darkmatter Journal

Paul Gilroy carries a lot of symbolic weight. In our transnational academic milieu, Gilroy’s status as a superstar professor overdetermines his writing, forcing a peculiar disjuncture between the character of his project and the expectations of his eager audience. While Gilroy speaks of a poststructural cultural politics, he is too often forced into the position of custodian or leader that sometimes rubs up uncomfortably with his analysis…

Here in Britain, the widespread scandal of MPs fiddling their expenses looks like it’s going to play a significant role in determining voter behaviour in the European and local government elections on June 4.

This contribution is a reflection, conversation and debate between two people struggling to understand their own prejudices and interrogate the meaning of anti-racist politics. Acknowledging our own positions of privilege, we see ourselves as embodying whiteness: Dinesh as an Indian…

1. A Goan village

let’s see. when we came in there was a huge number of brits and some rich indians and a few backpackers, still very few tranceheads. so it wasn’t entirely sure whether it would get to

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In this article I want to think not about the materiality of race, but about the material dimensions of race theory. In particular, I want to consider as material the relationship between race theory and an anti-racist politics in contemporary…

Review of: Kester Aspden (2007) Nationality: Wog – The Hounding of David Oluwale, London: Jonathan Cape

This is an important, even ‘must-read’ book for anyone interested in the history of crime in the UK, especially if that crime has…

A Transatlantic Dialogue with David Goldberg (Humanities Research Institute, University of California) and Paul Gilroy (Sociology, London School of Economics) – 29th June 2007

A dialogue with Ettiene Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra et al – hosted by Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP), Dept of Sociology, Goldsmiths.

Before rehearsing those wonderfully myopic arguments about the internet as a space of unlimited freedoms beyond censorship, it’s worth bearing in mind the corporate nature of social networking sites like Facebook. Though you might not consider the ethics of corporate…

While it is a relief to us all that the British National Party failed to make significant gains in last Thursday’s local elections in England and Scotland, it’s disturbing to find a growing acceptance of the Party amongst political commentators. Often hedging…

…people are fascinated, terrified and fascinated by this indifference of the Nothing-to-see, of the Nothing-to-say…

Such was the reckoning of Big Brother propounded in a late lecture by the freshly dead Jean Baudrillard. His words are familiar, his argument quite…

A collection of papers of the Creating Collectivities/Doing Transnational Politics panel presented at the European Social Forum ESF 2004, 16th Oct, Alexander Palace, London. Organised by Feminist Review in collaboration with SCONVEGNO, NextGenderation, BSA Race Forum, and the Torina…