency struggles, anti-colonialism and political freedom in the UK. The presentation will argue for an engaged critique of "culture" and assess a certain distance or gap between political expression and the tamed versions of multiculturalism accepted by/acceptable in the British marketplace. Examples from the music industry reception of 'difficult' music and creative engagement are evaluated in the context of the global terror wars and a new paranoia that appears endemic on the streets of London today...
Pantomime Terror: Media South Asia as Civil Society Green Zone.
John Hutnyk
Performance studies and scholarship on popular culture has found a new more dangerous context. With terror alerts and constant announcements at train stations and airports in the UK, where the Queen's subjects are called upon to 'report any suspicious baggage'; with stop and search security policing focused upon Muslims (and unarmed Brazilians shot on the London underground); and with restrictions on civil liberties and 'limits' to freedom proclaimed as necessary, it is now clear that spaces for critical debate are mortally threatened in contemporary, tolerant, civilized Britain. This discussion addresses new performance work by diasporic world music stalwarts Fun-da-mental and the drum and bass outfit Asian Dub Foundation, relating to insurgency struggles, anti-colonialism and political freedom in the UK. The presentation will argue for an engaged critique of "culture" and assess a certain distance or gap between political expression and the tamed versions of multiculturalism accepted by/acceptable in the British marketplace. Examples from the music industry reception of 'difficult' music and creative engagement are evaluated in the context of the global terror wars and a new paranoia that appears endemic on the streets of London today...
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