I’ve just posted about ‘the fantasy of cultural history’ and cultural materialism on the arcades/promenades blog. Wesley has also posted a photo-essay that takes its cue from Brighton’s promenade. “…fashion…this semblance of the new is reflected, like one mirror in another, in the semblance of the ever recurrent. The product of this reflection is the… [Read more…]
March 10, 2009
Along with Wesley Rykalski, I have just embarked on an online project that seeks to examine the role of the seaside promenade in the imagination and practices of late modernity, through a critical encounter with Walter Benjamin‘s ‘The Arcades Project’. In his final project, Benjamin was attempting to critique the ‘bourgeois experience of nineteenth century… [Read more…]
January 2, 2009
Over at this blog you can watch, listen to, download or subscribe to a series of lectures given by David Harvey on Marx’s ‘Capital’. This is a great resource of video lectures by one of the world’s most important Marx scholars. There is something of a Marx revival going on at the moment as a… [Read more…]
October 23, 2008
Andy Miah’s new book, ‘Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty’, is being launched with a day long conference at F.A.C.T. in Liverpool on 30th October. “The book is a major, design-led publication, consisting of 25 Chapters by artists, bioethicists, sociologists, designers and philosophers. These are accompanied by 250+ images from leading artists and designers.”. … [Read more…]
October 21, 2008
I will be giving a paper at the 2nd ITSA bi-annual conference on “Globalisation, mega-events and tourism”, 6-9th November in Shanghai. The paper is the latest output from the research I have been carrying out with a colleague, Nikki MacLeod, into the Cultural Olympiad of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In this paper, we… [Read more…]
July 23, 2008
i was interviewed by Lars Wieneke at the ATLAS 2008 conference last month – you can view it via youtube below:
May 20, 2008
This presentation explains some research that a colleague and I are carrying out into the Cultural Olympiad being planned for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games. It contains some brief notes on a memetic framework we are developing as a way of engaging with the Cultural Olympiad as an evolving system with a heritage and a future… [Read more…]
April 10, 2008
Wesley has a great post over at Media Readings about Boris Johnson and his campaign to be Mayor of London. Wesley reads Boris through Baudrillard’s theories of simulation and hyper-reality in a way that situates Boris within a hyper-real fantasy of celebrity: “Boris then is a simulacra in that he is a simulation of so… [Read more…]
March 28, 2008
Alan Badiou has written an essay in the New Left Review this month called ‘After Sarkozy’, which slots into the current glut of TV programmes, radio shows and newspaper journalism examining the events and legacy of the political and cultural movements that came to the fore in 1968. The aim of this essay appears to… [Read more…]
January 26, 2008
In 1971, Chomsky and Foucault debated human nature on Dutch TV – these are the youtube videos of the debate.
 | stevenboxall on A Sporting Chance: the legacie… |
 | James Kennell on Rediscovering cultural tourism… |
 | aim investment manag… on The Future of UK Tourism: Deve… |
 | ejay100565 on Rediscovering cultural tourism… |
 | Laurence Dorian on Tourism and Local Economic Dev… |
 | Abi on Rediscovering cultural tourism… |
| James Kennell on Publications |
 | ELIZABETH on Publications |
 | Adam on Rediscovering cultural tourism… |
 | Charlotte Slater on Rediscovering cultural tourism… |
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June 23, 2009
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