Videos off-line
17 Nov 2013Unfortunately, the majority of videos on our darkmatter site are currently off-line. We are working on a fix. Thanks for your patience.
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The Stuart Hall Project (2013) (John Akomfrah – Smoking Dogs Films)
18 Jul 2013“With deepest gratitude and respect” - If there is a moment when the pieces of Akomfrah's The Stuart Hall Project fall into place, it is with this closing note. Gratitude and respect...
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“My measurement of race is rate of vibration”: Afrofuturism and the ‘molecularization’ of race
29 Nov 2012This article{{1}} will suggest a possible take on the notion of ‘post-race’ by looking at the relation between race and new media as it is delineated in the theoretical and aesthetical productions of Afrofuturism – a conceptual area developed at the intersection between afrodiasporic...
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Reviews
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship by Claire BishopReview: Claire Bishop (2012) Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship, London and New York: Verso. 382pp. ISBN: 978 1 84467 690 3.
When Sartre concluded that “hell is other people”, he meant to convey that the…
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The Making of Berlin’s Humboldt-Forum: Negotiating History and the Cultural Politics of PlaceAfter more than 15 years of intense public debate about the future of the Spree Island and the Palace Square (Schlossplatz) in Berlin, the German Bundestag decided in July 2002 for the much-contested reconstruction of the historical Prussian city palace.…
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Stuart Hall in conversation with Les Back [audio]The conversation was published in 2009 in a special edition of Cultural Studies dedicated to Stuart’s life and work. The advantage of the recording available here for the first time is that the listener can access aspects of Stuart’s style of intellectual dialogue that cannot be transposed to the page.
