Throughout the nineteeenth century, the association of heroic forms of masculinity with manual work was adumbrated less through political rhetoric than through biblical imagery and also in aesthetics of labour developed by the painters and photographers of the first industrial revolution. We will look briefly at each in turn. View the full text here: Phil Cohen … [Read more...] about Depicting the Gospel of Work: From Moralised Landscape to Mechanical Reproduction
The Cultural Olympiad: Carrying the Torch for Art?
This text explores the cultural politics and poetics of the London Olympics. It begins by looking at the growth of ‘feel good’ art in the context of the economic recession. It goes on to discuss the contemporary role of poetry in public culture , and the relationship b between the aesthetics of sport and literature. It concluded with a detailed reading of the poetry … [Read more...] about The Cultural Olympiad: Carrying the Torch for Art?
My Newest Book: On the Wrong Side of the Track? East London and the Post Olympics
My newest book, "On the Wrong Side of the Track? East London and the Post Olympics" will be published in April, 2013!. The book draws on insights from the human sciences to challenge the arguments of Olympophiles for whom the Games can do no wrong as well as Olympophobes for whom they can do no right, using 2012 as a lens through which to examine underlying trends in … [Read more...] about My Newest Book: On the Wrong Side of the Track? East London and the Post Olympics
On the Wrong Side of the Track? East London and the Post Olympics
On the Wrong Side of the Track draws on insights from the human sciences to challenge the arguments of Olympophiles for whom the Games can do no wrong as well as Olympophobes for whom they can do no right, using 2012 as a lens through which to examine underlying trends in contemporary culture. What did the 2012 Olympics tell us about who we are, who we were, and … [Read more...] about On the Wrong Side of the Track? East London and the Post Olympics
Formations Of Self And Society 1943-73: A Conversation With Cynthia Cockburn
2008 was forty years after the student uprisings which caused a storm in the teacups of the political establishment across the world. The anniversary was an occasion for that generation, my generation, to take stock, to look back at the conjuncture and consider how it had shaped our politics and subsequent lives. As someone who had been a student in the early sixties … [Read more...] about Formations Of Self And Society 1943-73: A Conversation With Cynthia Cockburn