This is an excerpt from a seminar I gave in Vienna in which I explore some of the problems and possibilities of applying psychoanalytic concepts and insghts to understanding and tackling the culture of popular racism. … [Read more...] about Race, Ethnicity and the Unconscious
May/June Blog – Living the Dream : a Letter from Paris
Forty five years after the May ‘evenements’ in Paris I took my grandchildren to Euro-Disney for their half term holiday break. To bracket the most determined assault on the ‘Society of the Spectacle’ with the most extravagant expression of its triumph might seem wilfully perverse, at best a rueful acknowledgement that capitalism has succeeded, beyond our wildest … [Read more...] about May/June Blog – Living the Dream : a Letter from Paris
Lights on for the Territory
The Citizens Atlas project has developed out of a narrative map produced by John Wallet for a book about East London and the Olympics by Phil Cohen published in March 2013. ( link?).The map itself includes a ‘Hall of Fame’ and depicts the cultural and political geography of the area, both in the past and present, with a nod in the direction of Iain Sinclair. The film (see … [Read more...] about Lights on for the Territory
Olympic Site Visit – March 2013
I recently took some pictures on a visit to the Olympic Park which is now being transformed for post Olympic purposes. Below is a gallery of the site. More information about the construction of the site can be found here: http://constructionandthegames.com … [Read more...] about Olympic Site Visit – March 2013
April Blog On Translating politics
ON TRANSLATING POLITICS For DNS What sounded fresh once may sound hackneyed later; what was once current may someday sound quaint. To seek the essence of such changes, as well as the equally constant changes in meaning, in the subjectivity of posterity rather than in the very life of language and its works, would mean - even allowing for the crudest psychologism - to … [Read more...] about April Blog On Translating politics