Cowley Club Bookshop Talks 2010

The Cow­ley Book­shop Col­lec­tive are proud to present a series of author talks for 2010:

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All events run from 16.00 to 18.30 and are FREE
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Fri­day 8 Jan­u­ary
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Clive Bloom (Vio­lent Lon­don) talks about his research into Edwar­dian anar­chism.

Clive Bloom is Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of Eng­lish and Amer­i­can Stud­ies at Mid­dle­sex Uni­ver­si­ty. He has writ­ten many books on pop­u­lar cul­ture, cul­tur­al his­to­ry and lit­er­ary crit­i­cism, reg­u­lar­ly appears on radio and tele­vi­sion and con­tributes to a num­ber of nation­al news­pa­pers. His next book, enti­tled Goth­ic His­to­ries will be pub­lished in April 2010.
http://www.clivebloom.com/

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Wednes­day 13 Jan­u­ary
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Stevphen Shukaitis (Con­stituent Imag­i­na­tion) and Jack Z. Bratich (Con­spir­a­cy Pan­ics) have a dis­cus­sion enti­tled An Affec­tive Weath­er Report

Event fly­er (3.4 MB pdf) — http://mujinga.net/AffectiveWeatherReport.pdf

Stevphen Shukaitis is an edi­tor at Autono­me­dia and lec­tur­er at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Essex. He is the author of Imag­i­nal Machines: Auton­o­my & Self-Orga­ni­za­tion in the Rev­o­lu­tions of Every­day Life (Autono­me­dia, 2009) and edi­tor with Eri­ka Bid­dle and David Grae­ber of Con­stituent Imag­i­na­tion: Mil­i­tant Inves­ti­ga­tions, Col­lec­tive The­o­riza­tion (AK Press, 2007). His research focus­es on the emer­gence of col­lec­tive imag­i­na­tion in social move­ments and the chang­ing com­po­si­tions of cul­tur­al and artis­tic labor.
http://stevphen.mahost.org/

Jack Z. Bratich is Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Jour­nal­ism and Media Stud­ies at Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty. He is also a zine librar­i­an at ABC No Rio in New York City. Jack uses crit­i­cal cul­tur­al stud­ies to ana­lyze the pol­i­tics of pop­u­lar cul­ture. He stud­ies media cul­ture as an inter­sec­tion of pow­er, knowl­edge, and sub­jec­tiv­i­ty. He is co-edi­tor, along with Jere­my Pack­er and Cameron McCarthy, of Fou­cault, Cul­tur­al Stud­ies and Gov­ern­men­tal­i­ty (SUNY 2003).
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/directory/jbratich/index.html

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Sun­day 17 Jan­u­ary — SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION (Check Cow­ley club web­site)
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John Zerzan (Ele­ments of Refusal) talks on The roots of the cri­sis and the need for a new par­a­digm.

Amer­i­can philoso­pher John Zerzan’s the­sis is sim­ple: civ­i­liza­tion is patho­log­i­cal, and needs to be dis­man­tled. Zerzan’s rad­i­cal cri­tique of civ­i­liza­tion, laid out in books such as Ele­ments Of Refusal (1988), Future Prim­i­tive (1994), and Run­ning On Empti­ness (2002) draws on anthro­po­log­i­cal research to argue that domes­ti­ca­tion of nature and domes­ti­ca­tion of humans go hand in hand. And this is accom­plished pri­mar­i­ly through tech­nol­o­gy.
This is the first appear­ance by John Z in the UK since 2003. A one-off event.
http://www.johnzerzan.net/

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Thurs­day 4 Feb­ru­ary
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John Bark­er (Bend­ing the Bars) talks about his expe­ri­ences of the Angry Brigade.

Between 1970 and 1972 the Angry Brigade, strong­ly influ­enced by anar­chism and the Sit­u­a­tion­ists, launched a bomb­ing cam­paign which tar­get­ed banks, embassies and the homes of Tory MPs. In total, 25 bomb­ings were attrib­uted to them by the police. The dam­age done by the bomb­ings was most­ly lim­it­ed to prop­er­ty dam­age although one per­son was slight­ly injured. A group of anar­chists from North East Lon­don, the ‘Stoke New­ing­ton Eight’, were pros­e­cut­ed for car­ry­ing out bomb­ings as the Angry Brigade in one of the longest crim­i­nal tri­als of Eng­lish his­to­ry (it last­ed from 30 May to 6 Decem­ber 1972).
John Bark­er was one of those impris­oned. John went to prison in 1971, and stayed there for sev­en long years. Bend­ing The Bars is a col­lec­tion of sto­ries writ­ten then, and pub­lished togeth­er for the first time in 2007. This evening John will be dis­cussing his expe­ri­ence of impris­on­ment, and answer­ing ques­tions on the Brigade’s out­look and actions.

Book review by Stew­art Home — http://www.metamute.org/en/node/6241

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All events run from 16.00 to 18.30 and are FREE
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More to come!

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