Book launch at Goldsmiths, University of London Venue : Ben Pimlott Building’s lecture theatre Date : Friday the 14th of October 2016 Time : 4 – 5.30 PM Social sciences are inherently fascinated by difference. Often departing from relatively central positions, geographers, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and others are attracted by the margins as […] via … Continue reading Rethinking Life at the Margins — Streetsigns
Alberto Toscano has written a short essay following up some of the themes of his book Cartographies of the Absolute (with Jeff Kinkle), entitled ‘Opaque Epiphanies’. This is for the exhibition ‘I stood before the source’, opening soon in Toronto at the Blackwood Gallery. The essay is freely available in the catalogue. Continue reading Opaque Epiphanies
This article by Professor Les Back reviews some of the key political interventions by black and Asian theorists on the migrant experience and the politics of culture. Stressing the political dimensions of this work, it argues for a reconnection to the interventions made by Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy who introduced a repertoire of theoretical … Continue reading Moving Sounds, Controlled Borders Asylum and the Politics of Culture
Les Back and Shamser Sinha have co-authored an article that argues that the idea of multicultural tools is the best way to approach the understanding of conviviality. Continue reading Multicultural Conviviality in the Midst of Racism’s Ruins
A New book by Charlotte Bates, Rob Imrie, and Kim Kullman, has just published: As an increasingly urbanised world is seeking to deal with recent social, natural and technological changes, ‘Care and Design: Bodies, Buildings, Cities’ explores how concepts and practices of care can cultivate more responsive forms of design that attend to the fragile relations that … Continue reading Care and Design: Bodies, Buildings, Cities
The burkini bans have ignited fierce debate in France and worldwide, while opinion polls suggested most French people backed the bans for reasons of secularism, or laïcité. Sara R. Farris, Senior Lecture in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, examines the fundamentalism of laïcité. http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2817-secularism-is-the-fundamentalist-religion-of-france Continue reading Secularism Is The Fundamentalist Religion of France
A recent report into the place of religion in public life presented a gloomy picture of the relationship between media and religion. Whilst media misrepresentations usually concern Muslims, the most vocal complainers are Christians. Abby Day argues the reason for this may lie in more fundamental, ancient and even ontological concerns. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/religionpublicsphere/2016/08/the-conflict-between-religion-and-media-has-deep-roots/ Continue reading The conflict between religion and media has deep roots
Alberto Toscano has published a blog post on ‘Giorgio Agamben’s Political Paradigm’ for a Stanford University Press hosted symposium on the Italian philosopher’s Homo Sacer project. The post focuses on his book Stasis and its conceptualisation of civil war. Continue reading Alberto Toscono publishes new blog post
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
