Reproduction-Production
Any Birkbeck crew, or indeed anyone around Russell Square on a regular basis, is welcome to come to the following, where I foist Banhamite-Bolshevist propaganda upon unsuspecting postgraduates:
20th Century and After: Reproduction
Room 503, 30 Russell Square, at 7.00pm
10th October: Autonomy and Production
Texts by Sergei Tretiakov, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Simon Reynolds, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
24th October: Standardisation
Texts by Theodor Adorno, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Moshe Safdie
7th November: Biopolitics
Texts by Shulamith Firestone, Lee Edelman, Olaf Stapledon
21st November: Automation
Texts by Samuel Butler, Marshall McLuhan, Situationist International, Kodwo Eshun
5th December: Postmodernism, Parody, Pastiche
Texts by Jean Baudrillard, Fredric Jameson, others TBC
Photocopies will be available from the Photocopy Room on the second floor of 30 Russell Square (door marked 'no entry')
For further information email Owen Hatherley (owenhatherley(at)yahoo.co.uk) or Andrew Barlow (andrewpbarlow(at)hotmail.com). Texts subject to change. Any other ideas for texts, disagreements and requests appreciated.
posted by owen hatherley at 1:16 pm
2 Comments:
Based on this series alone, I would venture--hesitantly, mind you--to say that the intellectual culture in London is enviable compared to that in Alabama.
Yeah, want to give those of us in the cultural deserts a reading list?
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