‘Social Reproduction’ has re-emerged as a central idea in left-feminist analyses of contemporary power relations and institutions. What light can it shed on our situation in the post-pandemic era and how does it relate to the politics of work, life and care? Speakers: Helen Hester, Professor of Media and Communication, University of West London. Author of Xenofeminism Jo Littler, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, City University London, editor of Left Feminisms and co-author of The Care Manifesto.

‘Social Reproduction’ has re-emerged as a central idea in left-feminist analyses of contemporary power relations and institutions. What light can it shed on our situation in the post-pandemic era and how does it relate to the politics of work, life and care? Speakers: Helen Hester, Professor of Media and Communication, University of West London. Author of <a href="https://laboriacuboniks.net/books/xenofeminism-helen-hester/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Xenofeminism</a> Jo Littler, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, City University London, editor of <a href="https://lwbooks.co.uk/product/left-feminisms" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Left Feminisms</a> and co-author of <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2625-the-care-manifesto" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Care Manifesto</a>.

Social Reproduction in Theory and Practice: Socialist Feminism and the Politics of Care

While mainstream commentators and far-right apologists insist that that the great political divide today is between different sets of cultural ‘values’, the fact is that nothing correlates with voting Tory as closely as being an outright homeowner with a secure pension. Is this coincidence, or is the social and generation divide between those with property and without it now the key structuring feature of British society, culture and politics? Ridley Road Market Bar , 49 Ridley Road, London, E8 2NP 18:30-20:30. Free, no advance booking, all welcome. Speakers Molly Broome, economist at the Resolution Foundation working on issues linked to intergenerational fairness and wealth inequality. Joe Chrisp,  Research Associate at the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, researching the political economy of the welfare state, comparative politics, labour markets, assets and ageing, and basic income. Keir Milburn, author of Generation Left

While mainstream commentators and far-right apologists insist that that the great political divide today is between different sets of cultural ‘values’, the fact is that nothing correlates with voting Tory as closely as being an outright homeowner with a secure pension. Is this coincidence, or is the social and generation divide between those with property and without it now the key structuring feature of British society, culture and politics? <a href="https://www.ridleyroadmarketbar.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ridley Road Market Bar </a>, 49 Ridley Road, London, E8 2NP 18:30-20:30. Free, no advance booking, all welcome. Speakers Molly Broome, economist at the Resolution Foundation working on issues linked to intergenerational fairness and wealth inequality. Joe Chrisp,  Research Associate at the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, researching the political economy of the welfare state, comparative politics, labour markets, assets and ageing, and basic income. Keir Milburn, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Generation-Left-Radical-Futures-Milburn-ebook/dp/B07SQKH84V/ref=sr_1_1?crid=31IA5HL2WXULY&amp;keywords=Generation+left&amp;qid=1682340188&amp;sprefix=generation+left%2Caps%2C78&amp;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Generation Left</a>

Generational Politics and the Asset Economy

Emergency Podcast! Once again Jeremy is joined by Professor Alan Finlayson at very short notice to discuss some very stupid action taken by the Labour Party leadership. This week the party has threatened Neal Lawson, Director of Compass with expulsion from the party. Why has this attracted headlines and  outrage, and what does it mean? Have Neal and Compass gone too far in defending comrades on the left ? What is the ‘soft left’ of the Labour Party, where did it come from, and why is it now being attacked so viciously by the leadership? What is the history of political proscription and expulsion from the party, and what is distinctive about Labour politics now in 2023?

Emergency Podcast! Once again Jeremy is joined by Professor Alan Finlayson at very short notice to discuss some very stupid action taken by the Labour Party leadership. This week the party has threatened Neal Lawson, Director of <a href="https://www.compassonline.org.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Compass</a> with <a href="https://www.compassonline.org.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">expulsion from the party</a>. Why has this attracted <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/30/compass-chief-says-labour-has-expelled-him-and-attacks-party-tyranny" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">headlines</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/01/rightwing-illiberal-labour-mp-jon-cruddas-condemns-keir-starmers-witch-hunt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">outrage</a>, and what does it mean? Have Neal and Compass gone too far in<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/16/labour-keir-starmer-left-government-leader" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> defending comrades on the left </a>? What is the ‘soft left’ of the Labour Party, where did it come from, and why is it now being attacked so viciously by the leadership? What is the history of political proscription and expulsion from the party, and what is distinctive about Labour politics now in 2023?

Why is the Labour Leadership attacking the ‘soft left’?

In this coronation year, we are visibly reminded that the trappings of the British state are overlaid with the legacies of its empire. But to what extent are current attitudes, legal frameworks and political arrangements really shaped by this imperialist and colonialist past? Did the very idea of a British ‘nation’ – a relatively novel concept in the post-war period – in fact represent a radical break with the idea of empire? What are the implications of these questions for understanding Britain in the 21st century?   Speakers David Edgerton, Professor of Modern British History, Kings College London, author of The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth Century History Kojo Koram, Senior Lecture in Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. 

In this coronation year, we are visibly reminded that the trappings of the British state are overlaid with the legacies of its empire. But to what extent are current attitudes, legal frameworks and political arrangements really shaped by this imperialist and colonialist past? Did the very idea of a British ‘nation’ – a relatively novel concept in the post-war period – in fact represent a radical break with the idea of empire? What are the implications of these questions for understanding Britain in the 21st century?  Speakers David Edgerton, Professor of Modern British History, Kings College London, author of <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/192782/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-british-nation-by-edgerton-david/9780141975979" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth Century History</a> Kojo Koram, Senior Lecture in Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Uncommon-Wealth-Britain-Aftermath-Empire/dp/B09NMKBS4L" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. </a>

Empire, Nation and the British State

The Conservative and Unionist Party of the United Kingdom has experienced a prolonged period of crisis and transformation, from pro-austerity technocrats under David Cameron to nationalist populists under Johnson. Current PM Rishi Sunak struggles to hold the different factions together amid the demographic and political fracturing of the UK. Can the Tory party reinvent itself once again, or is it in terminal decline? Can the Party still rely on media support or does the rise of digital media and a more volatile political-communicative landscape undermine their ability to set the media agenda? Speakers Phil Burton-Cartledge, lecturer in Sociology at University of Derby and author of Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain Ruth Garland, Lecturer and Convenor, BA Promotional Media at Goldsmiths, University of London, and author of Government Communications and the Crisis of Trust: From Political Spin to Post-truth

The Conservative and Unionist Party of the United Kingdom has experienced a prolonged period of crisis and transformation, from pro-austerity technocrats under David Cameron to nationalist populists under Johnson. Current PM Rishi Sunak struggles to hold the different factions together amid the demographic and political fracturing of the UK. Can the Tory party reinvent itself once again, or is it in terminal decline? Can the Party still rely on media support or does the rise of digital media and a more volatile political-communicative landscape undermine their ability to set the media agenda? Speakers Phil Burton-Cartledge, lecturer in Sociology at University of Derby and author of <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2630-falling-down" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain</a> Ruth Garland, Lecturer and Convenor, BA Promotional Media at Goldsmiths, University of London, and author of <a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-77576-6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Government Communications and the Crisis of Trust: From Political Spin to Post-truth</a>

Is there a future for British conservatism?

