Great turn out last night. One of the best debates so far I think. Certainly heated at times The fact that we were still there when the pub closed…. Thanks to all of you (old and new faces) who managed to get off Facebook for a moment and engage face to face with some really important issues. Jeremy Gilbert was excellent.
Tag: Jeremy Gilbert
If you’re in the UK why not spend this Bank Holiday weekend in UKIP-on-Sea?
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If you’re in the UK why not spend this Bank Holiday weekend in UKIP-on-Sea?
The showman has been in town…
Pulling in the desiring crowds
WTF!
Well, we’re hoping that an alternative voice in Essex can be heard amid the din of far right populism…
Where is the Common Ground? Making Local Activism Work in Southend
3rd May, 2015 at 8pm
Free entry
Upstairs at the Railway Hotel, Southend-on-Sea
http://www.railwayhotelsouthend.co.uk/
The General Election on May 7th is occurring against a backdrop of relentless austerity, food poverty, tax evasion and scapegoating of groups without access to the mainstream media that marginalizes them.
Is there an alternative to this politics of despair, and if so, is collective activism the answer? Is Essex man Russell Brand right when he tells us that the system is broken and what we accept as ‘common sense’ has been imposed on us? On one hand, events in Greece and Spain show that collective responses to inequality are working. On the other hand, there is the anti-European, anti-immigration stance of populists like UKIP and Le Front National in France, whose appeal seems to resonate with the mythologized ‘man in the street’.
This pre-election CCT special event explores alternative ways of thinking critically about our everyday political lives and considers the effectiveness of collective activism. We’ll discuss what can be done at the local level to make a difference and what kind of differences ‘we’ want by first thinking about who ‘we’ are – a collective political force or fragmented individual consumers?
We ask you to contemplate the idea of the common ground and critically explore related concepts like neoliberalism, individuality, crowds, publics, multiplicities, collectivity, and of course, democracy.
Programme
8pm start
Introduction by Andrew Branch
8.10pm
Tony D. Sampson (author of Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks): Crowds, Publics and Desire.
8.30pm
Giles Tofield (Director of The Cultural Engine): Finding Common Ground – Southend.
8.50pm
Q&A Chaired by Andrew Branch followed by break for drinks
9.20pm
Special guest speaker Professor Jeremy Gilbert (author of Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in the Age of Individualism): The Common Ground
10pm
Discussion chaired by Andrew Branch
Dr Tony D Sampson
Reader in Digital Culture and Communications
School of Arts and Digital Industries
UEL
Homepage: http://www.uel.ac.uk/research/profiles/adi/tonysampson/
Blog: http://www.viralcontagion.wordpress.com
Club Critical Theory: https://clubcriticaltheory.wordpress.com/
UKIP on Canvey Island :-(
UKIP were back in force on Canvey Island on Saturday – posters everywhere… black shirts on the high street. Perhaps a good time to recall these words…
“The major enemy, the strategic adversary is fascism. And not only historical fascism, the fascism of Hitler and Mussolini—which was able to mobilize and use the desire of the masses so effectively—but also the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behaviour, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”
Come to Club Critical Theory on Sunday 3rd May – 8pm start.
Upstairs at the Railway Hotel, Southend-on-Sea (near Southend Central Station)
Guest speaker Jeremy Gilbert
Also, Tony D Sampson and Giles Tofield (chair Andrew Branch)
Next Club Critical Theory Event 3rd May (Bank Holiday Weekend) Pre-election Special
Pleased to confirm that Jeremy Gilbert (Common Ground) will be our special guest speaker at this event…
Caspar Melville (SOAS), Baroness Lola Young and Jeremy Gilbert (UEL) on Stuart Hall
Duration:
28 minutes
First broadcast:
Wednesday 12 February 2014
In memory of Stuart Hall: a special programme paying tribute to the leading cultural theorist and former director of the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies. A pioneer of ‘multiculturalism’, he documented the changing character of ‘post Imperial’ British society. Laurie Taylor is joined by Caspar Melville, Lecturer in Global Creative and Cultural Industries at SOAS, Baroness Lola Young and Jeremy Gilbert, editor of the journal, New Formations.
Vernaculars of Neoliberalism
Vernaculars of Neoliberalism
King’s College London
7 Nov, 6-8pm followed by wine reception
Strand Campus: K2.31
Free event but registration required
Speakers: Paul Gilroy, Jeremy Gilbert, Jane Elliott, Ziad Elmarsafy
Chair: Clare Birchall
Despite optimistic declarations to the contrary in the heady days of 2007-8, neoliberalism has survived the recent financial crisis. This event draws together speakers who look to different social and cultural, macro and micro articulations of neoliberalism to explain its hold. This evening’s debate will consider singular genres and vernaculars of neoliberalism and the way they each speak to, and produce particular subjectivities.
Please advertise to friends and colleagues, but note that spaces are limited and people must register by signing up at: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/worldwide/initiatives/global/nas/news-and-events/events/Venaculars-of-Neoliberalism-form.aspx
Strand Campus: K2.31
This event has been jointly organised by the Institute of North American Studies and the English Department.
VIRALITY 