Another World is Necessary: Crisis, Struggle and Political Alternatives 27 - 29 November 2009 Birkbeck College and School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Thornhaugh Street, London XC1H OXG REGISTER NOW at: http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/hm/conference2009.htm REGISTRATION CLOSES 24 NOVEMBER CONFERENCE PROGRAMME now...

Sunday, 15 November Calling Out Of Context at the ICA 2.00 p.m. Mark Fisher (aka influential music blogger k-punk), considers the passivity of listening and discusses the possibilities for collective, intimate and fresh ways of hearing. This event inaugurates the...

Trust me, you don't have to like MJ to enjoy this book ....if you want serious but highly readable reflections on pop, politics and celebrity (and their interactions) .... if you long for the kind of engaged and expansive...

Proving the point: ... only two examples from this excellent post, which everyone should read... Diane Abbott is also very good on the QT thing......

Callam Opacic, 19, whose grandfather came to Britain as a Polish refugee, said: "All of them apart from Nick Griffin were hypocrites. They didn't let him say a word on so many political issues." The issue is why this judgement,...

Lenin's refusal to join in the celebrations about Nick Griffin's shambolic performance on Question Time last night is well founded. Griffin may have come across as what Peter Serafinowicz called "Adolf Brent" but bumbling incompetence didn't stop George W Bush...

Modernism After Postmodernism: Is there a future beyond capitalist realism? November 11th 2009 2:00pm - 5:00pm UEL Docklands Campus Room EB.3.19 (third floor, main building, turn left upon entering the main square after leaving Cyprus DLR. Cyprus DLR is literally...

Reading Jodi Dean's excellent book on democracy and communicative capitalism, I was put in mind of Momus's recent remarks about blogging (as cited by Simon here). "Sure," Momus wrote, "Click Opera has been a sort of karate course, and...

A belated thanks to everyone who attended last week's Militant Dysphoria event at Goldsmiths. And special thanks to Dominic, Nathan, Nina, Nick, James and Alex whose thoughtful presentations did so much to stimulate the very lively discussion and to...

Interesting response via email to the Atwood post by someone calling themselves The Guava Tree ("I hope my email address name doesn't throw you off and make you think I'm a religious hippie person", they say), highlighting some aspects of...

"Regressive it all is," Jameson remarks of the "God's gardeners" cult in Atwood's The Year Of The Flood, adding a provocative parenthesis: "it is always helpful to wonder what politics today could possibly be otherwise." The Year Of The...

The militant modernist is of course right to resist any equation of techno-modernity with Nazism. Nazi time, with its mixture of the ultra-archaic and the technologically cutting edge, was in effect an anticipative taste of the postmodern, not any...

1: Woman sawn apart in a wooden crate, wearing a bathing suit, smiling, a trick done with mirrors, I read it in a comic book: only with me there had been an accident and I came apart. The other...

So it is ... and that's why crises pose no kind of threat to it... I'm in no position to comment directly on Climate Camp, since I haven't visited it. For a far more informed perspective than I could...

One of the places you will be able to get Capitalist Realism is The Book Depository, where it is already available to pre-order....

(OK, so the Michael Jackson book is now with the copy-editor, so I have a little more time for posts here... So a couple of throat clearing posts before the long-promised Eliminativist Marxist post...) Zone Styx Travelcard responds to...

A few people have written asking me when Capitalist Realism will be coming out: it will be published at the end of November, at the same time as the Michael Jackson book. But it won't be available in many bookshops...

Instead of tripping and beating a philosophy for its supposed faults only to end up with the same range of mediocre biases with which we began, we ought to find a more vigorous means of engagement with philosophers. The...

We have been told by the living that the idea of a vital world is that of comfort and warmth. Dominic Fox assures us that this is not the case. With an unparalleled militant efficiency, Cold World blackens the lines...

Let's not beat around the bush: Fisher's compulsively readable book is simply the best diagnosis of our predicament that we have! Through examples from daily life and popular culture, but without sacrificing theoretical stringency, he provides a ruthless portrait...