Veganism (or, at least, consumption of “plant based” foods) has exploded in the last few years. But what is the relationship between veganism, the climate crisis and the politics of green social justice? Is veganism an inherently individualistic and moralistic form of political activity or a collective practice to resist the commodification of nonhuman animals and capital’s expropriation of nature? How and why has veganism become part of the online “culture wars”?  Speakers: Eva Haifa Giraud, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Society at the University of Sheffield, author or Veganism: Politics, Practice and Theory  Jacob Mukherjee, convener of MA Political Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, currently researching digital vegan activism and left praxis 

Veganism (or, at least, consumption of “plant based” foods) has exploded in the last few years. But what is the relationship between veganism, the climate crisis and the politics of green social justice? Is veganism an inherently individualistic and moralistic form of political activity or a collective practice to resist the commodification of nonhuman animals and capital’s expropriation of nature? How and why has veganism become part of the online “culture wars”? Speakers: Eva Haifa Giraud, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Society at the University of Sheffield, author or <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/veganism-9781350124936/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Veganism: Politics, Practice and Theory </a> Jacob Mukherjee, convener of MA Political Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, currently researching digital vegan activism and left praxis

Veganism collective political movement or individualistic ethical consumerism? 

What are the philosophical and political coordinates of a contemporary eco-socialism? What are the political, economic, cultural and philosophical implications of current debates over ‘degrowth’ and its alternatives? Should we be looking for new forms of sustainable growth, new definitions of economic progress, or completely new ways of conceptualising the desirable future?   Speakers  Richard Seymour, author of The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism  Jeremy Gilbert Stepped in at the last minute….

What are the philosophical and political coordinates of a contemporary eco-socialism? What are the political, economic, cultural and philosophical implications of current debates over ‘degrowth’ and its alternatives? Should we be looking for new forms of sustainable growth, new definitions of economic progress, or completely new ways of conceptualising the desirable future?  Speakers  Richard Seymour, author of <a href="https://theindigopress.com/product/the-disenchanted-earth-paperback/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism </a> Jeremy Gilbert Stepped in at the last minute….

Ecosocialism and Degrowth

The pandemic exposed the insecurity and vulnerability of workers – from delivery riders to poorly paid culture industry freelancers – who struggled to access the protections afforded to workers on standard employment contacts. Can unions organise these precarious workers to fight for better conditions, or are their working lives simply too fragmented and isolated for collective action to work effectively?   Ridley Road Market Bar , 49 Ridley Road, London, E8 2NP 18:30-20:30. Free, no advance booking, all welcome. Speakers Callum Cant, postdoctoral researcher and author of Riding for Deliveroo Annika Weiss, freelance camera worker and PhD researcher on work in the culture industries

The pandemic exposed the insecurity and vulnerability of workers – from delivery riders to poorly paid culture industry freelancers – who struggled to access the protections afforded to workers on standard employment contacts. Can unions organise these precarious workers to fight for better conditions, or are their working lives simply too fragmented and isolated for collective action to work effectively?   <a href="https://www.ridleyroadmarketbar.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ridley Road Market Bar </a>, 49 Ridley Road, London, E8 2NP 18:30-20:30. Free, no advance booking, all welcome. Speakers Callum Cant, postdoctoral researcher and author of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Riding-Deliveroo-Resistance-New-Economy/dp/1509535519" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Riding for Deliveroo</a> Annika Weiss, freelance camera worker and PhD researcher on work in the culture industries

Can Precarious Workers Be Organised?

The high point of Left electoral success represented by Corbynism, the Sanders campaign, Mélenchon and others seems to have passed. Meanwhile, the climate and broader ecological crises intensify and much of the mobilisation around these issues – from XR to the school climate strikes to Just Stop Oil – originates outside of the conventional Left. How should the Left engage with the climate movement, and vice versa, at a time when the cost-of-living crisis and the largest wave of strikes for 30 years are also urgent priorities? Speakers Asad Rehman, Director War on Want Feyzi Ismail, Lecturer in Global Policy and Activism – Goldsmiths, University of London Robin Wells, director of Fossil Free London, a grassroots climate organisation

The high point of Left electoral success represented by Corbynism, the Sanders campaign, Mélenchon and others seems to have passed. Meanwhile, the climate and broader ecological crises intensify and much of the mobilisation around these issues – from XR to the school climate strikes to Just Stop Oil – originates outside of the conventional Left. How should the Left engage with the climate movement, and vice versa, at a time when the cost-of-living crisis and the largest wave of strikes for 30 years are also urgent priorities? Speakers Asad Rehman, Director <a href="https://waronwant.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">War on Want</a> Feyzi Ismail, Lecturer in Global Policy and Activism – Goldsmiths, University of London Robin Wells, director of <a href="https://fossilfreelondon.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fossil Free London</a>, a grassroots climate organisation

The Left and the ecological crisis 

Recorded Live at the Ridley Road Market Bar, Dalston, London, on May 3rd 2023 WithAnthony Barnett, Founder of Charter 88 and open Democracy, author of many books including Taking Control: Humanity and America after Trump and the Pandemic and The Lure of Greatness: England’s Brexit and Trump’s America.  Laura Clancy, Lecturer in Media, Lancaster University. Author of Running the Family Firm: how the royal family manages its image and our money and the forthcoming What is the Monarchy For?

Recorded Live at the Ridley Road Market Bar, Dalston, London, on May 3rd 2023 With Anthony Barnett, Founder of Charter 88 and open Democracy, author of many books including Taking Control: Humanity and America after Trump and the Pandemic and The Lure of Greatness: England’s Brexit and Trump’s America.  Laura Clancy, Lecturer in Media, Lancaster University. Author of Running the Family Firm: how the royal family manages its image and our money and the forthcoming What is the Monarchy For?

