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Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century – Review
The central question of Escape Routes sounds quite simple: ‘How does social transformation begin?’ But the answer that the book provides is provocative and contests many dominant explanations of social change: according to the authors it is not the brimming revolutionary events occupying the imagination of the left that capture the mechanics of social transformation but the seemingly ‘insignificant occurrences of people’s daily actions’.
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The Informational University, the Uneven Distribution of Expertise and the Racialization of LabourThis essay revisits Marc Bousquet’s insight that the flexibilization of labour is at the centre of the informatization of the university as it embraces the force of neoliberal regimes. This orientation of labour around processes of informatization draws on work undertaken by various researchers…
Commons
Policy and PlanningThe hope that Cornel West wrote about in Social Text in 1984 was not destined to become policy in 2008. The ones who practiced it, within and against the grain of every imposed contingency, always had a plan.
Reviews
The Infidel – an East End ‘skin flick’Earlier this year, walking the south side of Whitechapel High Street in London’s East End I passed an advertisement for the cinematic release of the film The Infidel. Staring at me from a poster on the side of a bus stop was the film’s hero Omid Djalili. A curious figure he’s presented as cultural confusion embodied.
Interviews
Mapping Fashion, Cities, Identities and the World Fashion ConquestIn her first solo show, WESSIELING presented ‘Mapping Motifs: An exploratory journey through fashion, cities and identities’ at the AVA Gallery in London. The work comprised six Chinese dresses (qipao); otherwise identical, each dress had the fashionable streets of different fashion metropolises printed on the textile.
