MARXISM IN CULTURE

PROGRAMME FOR AUTUMN TERM 2010

Friday 15 October
Capitalism 2.0: Peer Production, Intellectual Property & Juridification Processes Online
Anne Baron (London School of Economics)

Friday 05 November
Amongst the Ruins of Trier: Marx’s Materialism in the Shadow of the Roman Empire
Edith Hall (Royal Holloway University of London)

Friday 26 November
Marketing Theory, Critical Reflexivity & Ideology
Alan Bradshaw (Royal Holloway University of London)

Friday 17 December
The Marxism of Raymond Williams
Peter Thomas (Brunel University)

All seminars start at 5.30pm, and are held in the Wolfson Room (unless otherwise indicated) at the Institute of Historical Research in Senate House, Malet St, London. The seminar closes at 7.30pm and retires to the bar.

Organisers: Matthew Beaumont, Warren Carter, Gail Day, Steve Edwards, Maggie Gray, Owen Hatherley, Esther Leslie, David Mabb, Antigoni Memou, Nina Power, Pete Smith & Alberto Toscano.

For further information, contact Warren Carter, at: w.carter@ucl.ac.uk or Esther Leslie at: e.leslie@bbk.ac.uk

Friday 11 June
“A montage of realism”: Sekula’s Fish Story and Marx’s Capital
Simon Constantine (University of Leeds)

All seminars start at 5.30pm, and are held in the Wolfson Room at the Institute of Historical Research in Senate House, Malet St, London. The seminar closes at 7.30pm and retires to the bar.

For further information, contact Esther Leslie at: e.leslie@bbk.ac.uk

friday 28 may

Photography in May ‘68
Antigoni Memou (University of East London)

All seminars start at 5.30pm, and are held in the Wolfson Room at the Institute of Historical Research in Senate House, Malet St, London. The seminar closes at 7.30pm and retires to the bar.

‘Marxism in Culture’ seminar, Friday 30 April, Wolfson Room, Institute for Historical Research, Senate House, London at 5.30.

No End & No Beginning: Pop, Periodization, Problems c. 1989

Joshua Clover (University of California, Davis)

‘Marxism in Culture’ seminars next Friday 26 March, in the Wolfson Room at the usual time 5.30.

Shaftesbury’s Theory of Art: Substance and Identity

Richard Checketts (Victoria & Albert Museum & Royal College of Art)

PROGRAMME FOR SUMMER TERM 2010

Friday 30 April
No End & No Beginning: Pop, Periodization, Problems c. 1989
Joshua Clover (University of California, Davis)

Friday 14 May
Symposium on Frederic Jameson
Matthew Beaumont (University College London), Gail Day (Leeds University), Nina Power (Roehampton University), and Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths)
This seminar starts at the earlier time of 4.00pm

Friday 28 May
Photography in May ‘68
Antigoni Memou (University of East London)

Friday 11 June
“A montage of realism”: Sekula’s Fish Story and Marx’s Capital
Simon Constantine (University of Leeds)

All seminars start at 5.30pm, and are held in the Wolfson Room (unless otherwise indicated) at the Institute of Historical Research in Senate House, Malet St, London. The seminar closes at 7.30pm and retires to the bar.

Organisers: Matthew Beaumont, Warren Carter, Gail Day, Steve Edwards, Maggie Gray, Owen Hatherley, Andrew Hemingway, Esther Leslie, David Mabb, Antigoni Memou, Nina Power, Pete Smith, & Alberto Toscano.

For further information, contact Andrew Hemingway, at:
a.hemingway@ucl.ac.uk or Esther Leslie at: e.leslie@bbk.ac.uk

The Marxism in Culture reading group will resume its monthly meetings on Friday the 12th of February 2010 at 5.30. The group meets on Friday evenings in SR5 at the UCL History of Art Department, 20-21 Gordon Square, and discusses key texts, both historical and contemporary, that bear on Marxist aesthetics and radical cultural theory and practice more generally. Thus far, we have discussed texts by Marx and Engels, Lukacs, Brecht, Adorno, Bensaid, Eagleton, Debord, and Retort, to name just a few.

In our first organizational meeting we will aim to discuss exactly how we constitute the group; organizational issues; and, most importantly, potential readings.

If you are interested in participating then please contact Antigoni Memou at: antigonimemou@yahoo.co.uk

Best Wishes,

Warner Carter, Maggie Gray, Antigoni Memou

Friday 22 January
Discussion of the film Venezuela from Below
Gail Day (University of Leeds)

Friday 26 February
Marxism & Orientalism
Gilbert Achcar (School of Oriental & African Studies)

Friday 5 March
Advertising and the Politics of Aesthetics
Michael Sayeau (University College London)

Friday 26 March
Shaftesbury’s Theory of Art: Substance and Identity
Richard Checketts (Royal College of Art)

All seminars start at 5.30pm, and are held in the Wolfson Room (unless otherwise indicated) at the Institute of Historical Research in Senate House, Malet St, London. The seminar closes at 7.30pm and retires to the bar.

Organisers: Matthew Beaumont, Warren Carter, Gail Day, Steve Edwards, Maggie Gray, Owen Hatherley, Andrew Hemingway, Esther Leslie, David Mabb, Antigoni Memou, Nina Power, Pete Smith, & Alberto Toscano.

For further information, contact Andrew Hemingway, at:
a.hemingway@ucl.ac.uk or Esther Leslie at: e.leslie@bbk.ac.uk

All seminars start at 5.30pm, and are held in the Wolfson Room at the Institute of Historical Research in Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU.

The seminar closes at 7.30pm and retires to a bar.

Dmitry Vilensky & Alexei Penzin from Chto delat/What is to be done?
Lecture: Tuesday December 1st at 6.00pm
Small Hall / Cinema (to the side of Loafers)
Richard Hoggart Building
Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London SE14 6NW

Chto delat/What is to be done? was founded in 2003 in Petersburg by a group of artists, critics, philosophers and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism. Since then, Chto delat has been publishing an English-Russian newspaper on issues central to engaged culture, with a special focus on the relationship between a repoliticization of Russian intellectual culture and its broader international context. Their last major exhibition was seen as part of the Istanbul Biennale.

Further information is available here

Organised by Marxism in Culture and the Micropolitics Research Group, Goldsmiths and supported by the Open University.