The Meaning of the Monarchy

Recordings of a regular seminar on radical theory, culture and politics led by Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London.

Culture, Power and Politics » Podcast

 With Alex Williams  In this session Alex and Jeremy go into more detail on some of the key conceptual arguments of their forthcoming book Hegemony Now, talking about platforms as a modality of power, the nature of material and social interests, and the affective dimension of hegemonic relations.https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/hegemony-now-part-2.mp3

With<a href="https://www.uea.ac.uk/ppl/people/profile/alex-williams" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Alex Williams </a> In this session Alex and Jeremy go into more detail on some of the key conceptual arguments of their forthcoming book Hegemony Now, talking about platforms as a modality of power, the nature of material and social interests, and the affective dimension of hegemonic relations. <a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/hegemony-now-part-2.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/hegemony-now-part-2.mp3</a>

Hegemony Now: Power in the Twenty-First Century (2)

Maurizio Lazzarato

With Maurizio Lazzarato and Andrew Goffey  Maurizio Lazzarato is best known for having coined the term ‘immaterial labour’ as a way of describing the many forms of work in the contemporary economy that do not produce physical outputs, but are concerned with the production of knowledges, information-flows, moods, and experiences. But his work extends way beyond this analysis, drawing on the tradition of ‘autonomist’ Marxism and the ideas of thinkers such as Foucault and Guattari to offer one of the most powerful and engaged analyses of neoliberal culture, contemporary capitalism, and the organisation forms that resistance to it requires. This year sees the publication of the English translation of one of his most important works, Experimental Politics. This book provides an account of a key episode in recent French political history – the highly innovative struggle to defend the rights of precarious creative workers that emerged in the summer of 2003 – and uses it to offer one of the most profound analyses to date of the nature of advanced neoliberalism and its complex relationship to creative practice of all kinds. The book was translated by a team of Arianna Bove, Jeremy Gilbert, Andrew Goffey, Mark Hayward and Jason Read, with Jeremy providing a long critical introduction to the book and Lazzarato’s ideas. In this seminar Maurizio himself explores how those ideas have developed and why they are so relevant for contemporary radical politics. https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/maurizio-lazzarato-week-one.mp3

With Maurizio Lazzarato and Andrew Goffey Maurizio Lazzarato is best known for having coined the term ‘immaterial labour’ as a way of describing the many forms of work in the contemporary economy that do not produce physical outputs, but are concerned with the production of knowledges, information-flows, moods, and experiences. But his work extends way beyond this analysis, drawing on the tradition of ‘autonomist’ Marxism and the ideas of thinkers such as Foucault and Guattari to offer one of the most powerful and engaged analyses of neoliberal culture, contemporary capitalism, and the organisation forms that resistance to it requires. This year sees the publication of the English translation of one of his most important works, Experimental Politics. This book provides an account of a key episode in recent French political history – the highly innovative struggle to defend the rights of precarious creative workers that emerged in the summer of 2003 – and uses it to offer one of the most profound analyses to date of the nature of advanced neoliberalism and its complex relationship to creative practice of all kinds. The book was translated by a team of Arianna Bove, Jeremy Gilbert, Andrew Goffey, Mark Hayward and Jason Read, with Jeremy providing a long critical introduction to the book and Lazzarato’s ideas. In this seminar Maurizio himself explores how those ideas have developed and why they are so relevant for contemporary radical politics. <a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/maurizio-lazzarato-week-one.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/maurizio-lazzarato-week-one.mp3</a>

Work, Debt, Creativity, Resistance: An Introduction to the thought of Maurizio Lazzarato

https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/we-are-all-migrants.mp3 This is the recording of the Feb 23rd 2016 lecture / discussion ‘We Are All Migrants’, given by Jeremy Gilbert, covering issues around the legacies of colonialism and imperialism. This lecture is part of a series ‘Introduction to Cultural Studies: Culture, Technology, Power’ hosted at Open School East, which has merged with the ‘Culture, Power, Politics’ series for the time being. For more details see https://culturepowerpolitics.org/introduction-to-cultural-studies-culture-technology-power/. The session starts a little slow because Jeremy had a heavy cold, but the discussion is very wide-ranging. The slides for this lecture can be found at https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/migration-ose-slides.pdf

<a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/we-are-all-migrants.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/we-are-all-migrants.mp3</a> This is the recording of the Feb 23rd 2016 lecture / discussion ‘We Are All Migrants’, given by Jeremy Gilbert, covering issues around the legacies of colonialism and imperialism. This lecture is part of a series ‘Introduction to Cultural Studies: Culture, Technology, Power’ hosted at Open School East, which has merged with the ‘Culture, Power, Politics’ series for the time being. For more details see <a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/introduction-to-cultural-studies-culture-technology-power/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/introduction-to-cultural-studies-culture-technology-power/</a>. The session starts a little slow because Jeremy had a heavy cold, but the discussion is very wide-ranging. The slides for this lecture can be found at <a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/migration-ose-slides.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/migration-ose-slides.pdf</a>

We Are All Migrants

The third session deals with some of the political insights than be drawn from the psychoanalytic tradition, and from some radical critiques of it. https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/politics-of-the-unconscious.mp3

The third session deals with some of the political insights than be drawn from the psychoanalytic tradition, and from some radical critiques of it. <a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/politics-of-the-unconscious.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/politics-of-the-unconscious.mp3</a>

Culture, Power and Politics, Seminar 3: The Politics of the Unconscious

https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/feminism-ose.mp3 If historians of the future remember our era for anything, it is probably going to be the unprecedented revolution in the social status of women that we have lived through, and are living through.  But the movement which made that change possible is still derided and feared, often seemingly unpopular with the very generations of young women who have benefited from it. At the same time it has raised a question which cultural and social theory is still struggling to answer – what is gender? Is it a social construct or a biological fact, or both, or neither? What does it mean to be a feminist today? Where does masculinity fit into all this? What are ‘performativity’ and ‘intersectionality’ when they’re at home?

<a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/feminism-ose.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/feminism-ose.mp3</a> If historians of the future remember our era for anything, it is probably going to be the unprecedented revolution in the social status of women that we have lived through, and are living through.  But the movement which made that change possible is still derided and feared, often seemingly unpopular with the very generations of young women who have benefited from it. At the same time it has raised a question which cultural and social theory is still struggling to answer – what is gender? Is it a social construct or a biological fact, or both, or neither? What does it mean to be a feminist today? Where does masculinity fit into all this? What are ‘performativity’ and ‘intersectionality’ when they’re at home?

