What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire?[1]
The Thugs were bored. Episode 7 [Season 5] failed to move them.
“Too slow,” griped Shine
“They’re making us wait,” said Orlando.
“See, that’s when this stuff gets unreal.
…
Call for Papers – Special issue of International Journal of Žižek Studies http://zizekstudies.org/
Guest Editors: Ashwani Sharma ash.disorient@gmail.com and Valerie Hill val.hill@coventry.ac.uk
The notion of race is routinely invoked in contemporary academia while at the same time its analysis is…
I was about to comment on this US print advert for a new Intel computer chip, when after complaints of racism, Intel have apologized and pulled the offending ad.
This is Intel’s statement on their…
The upcoming Cultural Studies Now conference at the University of East London will be a major event examining the critical productivity of Cultural Studies as a discipline and political project. The conference raises a number of key issues:
‘Cultural Studies,…
This review of the ‘Materialism Today’ conference is the first post of my new theory blog tabula rasa
It seems timely to start this theory blog after attending the recent Materialism Today conference in London. The event, if nothing else,…
Boxed In is a recent essay by Sonya Dyer under the Manifesto Club banner. It is a rather predictable critique of public funding of black arts and artists. The core of the well-versed argument is that racially targeted state funding…
The banality of the UK Celebrity Big Brother (CBB) reality television show prepared no one for the global media spectacle of the fracas between the b-list Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty and the d(?)-list British super-ignoramus Jade Goody.[1] To debate whether…
A guide to the Schema:
This is a diagrammatic mapping of the racial logic of Celebrity Big Brother (CBB). Reworking Lacan’s schema from Seminar XX Encore it outlines the relationship of the three registers that structure human subjectivity:
Imaginary…
This is an interview with Michael Hardt conducted by Nate (crashcourse666@gmail.com) originally for Greenpepper Magazine in October 2006. The interview productively addresses a range of key concepts in Hardt (and Negri’s) thinking – multitude, democracy, immaterial labour, resistance – and…
Hip-Hop has emerged as a serious area of study in the US. This article in the San Francisco Chronicle – ACADEMIC HIP-HOP? YES, YES Y’ALL by Reyhan Harmanci gives a useful overview of the rise of Hip-Hop studies in the…
This is a short article on racism and mental health in The Guardian (2 April 2007). The author succinctly argues that the continuing high levels of psychotic illness in people of African and Caribbean origin in the UK is of…
A list of essential cricket books to read while watching the World Cup:
C.L.R. James (2005)[1963] Beyond a Boundary, Yellow Jersey Press, New Ed. Press
Ashis Nandy (1990) The Tao of Cricket, Penguin Books
Mike Marquese (2005) Anyone But England:…
Celina De León highlights blogging as a racialized space in a recent article of USA located ColorLines – the national newsmagazine on race and politics
Professor Mahmood Mamdani makes a well argued critique of ‘humanitarian intervention’ and the continuation of the ‘civilising mission’ in Dafur in the LRB
In a recent talk at the the LSE it was interesting to see how many in the…
‘Living Apart Together: British Muslims and the Paradox of
Multiculturalism’ [PDF file] – published by Policy Exchange
Has anyone read this recent report? It was quite high profile in the media. It might be useful to discuss further given…
See Jovert vol 1.2 1997 for a review of the following texts on Fanon:
“Finding Fanon: Critical Genealogies,” conference held at New York University, October 11-12, 1996.
Lewis R. Gordon, Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essav on…
Review of Anthony C. Alessandrini (ed) (1998) Franz Fanon – Critical Perspectives, Routledge.[1]
Since his untimely death at the age of 36 in 1961, the Martinician-born psychiatrist, writer and revolutionary Frantz Fanon has become something of a looming spectre…
Article by Richard Keller from the Journal of Social History (12/22/2001)
Recent BB events show that Britain remains essentially a racist society in denial. Wasn’t the popular media ‘anti-racist’ response in fact a disavowal of racism as a lived reality? A collection of external links below:
British society is dripping in…
