Tag: Brighton

• Cities outlook 2010: the seaside

  I’m going to be appearing on the BBC1 TV programme ‘The Politics Show South East’ on Sunday 14th February.  I’ve been invited on to discuss the role of regeneration spending in seaside towns, for an article that has been prompted by the publication of the Centre For Cities ‘Cities Outlook 2010’ report. The Centre for Cities are a […]

  James Kennell

  February 8, 2010

  cultural regeneration, economic crisis, regeneration, seaside

  Brighton, coastal, cultural regeneration, economic crisis, hastings, regeneration, seaside

• New arcades/promenades post

  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 […]

  James Kennell

  June 23, 2009

  arcades / promenades, seaside, Theory, walter benjamin

  Brighton, coastal, collaboration, Marxism, seaside, Theory