This is What a Feminist Looks Like

https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/can-you-feel-it.mp3   Can you Feel it? Once upon a time, Cultural Studies was basically about looking at everything as if it were a language: fashion, advertising, music and journalism were understood as different ways in which people ‘make meanings’. A lot of cultural studies still is like that – it’s a very useful and productive way of looking at things. But what about those aspects of our lives which are not easy to translate into ‘meanings’?  What about feelings? What about the sounds of music, the colours of paintings, the physical thrill of watching a movie? These issues aren’t just important for thinking about art and music – they’re also crucial to understanding what motivates people politically and socially. We’ll  explore these issues and try to get inside one of the most difficult but rewarding bodies of 20th century theory: the ‘schizoanalysis’ of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. I’m going to stick my neck out and say that if there’s one pair of thinkers from the past hundred years who offer uniquely insightful ways of thinking about all of these issues, about the nature of power and the nature of change, and about the very question of what it means to be alive, then I think it’s Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Deleuze was arguably the most influential French philosopher of the late 20th century. Guattari was a militant psychotherapist, an early advocate of ‘queer’ politics’, a key figure in the run-up to the events of May 1968, a widely innovative thinker who ended up running as a Green candidate in regional elections shortly before his death in the early 90s. D&amp;Gs work is very difficult to read for the uninitiated because it draws on an obscure and idiosyncratic set of sources, and it has become normal in both the French and English-speaking worlds for it to become largely the preserve of academics and aesthetes. This is a shame, because once you get past the unique terminology (or rather, start to become accustomed to it), this really is one of the most powerful bodies of thought around for thinking about politics on every scale – the result of one of the most ambitious attempts to date to think about the relationships between psychic, the social, the physical and the political aspects of human (and non-human) experience. In particular D&amp;G have been taken up in various areas of the humanities and social sciences in recent years as theorists of ‘affect’ – of the emotional and bodily aspects of communication and social relationships. Again – this is a really important issue when thinking about all forms of political communication. When focus groups in Nuneaton say that they don’t like Corbyn because he just sort of looks and sounds wrong, they are not primarily responding to the things that he says, but in the way that he says them, in the tone of his voice and the way he seems to carry himself. This is all a question of ‘affect’ as much as it is a question of ‘framing’ or ‘meaning’. So…a lot to think about!

<a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/can-you-feel-it.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/can-you-feel-it.mp3</a> Can you Feel it? Once upon a time, Cultural Studies was basically about looking at everything as if it were a language: fashion, advertising, music and journalism were understood as different ways in which people ‘make meanings’. A lot of cultural studies still is like that – it’s a very useful and productive way of looking at things. But what about those aspects of our lives which are not easy to translate into ‘meanings’?  What about feelings? What about the sounds of music, the colours of paintings, the physical thrill of watching a movie? These issues aren’t just important for thinking about art and music – they’re also crucial to understanding what motivates people politically and socially. We’ll  explore these issues and try to get inside one of the most difficult but rewarding bodies of 20th century theory: the ‘schizoanalysis’ of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. I’m going to stick my neck out and say that if there’s one pair of thinkers from the past hundred years who offer uniquely insightful ways of thinking about all of these issues, about the nature of power and the nature of change, and about the very question of what it means to be alive, then I think it’s Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Deleuze was arguably the most influential French philosopher of the late 20th century. Guattari was a militant psychotherapist, an early advocate of ‘queer’ politics’, a key figure in the run-up to the events of May 1968, a widely innovative thinker who ended up running as a Green candidate in regional elections shortly before his death in the early 90s. D&amp;Gs work is very difficult to read for the uninitiated because it draws on an obscure and idiosyncratic set of sources, and it has become normal in both the French and English-speaking worlds for it to become largely the preserve of academics and aesthetes. This is a shame, because once you get past the unique terminology (or rather, start to become accustomed to it), this really is one of the most powerful bodies of thought around for thinking about politics on every scale – the result of one of the most ambitious attempts to date to think about the relationships between psychic, the social, the physical and the political aspects of human (and non-human) experience. In particular D&amp;G have been taken up in various areas of the humanities and social sciences in recent years as theorists of ‘affect’ – of the emotional and bodily aspects of communication and social relationships. Again – this is a really important issue when thinking about all forms of political communication. When focus groups in Nuneaton say that they don’t like Corbyn because he just sort of looks and sounds wrong, they are not primarily responding to the things that he says, but in the way that he says them, in the tone of his voice and the way he seems to carry himself. This is all a question of ‘affect’ as much as it is a question of ‘framing’ or ‘meaning’. So…a lot to think about!

Can You Feel It? Deleuze & Guattari, Schizoanalysis, Affect

With Will Davies, and Jeremy Gilbert  What on Earth is happening to British politics, culture and society? What is at the root of the present crisis of political representation and objective knowledge? Should we care about the crisis of liberal democracy? Is the internet a powerful new tool of democratic engagement, or is it just driving everyone crazy? What are the causes of Brexit and what are the causes of Boris Johnson? These and other topics are discussed by Will Davies, author of The Limits of Neoliberalism and Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World and Jeremy Gilbert, author of Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism. https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/britains-nervous-breakdown.mp3

<h3>With <a href="https://www.gold.ac.uk/politics-and-international-relations/staff/davies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Will Davies, </a>and <a href="https://www.jeremygilbert.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jeremy Gilbert</a></h3> What on Earth is happening to British politics, culture and society? What is at the root of the present crisis of political representation and objective knowledge? Should we care about the crisis of liberal democracy? Is the internet a powerful new tool of democratic engagement, or is it just driving everyone crazy? What are the causes of Brexit and what are the causes of Boris Johnson? These and other topics are discussed by Will Davies, author of The Limits of Neoliberalism and Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World and Jeremy Gilbert, author of Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism. <a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/britains-nervous-breakdown.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/britains-nervous-breakdown.mp3</a>

Britain’s Nervous Breakdown: What is Actually Happening?

