a special seminar for Weds Feb 6th 2008:
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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, January 28, 2008
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.
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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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