Check out Nex X Change Episode 1: ‘Lines on a Map’ featuring our own Les Back, Nirmal Puwar and Michaela Benson… Chapter 2: “The dream happens to him” Al Riddell and Harriet Onyett delve into a recent exhibition responding to the seminal 1975 book, A Seventh Man, by John Berger and Jean Mohr. The Migrating … Continue reading Nex X Change
Alberto Toscano has just published an article entitled ‘The World is Already Without Us’ in a special issue of Social Text around the work of Fredric Jameson. The article revisits the problematic of the cognitive mapping of capital by probing the affinity between two representational predicaments: the depopulated nature of images of human-altered landscapes in the “new … Continue reading Alberto Toscano on Fredric Jameson in ‘The World is Already Without Us’
Alberto Toscano has published an article, ‘After October, Before February: Figures of Dual Power’, in Fredric Jameson, An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army, edited by Slavoj Žižek, which features Jameson’s speculative, utopian challenge to contemporary leftist thought, followed by a host of responses. Continue reading After October, Before February: Figures of Dual Power
Today the Department was awarded for our efforts in upholding sustainable practices in the workplace by NUS Green Impact. Clare Lewis, who lead the department’s Green Impact Team, was presented with a bronze award (both pictured) by Space, Environment & Sustainability Officer, Nicola Hogan. Green Impact is an initiative set up by the NUS, with … Continue reading Sociology awarded Bronze in Green Impact!
Alberto Toscano has published a short article, ‘Liberalism Terminable and Interminable‘, as part of a symposium on Joseph Massad’s book Islam in Liberalism, which also includes Sara R. Farris’ intervention ‘The Cold War of Women and Islam‘. Both pieces feature responses by Massad. Continue reading Liberalism Terminable and Interminable
Whether amateur, professional or student, you are invited to submit up to 4 images that showcase your visual representation of the theme of the competition. Visit urbanphotofest.com for further details Continue reading UrbanPhotoFest Open: (re:) Thinking the Street
JOSEPH MASSAD’S NEW BOOK Islam in Liberalism is a welcome and timely intervention into one of the most pressing questions of our times: why does Islam occupy such a central inimical place within Western politics and ideology? Massad answers this question with a straightforward thesis: “Islam” as such does not exist. What has come to be … Continue reading The Cold War of Women and Islam
Sara Farris has a new article up over at darkmatter. Check it out – Dispossessing the Private Sphere? Civic Integration Policies and Colonial Legacies. Continue reading Dispossessing the Private Sphere? Civic Integration Policies and Colonial Legacies | darkmatter Journal
Through the Citizen Sense project led by Dr Jennifer Gabrys (Department of Sociology) Pennsylvania residents received digital pollution monitoring and analysis equipment and training. Many participants exposed worrying levels of air pollution from natural gas infrastructure near their homes in the vicinity of fracking sites. via US state invests $1.6m in pollution monitoring after Goldsmiths-led citizen research … Continue reading US state invests $1.6m in pollution monitoring after Goldsmiths-led citizen research exposes fracking danger, Goldsmiths, University of London
Auguste Comte, the French philosopher who, amongst other things, coined the term “sociology”, had a large mirror above his writing desk, so he could pause to admire himself as he wrote. There is perhaps no better symbolic image of academic vanity than Comte’s mirror. When I discovered this and shared it on Twitter, I received … Continue reading Is tweeting the modern equivalent of Comte staring into his mirror while he wrote?