With Sarah Banet-Weiser and Sara R. Farris Once an insurgent movement against patriarchy, feminism now finds itself occupying a far more complex position in the world. Powerful institutions,  major corporations and almost all political parties – even the nationalist, xenophobic right – routinely pay lip-service to the goal of sexual equality. What are we to make of all this, and what remains to be done in the pursuit of women’s liberation? We’ll discuss these questions and more with Sarah Banet-Weiser, author of Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny, and Sara Farris, author of In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism.  https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/whose-empowerment.mp3

With <a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/academic-staff/sarah-banet-weiser" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sarah Banet-Weiser</a> and <a href="https://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/staff/farris-sara/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sara R. Farris</a> Once an insurgent movement against patriarchy, feminism now finds itself occupying a far more complex position in the world. Powerful institutions,  major corporations and almost all political parties – even the nationalist, xenophobic right – routinely pay lip-service to the goal of sexual equality. What are we to make of all this, and what remains to be done in the pursuit of women’s liberation? We’ll discuss these questions and more with Sarah Banet-Weiser, author of Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny, and Sara Farris, author of In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism.  <a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/whose-empowerment.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/whose-empowerment.mp3</a>

Whose Empowerment? Feminism, Neoliberalism and Nationalism

May 15th  2018   with Éric Alliez, Maurizio Lazzarato and Andrew Goffey Well be back at Doomed Gallery for this one but do arrive early and  / or be prepared to stand…last week’s session was packed and was in a considerably larger space.  This year also sees the publication of the English Edition of Lazzarato’s recent collaboration with philosopher Éric Alliez: Wars and Capital. Here is the blurb from the publishers catalogue: “We are at war,” declared the President of the French Republic on the evening of November 13, 2015. But what is this war, exactly? In Wars and Capital, Éric Alliez and Maurizio Lazzarato propose a counter-history of capitalism to recover the reality of the wars that are inflicted on us and denied to us. We experience not the ideal war of philosophers, but wars of class, race, sex, and gender; wars of civilization and the environment; wars of subjectivity that are raging within populations and that constitute the secret motor of liberal governmentality. By naming the enemy (refugees, migrants, Muslims), the new fascisms establish their hegemony on the processes of political subjectivation by reducing them to racist, sexist, and xenophobic slogans, fanning the flames of war among the poor and maintaining the total war philosophy of neoliberalism. Because war and fascism are the repressed elements of post-’68 thought, Alliez and Lazzarato not only read the history of capital through war but also read war itself through the strange revolution of ’68, which made possible the passage from war in the singular to a plurality of wars—and from wars to the construction of new war machines against contemporary financialization. It is a question of pushing “’68 thought” beyond its own limits and redirecting it towards a new pragmatics of struggle linked to the continuous war of capital. It is especially important for us to prepare ourselves for the battles we will have to fight if we do not want to be always defeated. In this seminar Éric and Maurizio will introduce and discuss some of the key arguments and ideas from this important new work. https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/war-capital.mp3

May 15th  2018 with<a href="http://www.kingston.ac.uk/staff/profile/professor-eric-alliez-417/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Éric Alliez,</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio_Lazzarato" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Maurizio Lazzarato</a> and Andrew Goffey Well be back at Doomed Gallery for this one but do arrive early and  / or be prepared to stand…last week’s session was packed and was in a considerably larger space. This year also sees the publication of the English Edition of Lazzarato’s recent collaboration with philosopher Éric Alliez: <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/wars-and-capital" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wars and Capital</a>. Here is the blurb from the publishers catalogue: “We are at war,” declared the President of the French Republic on the evening of November 13, 2015. But what is this war, exactly? In Wars and Capital, Éric Alliez and Maurizio Lazzarato propose a counter-history of capitalism to recover the reality of the wars that are inflicted on us and denied to us. We experience not the ideal war of philosophers, but wars of class, race, sex, and gender; wars of civilization and the environment; wars of subjectivity that are raging within populations and that constitute the secret motor of liberal governmentality. By naming the enemy (refugees, migrants, Muslims), the new fascisms establish their hegemony on the processes of political subjectivation by reducing them to racist, sexist, and xenophobic slogans, fanning the flames of war among the poor and maintaining the total war philosophy of neoliberalism. Because war and fascism are the repressed elements of post-’68 thought, Alliez and Lazzarato not only read the history of capital through war but also read war itself through the strange revolution of ’68, which made possible the passage from war in the singular to a plurality of wars—and from wars to the construction of new war machines against contemporary financialization. It is a question of pushing “’68 thought” beyond its own limits and redirecting it towards a new pragmatics of struggle linked to the continuous war of capital. It is especially important for us to prepare ourselves for the battles we will have to fight if we do not want to be always defeated. In this seminar Éric and Maurizio will introduce and discuss some of the key arguments and ideas from this important new work. <a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/war-capital.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/war-capital.mp3</a>

Wars and Capital

With Hilary Wainwright    PHOTO: TIM CRABTREE May 1968 saw an escalation of protests and political actions by students and workers in France, leading a situation of near-revolution that lasted for several weeks and re-set the terms of political debate for a generation. Although ‘the events of May’ are remembered as the most obvious and symbolic  expression of the revolutionary spirit in that moment, ‘May 1968’ was only one episode in an international series of events and struggles against  the bureaucratic cultures of post-war welfare capitalism and the Stalinist ‘socialism’ of the Soviet bloc, from the early 60s to the mid- 80s. This was the moment when the counterculture, student radicalism, Black Power  and a new wave or working class militancy coincided with a wave of global anti-imperial struggle and the birth of the women’s movement, the green movement and Gay Liberation. The consequence of these struggles, their partial defeats and limited victories have been colossal: arguably the adoption of neoliberal policies by governing elites across the globe was motivated as much as anything by the need to contain their demands for radical democracy and collective freedom. On the other hand, sceptics  have argued that the counterculture and the New Left undermined working class solidarity, ultimately paving the way for a postmodern culture of narcissism, hedonism and futile identity politics. The implications of these movements and the debates that they provoked were decisive and long-lasting  for the development of radical philosophy, political theory and cultural studies . What is the significance of this history for contemporary radicalism? And would it be accurate to say that ‘1968’ didn’t happen in Britain until 1982?… https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/hilaryjeremyon1968.mp3

