Fight Back: New Book on UK Student Protests Released
One of the many lessons of Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is that the very being and becoming of protest and revolution is necessarily bound up with a … Continue reading →
Liebig 14: Eviction
Naja. I feel really guilty not to have posted earlier on the eviction of residents living in the Liebig 14 alternative housing project in Berlin-Friedrichshain. They were evicted on the … Continue reading →
Producing the Urban Commons
This may be of interest to some. It is a CFP for a session that I’m co-organizing with Colin McFarlane and Gordon MacLeod for the International Critical Geography Conference in … Continue reading →
What is to be done (next)?
A Happy New Year to all! It seems that the holiday season has ushered in a period of reflection, debate, and disagreement within the growing student movement here in the … Continue reading →
Further Update: December 23
1. Geographies of the Kettle: Fantastic piece by Rory Rowan on recent student-led protests in the UK and the technique of ‘kettling’ used by the police. While kettling may be … Continue reading →
Cultures of Occupation and Demonstration: Senate House Tonight!
This via Nina Power at Infinite Thought – looks great! In the context of numerous student occupations of their universities and mass demonstrations, the seminar Marxism in Culture has organised a … Continue reading →
Student Protests in the UK: Further Update
Even the Galactic Empire has turned against the Coalition (http://www.leninology.blogspot.com/ ) It was probably a combination of shock and anger which has prevented me from posting until now on … Continue reading →
Student Protests and Occupations in the UK
“The reform of consciousness consists entirely in making the world aware of its own consciousness, in arousing it from its dream of itself, in explaining its own actions to it.” … Continue reading →
Gängeviertel Event (Nov. 25): „Wir gestalten die Stadt, in der wir leben wollen – aber wie?“
This looks fantastic. Wish I could be there as I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘self-organization’ and ‘autonomy’ (and perhaps ‘antagonism’ as well) and to what extent they remain key … Continue reading →
Back in the Saddle: Roundup for November 20
I’m finally on the mend from an illness I picked up in Paris a few weeks ago. Lots to catch up on not least the first stirrings of co-ordinated action … Continue reading →