Tag: capital

• Arcades and Promenades

  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 […]

  James Kennell

  March 10, 2009

  arcades / promenades, seaside, Theory

  arcades, benjamin, capital, collaboration, economics, promenades, resorts, seaside, Theory

• More on the Marx revival

  Comedian / activist Mark Steel writes in the Independent yesterday about the resurgence of interest in Karl Marx that appears to be happening as the economic crisis gathers pace…. “Even Karl Marx himself is in vogue. Most papers have had articles about him in their business sections, commending his analysis of booms and slumps, and […]

  James Kennell

  March 5, 2009

  economic crisis, Marx, politics, Social Justice

  capital, credit crunch, David Harvey, economic crisis, economics, mark steel, Marx, Marxism

• ATLAS 2008

  This is a slideshare version of the presentation I gave last Thursday at the ATLAS 2008 conference in Brighton, UK.

  James Kennell

  July 5, 2008

  art, public art, regeneration, Tourism

  Add new tag, bourdieu, capital, conference, Folkestone, presentations, regeneration