With <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Wainwright" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hilary Wainwright</a> <h6>PHOTO: TIM CRABTREE</h6> May 1968 saw an escalation of protests and political actions by students and workers in France, leading a situation of near-revolution that lasted for several weeks and re-set the terms of political debate for a generation. Although ‘the events of May’ are remembered as the most obvious and symbolic  expression of the revolutionary spirit in that moment, ‘May 1968’ was only one episode in an international series of events and struggles against  the bureaucratic cultures of post-war welfare capitalism and the Stalinist ‘socialism’ of the Soviet bloc, from the early 60s to the mid- 80s. This was the moment when the counterculture, student radicalism, Black Power  and a new wave or working class militancy coincided with a wave of global anti-imperial struggle and the birth of the women’s movement, the green movement and Gay Liberation. The consequence of these struggles, their partial defeats and limited victories have been colossal: arguably the adoption of neoliberal policies by governing elites across the globe was motivated as much as anything by the need to contain their demands for radical democracy and collective freedom. On the other hand, sceptics  have argued that the counterculture and the New Left undermined working class solidarity, ultimately paving the way for a postmodern culture of narcissism, hedonism and futile identity politics. The implications of these movements and the debates that they provoked were decisive and long-lasting  for the development of radical philosophy, political theory and cultural studies . What is the significance of this history for contemporary radicalism? And would it be accurate to say that ‘1968’ didn’t happen in Britain until 1982?… <a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/hilaryjeremyon1968.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/hilaryjeremyon1968.mp3</a>

Democracy is in the Streets: Fifty Years of 1968

The Black Lives Matter movement has seen arguably the most significant revival of Black radicalism in the English-speaking world for many years. What has led to this situation and what are the political, historical and theoretical issues raised by it? Is ‘black’ still a meaningful term of political identification for non-white peoples outside the African diaspora? What is the legacy of slavery and colonialism in the contemporary West? Why is racism amongst police forces such a perpetually intractable problem, even in apparently liberal countries like the UK (is the very concept of policing, as Foucault seemed to suggest, itself just inherently racist?). How have new philosophies of materiality and embodied experience contributed to the understanding of ‘race’ as a historical and lived experience? What is the place of ‘black music’ in contemporary culture, 100 years in to the history of recorded sound, and what was been the historical relationship of music to black radicalism? https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/black-lives-matter.mp3

The Black Lives Matter movement has seen arguably the most significant revival of Black radicalism in the English-speaking world for many years. What has led to this situation and what are the political, historical and theoretical issues raised by it? Is ‘black’ still a meaningful term of political identification for non-white peoples outside the African diaspora? What is the legacy of slavery and colonialism in the contemporary West? Why is racism amongst police forces such a perpetually intractable problem, even in apparently liberal countries like the UK (is the very concept of policing, as Foucault seemed to suggest, itself just inherently racist?). How have new philosophies of materiality and embodied experience contributed to the understanding of ‘race’ as a historical and lived experience? What is the place of ‘black music’ in contemporary culture, 100 years in to the history of recorded sound, and what was been the historical relationship of music to black radicalism? <a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/black-lives-matter.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/black-lives-matter.mp3</a>

Black Lives Matter – ‘race’, bodies and biopolitics in the 21st century 

May 22nd 2018   With Sarah Bufkin and Alan Finlayson  The Brexit vote and Trump’s election both seem to mark a terminal crisis for the liberal cosmopolitan consensus that has obtained in the English-speaking world since the 1990s. In both cases, centrist elites have been quick to blame external agencies (Cambridge Analytica, Vladimir Putin, etc.), apparently unable to believe that it is the effects of their own  policies that have led to them losing significant levels of public support. At the same time, concerns over national identity, and hostility to multiculturalism and immigration, continue  to inform the politics of the Right in many ways: from the casual English xenophobia of UKIP the extreme racism of the alt-right. How can we make sense of all this and what can we do about it? https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/brexit-trump-alt-right.mp3 Suggested Reading: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n10/alan-finlayson/brexitism\

May 22nd 2018 With <a href="https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/3374" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sarah Bufkin</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Finlayson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alan Finlayson</a> The Brexit vote and Trump’s election both seem to mark a terminal crisis for the liberal cosmopolitan consensus that has obtained in the English-speaking world since the 1990s. In both cases, centrist elites have been quick to blame external agencies (Cambridge Analytica, Vladimir Putin, etc.), apparently unable to believe that it is the effects of their own  policies that have led to them losing significant levels of public support. At the same time, concerns over national identity, and hostility to multiculturalism and immigration, continue  to inform the politics of the Right in many ways: from the casual English xenophobia of UKIP the extreme racism of the alt-right. How can we make sense of all this and what can we do about it? <a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/brexit-trump-alt-right.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/brexit-trump-alt-right.mp3</a> Suggested Reading: <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n10/alan-finlayson/brexitism%5C" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n10/alan-finlayson/brexitism\</a>

Eyes Right: Trumpism, Brexit and the rise of the alt-right

The End Of Neoliberalism?    15th december: 10am-5pm Organised by  Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert Free, all welcome, no need to book Doors open 9:30, first-come first-served, limited capacity City university, college building, room a130 272-278 St John St, London EC1V 4PB Presented by The Centre for Culture and the Creative Industries at City, University of London &amp; The Centre for Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London In 2016, almost a decade after the worst financial crisis for eighty years, it seems there are signs that neoliberalism is finally in retreat. The ruling common sense of policy makers, economists, business people, and mainstream journalists on a global basis since the 1980s, neoliberalism had seemed all but indefatigable. Yet a series of signs today point towards a radical shift. From the rise of new populist political movements on the left and the right, to the seeming reversal of global trade, and the calamitous brexit vote in the uk, the existing state of neoliberal affairs is in a process of transition. Underpinning many of these indicators is a shift in political logic, from one which placed the market at the centre of human life, to one which is focused on preservation of the border. The questions that arise from this confluence of events are multiple:  Is this the end of neoliberalism, or a point of inflection towards a new mutation? Is neoliberalism merely equivalent to the process of globalisation, or not? Is this a global ‘hegemonic crisis’? What happens to existing neoliberal regimes and modes of governance once the border takes precedence over the market? Can this transformation be said to have been generated by neoliberalism itself? How is this shift inflected by particular local cultural, social, political, and economic conditions? Is the future one of ethno-nationalist fascism or some other form of authoritarianism? What does rising nationalism look like in an era of global technological communications? What are the prospects for contending this crisis from the left?  With: Christine Berry: principal director for policy &amp; government, New Economics Foundation. William Davies: reader in political economy at goldsmiths, university of london and author of The Limits Of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty And The Logic Of Competition. Sara Farris: senior lecturer in sociology at goldsmiths, university of london. She is currently a member of the editorial board of historical materialism and international book review editor for critical sociology. Alan Finlayson: professor of political and social theory at the university of east anglia. He is also chair of the editorial board of the political journal Renewal. Jeremy Gilbert: professor of cultural and political theory at the university of east london and the editor of New Formations. Jo Littler: reader in the centre for cultural industries in the dept of sociology, city, university of london. Her new book Against Meritocracy will be published next year. Catherine Rottenberg: marie sklodowska curie fellow in the sociology department, goldsmiths and senior lecturer in the department of foreign literatures and linguistics and the gender studies program, ben-gurion university of the negev, beer sheva, israel. Her most recent publication is “neoliberal feminism and the future of human capital” forthcoming in Signs. Alex williams: lecturer in the centre for culture and the creative industries, in the dept. of sociology at city, university of london. He is the author of Inventing The Future: Postcapitalism and A World Without Work. This podcast contains the audio from part one of the conference, the rest is in the following two posts / podcasts  (NB: we failed to record Alex’s bit. There’s still a lot of good stuff to listen to here though!) https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/is-neoliberalism-over-part-1.mp3

