Being written for presentation at ‘Marx at the Movies’, these notes address the topic from an angle which is rarely treated in film and video scholarship, that of the peculiar labour process and mode of production involved.
Events since the near-death experience of finance capital in 2008 have succoured renewed attention not to Marxism as a political creed but to Marx as the urtext of the proper analysis of the capitalist system. On the one hand, old … Continue reading
Two activists from Occupy LSX, Martin Eiermann and Jamie Kelsey-Fry, talk about the eviction the morning after. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/37617578[/vimeo]
The Thesis Whisperer 22/02/2012 Academic publishing is presented as a universal good, without regard to how the publishing system operates. While publications are an essential addition to the CV in today’s competitive job market, the ethics of publishing need to be considered too. … Continue reading
Is this perhaps the most significant piece of news coming out of Greece in the last few days? greekleftreview.wordpress.com Greek hospital now under workers’ control Posted: February 6, 2012 Submitted for publication by working class self organisation at libcom.org on Feb 5 2012 19:20 Health workers … Continue reading
One single, secular, democratic state in Palestine: A Republic of all its citizens! www.1not2.org/One_State_in_Palestine
Interesting discussion going on recently over on Film-Philosophy about that old bugbear, the relation of theory to practice in our teaching and study of film. This debate has a history which, in the UK at least, goes back to the … Continue reading
Our Man in Havana « LRB blog private | 10 February 2012 | www.lrb.co.uk Alan Gross, a 62-year-old US citizen, has been imprisoned in Cuba since December 2009. He fell foul of the authorities while working for USAID, liaising with Cuba’s small Jewish community. … Continue reading
It’s one of those symbolic moments: a couple of weeks ago, Kodak filed for bankruptcy because it has failed to keep up with the shift from analogue to digital photography. This is the company that launched the consumer market for amateur photography … Continue reading
Patricio Guzmán’s latest film finally reaches London at a DocHouse screening on 2nd February. The Atacama desert in the north of Chile—the location for Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia de la luz (Nostalgia for the Light)—is one the driest places on earth, … Continue reading