Final seminar of term:
'Old Materialism: making gold and performing money in pre-modern London and Venice' with Alison Wright (@uclhistoryofart.bsky.social)
26 June, 5.30–7.30pm
@ucl-ias.bsky.social Common Ground, G11, ground floor, South Wing UCL, Gower St, WC1E 6BT
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For a mark of the extent of creeping fascism consider that in a week of endless repetition of far-right's 'two tier' policing horseshit, mainstream media totally ignored targeted arson on socialist Muslim politician's family home. Solidarity
@SalmaYaqoob
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
Very useful insight into the broader impacts of US and Israeli military adventurism in Iran, from Adam Hanieh in this weekend’s FT.
archive.ph/TBO31
And we’re back. Join us for our first seminar of summer term:
Diary of a Vandalized Car
Dominique Routhier (@routhier.bsky.social)
Friday 24 April, 5.30pm
@ucl-ias.bsky.social
Common Ground G11, South wing, UCL, Gower St, WC1E 6BT
All welcome. No booking required.
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David Hockney, 1937-2026
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972
A Lawn Being Sprinkled, 1967
Portrait Surrounded by Artistic Devices, 1965
Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Alison Wright (UCL). Her paper questions the adequacy of new materialist ethics in the face of the all-too-human assertion and coercion at play in ‘making’ ...
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Arsonists appear to have singled out 'politically involved' city family of activist Salma Yaqoob, setting a car alight outside the family home
Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Dominique Routhier (Roskilde University). His talk traces the “decline and fall” of American civilization through the decomposition of its most emblematic f...
And we’re there! The venal, bullying Blairites that ruled Lambeth as their fiefdom, gleefully implemented round after round of cuts and outsourcing, refused democratic accountability, and speculated on the future of our estates while destroying residents’ lives have been routed. Good riddance 🇵🇸🚩
Enjoyed this review of what seems (problems around imperialist 'decolonial' cosplay notwithstanding) a fascinating exhibition.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Beatriz González at the Barbican - catch it while you can!
Marxism in Culture
Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann
Marxism in Culture
Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann
Capitalist Power in Post-War Croydon.
New post in which I discuss the network of business people & local politicians behind Croydon's concrete building boom.
tamills1981.github.io/society-from...
Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann
Lam referred to a ‘desire to include in my painting all the transculturation that had occurred in Cuba’ – using a...
