Tag Archives: Academic life

Soundscapes in Maastricht

by michaelc Posted on 6 April 2012

Maastricht provided a suitably quiet setting for an international workshop on ‘Soundscapes of the urban past’, which covered the behaviour of audition across different forms — radio, film, theatre, plus new audio phenomena like car stereos and audio museum guides … Continue reading →

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Marx at the Movies in Preston and Third Cinema in Oxford

by michaelc Posted on 23 March 2012

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 →

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Aspects of the documentary image

by michaelc Posted on 29 January 2012

After my rather long silence, an uncharacteristically short post. We gathered, on an unusually warm day for January, at the London College of Communication in Elephant & Castle for the third seminar convened by the Artists’ Moving Image Research Network, … Continue reading →

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What happens when you privatise universities: now on video from Chile

by michaelc Posted on 19 October 2011

The world represented by the mainstream media is still governed by a division into centre and periphery which has been thrown into doubt by recent events—not only the global effects of economic crisis, but the popular protest movements which have … Continue reading →

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Teachers and Learners in Bristol – new video blog

by michaelc Posted on 16 February 2011

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/20008781[/vimeo] The repercussions of the cuts in Higher Education are being felt in Bristol, where lecturers at the University of the West of England (UWE) have been forced to take strike action over threats to staffing. Here I report on the … Continue reading →

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