<h1>The End Of Neoliberalism?</h1> <h3></h3> <h4></h4> <h3>15th december: 10am-5pm</h3> Organised by  Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert Free, all welcome, no need to book Doors open 9:30, first-come first-served, limited capacity City university, college building, room a130 272-278 St John St, London EC1V 4PB Presented by <a href="http://www.city.ac.uk/arts-social-sciences/sociology/culture-creative-industries" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Centre for Culture and the Creative Industries at City, University of London</a> &amp; <a href="http://culturalstudiesresearch.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Centre for Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London</a> In 2016, almost a decade after the worst financial crisis for eighty years, it seems there are signs that neoliberalism is finally in retreat. The ruling common sense of policy makers, economists, business people, and mainstream journalists on a global basis since the 1980s, neoliberalism had seemed all but indefatigable. Yet a series of signs today point towards a radical shift. From the rise of new populist political movements on the left and the right, to the seeming reversal of global trade, and the calamitous brexit vote in the uk, the existing state of neoliberal affairs is in a process of transition. Underpinning many of these indicators is a shift in political logic, from one which placed the market at the centre of human life, to one which is focused on preservation of the border. The questions that arise from this confluence of events are multiple: <ul> <li>Is this the end of neoliberalism, or a point of inflection towards a new mutation?</li> <li>Is neoliberalism merely equivalent to the process of globalisation, or not?</li> <li>Is this a global ‘hegemonic crisis’?</li> <li>What happens to existing neoliberal regimes and modes of governance once the border takes precedence over the market?</li> <li>Can this transformation be said to have been generated by neoliberalism itself?</li> <li>How is this shift inflected by particular local cultural, social, political, and economic conditions?</li> <li>Is the future one of ethno-nationalist fascism or some other form of authoritarianism?</li> <li>What does rising nationalism look like in an era of global technological communications?</li> <li>What are the prospects for contending this crisis from the left?</li> </ul> With: Christine Berry: principal director for policy &amp; government, New Economics Foundation. William Davies: reader in political economy at goldsmiths, university of london and author of The Limits Of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty And The Logic Of Competition. Sara Farris: senior lecturer in sociology at goldsmiths, university of london. She is currently a member of the editorial board of historical materialism and international book review editor for critical sociology. Alan Finlayson: professor of political and social theory at the university of east anglia. He is also chair of the editorial board of the political journal Renewal. Jeremy Gilbert: professor of cultural and political theory at the university of east london and the editor of New Formations. Jo Littler: reader in the centre for cultural industries in the dept of sociology, city, university of london. Her new book Against Meritocracy will be published next year. Catherine Rottenberg: marie sklodowska curie fellow in the sociology department, goldsmiths and senior lecturer in the department of foreign literatures and linguistics and the gender studies program, ben-gurion university of the negev, beer sheva, israel. Her most recent publication is “neoliberal feminism and the future of human capital” forthcoming in Signs. Alex williams: lecturer in the centre for culture and the creative industries, in the dept. of sociology at city, university of london. He is the author of Inventing The Future: Postcapitalism and A World Without Work. This podcast contains the audio from part one of the conference, the rest is in the following two posts / podcasts  (NB: we failed to record Alex’s bit. There’s still a lot of good stuff to listen to here though!) <a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/is-neoliberalism-over-part-1.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/is-neoliberalism-over-part-1.mp3</a>

The End of Neoliberalism? (Part One)

with Anna Minton and Jacob Mukherjee  London’s housing market is in crisis because the global super-rich use our homes as piggy-banks and the government does nothing to stop them. Rent is becoming completely unaffordable (never mind buying a place). Gentrification is killing cultural venues all over the city, as overpriced flats crowd out the places where people gather to make some noise. At the heart of the city, the Corporation of the City of London is a law unto itself, and isn’t even democratically elected. The residents of Grenfell Tower have still not been re-housed. None of this is happening by accident, and none of it is going to change without a radical re-think of what London is for, and a radical challenge to the power of finance capital. In this session we’ll discuss these issues with two expert campaigners, and think about how they fit into the wider history of global neoliberalism. https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/the-right-to-the-city.mp3

with Anna Minton and Jacob Mukherjee London’s housing market is in crisis because the global super-rich use our homes as piggy-banks and the government does nothing to stop them. Rent is becoming completely unaffordable (never mind buying a place). Gentrification is killing cultural venues all over the city, as overpriced flats crowd out the places where people gather to make some noise. At the heart of the city, the Corporation of the City of London is a law unto itself, and isn’t even democratically elected. The residents of Grenfell Tower have still not been re-housed. None of this is happening by accident, and none of it is going to change without a radical re-think of what London is for, and a radical challenge to the power of finance capital. In this session we’ll discuss these issues with two expert campaigners, and think about how they fit into the wider history of global neoliberalism. <a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/the-right-to-the-city.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/the-right-to-the-city.mp3</a>

