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Paintings by Jean McNeil

March 31, 2013 by philco

These paintings by Jean McNeil are from her current portfolio of work inspired by the land and seascapes of East Anglia. They will feature in Graphologies to be published in May by Mica Press. To see more of her work go to her website: www.jean-mcneil.co.uk " order_by="sortorder" order_direction="ASC" returns="included" … [Read more...] about Paintings by Jean McNeil

Reading Room Gallery

March 9, 2013 by philco

Below are images from my book Reading Room Only which is described in more detail here. " order_by="sortorder" order_direction="ASC" returns="included" maximum_entity_count="500"] … [Read more...] about Reading Room Gallery

Book Launches

March 1, 2013 by philco

My first book launch was a great success with over 80 people attending! The book launch in Wivenhoe bookshop on May 10 was also a success. Below are some pictures of Phil interacting with interested customers. Read more about On the Wrong Side of the Track and Reading Room Only … [Read more...] about Book Launches

My Newest Book: On the Wrong Side of the Track? East London and the Post Olympics

October 16, 2012 by philco

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

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Phil Cohen Funeral
December 1, 2024
Sadly Phil Cohen died on November 7th 2024. Funeral details and a link to his obituary can be found here...
Phil Cohen Obituary
November 27, 2024
Phil Cohen 1943-2024 Professor Phil Cohen, radical activist, cultural theorist, memoirist, poet and urban ethnographer, has died aged 81. ‘When I first met Phil Cohen,’ recalls Dr Toby Butler, ‘he was professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London. Fizzing with ideas, he drew together an astonishing array of artists, academics and policy […]
WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET : A DOUBLE TAKE ON THE UK ELECTION 2024
July 15, 2024
Note: These two short pieces written after the June 4th election result , are extracted from a collection of essays , Studies in the Grey Zone, due to be published by eyeglass books in October. Take One: One Nation Labourism and the Great Moving Right Show The question of just how and from where, and […]
Waypoints 2
March 27, 2024
Publication date: first quarter of 2025. New introduction by Andrew Calcutt This new book brings together Phil Cohen’s most recent writing and spans the period from the Covid 19 pandemic to the ongoing wars in the Ukraine and Gaza. Like the pieces in the first Waypoints volume, these essays are occasional in that they were […]
Living Maps : towards a poetry made by all
December 24, 2023
Looking back on the first ten years of Livingmaps Network Every project has its founding myth , a story about its origins in which the cold rational prose of ‘aims and objectives’ melts into the thicker air of an auto-poetics. The risk is that in the process starting points become end points, and the […]
ANTISEMIT-ORIENTAL- ZION-ISMS
December 23, 2023
The Triple Misalliance I An extract from‘Studies in thr Grey Zone; Waypoints Vol 2 to be published by eyglass books at Easter 2024 .Introduction One of the many fallouts from the current horrific conflict in Palestine/Israel is the way sections of the Hard Left have advanced an apologetics for the atrocities committed by Hamas, while […]