The Right to the City: politics, place and policy in neoliberal London

 with Debra Benita Shaw At a time when the meaning of democracy is challenged by the power of algorithms and the politics of misinformation what has become apparent is that the valorisation of data is the defining characteristic of contemporary digital capitalism. Big Data is sold on the basis of accurate retrieval; the promise that a series of perfect signals can be abstracted from the background noise of the world’s incessant uploading of information.Against this background, the rise of digital ‘glitch’ art is interesting in terms of how it privileges noise over signal and aestheticises error. Glitch artists randomly re-assort ordered sequences to demonstrate that order itself is arbitrary, contingent and open to transduction. In deliberately confounding the apparently smooth interface through which digital messages are received, the glitch aesthetic suggests a productive imagery for a politics which confronts the hierarchies embedded in and reproduced by digital culture.The recording of the packed seminar, that was also part of the 2018 London anti-university, didn’t come out well, so Debbie has recorded this podcast lecture for us.https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/glitch-art-politics.m4a

with <a href="https://www.uel.ac.uk/staff/s/debra-shaw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Debra Benita Shaw</a> At a time when the meaning of democracy is challenged by the power of algorithms and the politics of misinformation what has become apparent is that the valorisation of data is the defining characteristic of contemporary digital capitalism. Big Data is sold on the basis of accurate retrieval; the promise that a series of perfect signals can be abstracted from the background noise of the world’s incessant uploading of information.Against this background, the rise of digital ‘glitch’ art is interesting in terms of how it privileges noise over signal and aestheticises error. Glitch artists randomly re-assort ordered sequences to demonstrate that order itself is arbitrary, contingent and open to transduction. In deliberately confounding the apparently smooth interface through which digital messages are received, the glitch aesthetic suggests a productive imagery for a politics which confronts the hierarchies embedded in and reproduced by digital culture.The recording of the packed seminar, that was also part of the 2018 London anti-university, didn’t come out well, so Debbie has recorded this podcast lecture for us.<a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/glitch-art-politics.m4a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/glitch-art-politics.m4a</a>

Art, Glitch, Politics

Keir Milburn discusses his new book Generation Left with Lynne Segal, Jeremy Gilbert, and many others. For information about the culture, power, politics seminar series, go to: https://culturepowerpolitics.org. https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/generation-left.mp3

Keir Milburn discusses his new book Generation Left with Lynne Segal, Jeremy Gilbert, and many others. For information about the culture, power, politics seminar series, go to: <a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org.</a> <a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/generation-left.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/generation-left.mp3</a>

Generation Left

https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/how-did-we-get-here.mp3 with Natasha Nkonde, Deborah Grayson,  John Medhurst and Andy Beckett

<a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/how-did-we-get-here.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/how-did-we-get-here.mp3</a> with Natasha Nkonde, Deborah Grayson,  John Medhurst and Andy Beckett

How did we get here?  Forgotten Moments, Lost Leaders, and Remembering our Recent Radical Past

Sorry for the poor sound quality on the recording here – we’ve figured out the technical causes and should be back to normal next week! You should be able to find a video you can watch at http://www.antiuniversity.org/Culture-Power-Politics-course-2019 As the world moves online, politics does too. Despite anxieties about the dangers and limitations of ‘clicktivism’,  online organising has become an indispensable tool for actors on every part of the political spectrum: from independent activists to major political parties. Hacking, open-source development, mobile telephony, piracy and cryptography are indispensable tools for activists all over the world, and for individuals and communities facing power-imbalances of any kind.  What are the implications for democracy and citizenship in the 21st century, and what should we be doing about it?  We discuss  all this with Alex Worrad-Andrews, software-engineer and founder member of Common Knowledge (a workers cooperative dedicated to building digital infrastructure for grassroots non-representational politics), Paolo Gerbaudo, author of The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy and Amit S. Rai, author of Jugaad Time: Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India. https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/digital-politics.mp3

Sorry for the poor sound quality on the recording here – we’ve figured out the technical causes and should be back to normal next week! You should be able to find a video you can watch at <a href="http://www.antiuniversity.org/Culture-Power-Politics-course-2019" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.antiuniversity.org/Culture-Power-Politics-course-2019</a> As the world moves online, politics does too. Despite anxieties about the dangers and limitations of ‘clicktivism’,  online organising has become an indispensable tool for actors on every part of the political spectrum: from independent activists to major political parties. Hacking, open-source development, mobile telephony, piracy and cryptography are indispensable tools for activists all over the world, and for individuals and communities facing power-imbalances of any kind.  What are the implications for democracy and citizenship in the 21st century, and what should we be doing about it?  We discuss  all this with <a href="http://alexandrews.info/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alex Worrad-Andrews</a>, software-engineer and founder member of <a href="https://commonknowledge.coop/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Common Knowledge</a> (a workers cooperative dedicated to building digital infrastructure for grassroots non-representational politics), <a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/about/people" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paolo Gerbaudo</a>, author of The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy and <a href="https://www.qmul.ac.uk/busman/staff/raia.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amit S. Rai</a>, author of Jugaad Time: Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India. <a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/digital-politics.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/digital-politics.mp3</a>

Digital Politics

https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/where-are-going-the-politics-of-the-future.mp3 Where Are We Going? The Politics of the Future What kind of world are we heading into, and who gets to decide? Will artificially-intelligent robots be our masters? Will we be cyborgs ourselves? Are we already? What will happen to us once Chinese workers start demanding decent wages for making all the stuff we buy? Can the planet tolerate the levels of consumption we’ve got used to? Will technology save us or destroy us.? Are we already experiencing ‘post-capitalism’?  Are we already ‘post-human’? All this and more will be revealed in a special panel discussion with Debra Shaw, author of Technoculture, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, authors of Inventing the Future, and series convenor Jeremy Gilbert. 

<a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/where-are-going-the-politics-of-the-future.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/where-are-going-the-politics-of-the-future.mp3</a> Where Are We Going? The Politics of the Future What kind of world are we heading into, and who gets to decide? Will artificially-intelligent robots be our masters? Will we be cyborgs ourselves? Are we already? What will happen to us once Chinese workers start demanding decent wages for making all the stuff we buy? Can the planet tolerate the levels of consumption we’ve got used to? Will technology save us or destroy us.? Are we already experiencing ‘post-capitalism’?  Are we already ‘post-human’? All this and more will be revealed in a special panel discussion with Debra Shaw, author of Technoculture, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, authors of Inventing the Future, and series convenor Jeremy Gilbert.

Where Are We Going? The Politics of the Future

https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/multitude-metropolis-and-mayor.mp3 A discussion of the ideas of Hardt &amp; Negri and others in the Autonomist tradition, followed by a discussion of the ‘Take Back the City’ campaign for a people’s London, with two of its founders.

<a href="https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/multitude-metropolis-and-mayor.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://culturepowerpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/multitude-metropolis-and-mayor.mp3</a> A discussion of the ideas of Hardt &amp; Negri and others in the Autonomist tradition, followed by a discussion of the ‘Take Back the City’ campaign for a people’s London, with two of its founders.

The Multitude and the Metropolis

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