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Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee</h1>
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An exhibition exploring the life and legacy of John Dee, one of Tudor England's most extraordinary and enigmatic figures</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">'A revelatory show. As the visitor peers, he finds himself drawn ever more deeply not just into the historical world of the Tudors but into the labyrinthine mind of one of its most riveting denizens' </em>The Times, <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/visualarts/article4659050.ece" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(179, 0, 68); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #313131; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Let Tudor magician John Dee put you under his spell</a></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'FS Albert Web Bold', Calibri, Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Mathematician, magician, astronomer, astrologer, imperialist, alchemist and spy, John Dee (1527–1609) continues to fascinate and inspire centuries after he entered the court of Elizabeth I.</strong></div>
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Our exhibition explores Dee through his personal library. On display for the first time are Dee's mathematical, astronomical and alchemical texts, many elaborately annotated and illustrated by Dee's own hand. Now held in the collections of the Royal College of Physicians, they reveal tantalising glimpses into the 'conjuror's mind'.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-86115030475018867572011-11-27T08:52:00.002+00:002011-11-27T08:58:08.967+00:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Revolutions in Reverse</span></b></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">A new book from David Gra</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">eber published by Minor Compositions: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bolder; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">. Graeber "</span></span></span></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">explores a wide-ranging set of topics including political strategy, global trade, debt, imagination, violence, aesthetics, alienation, and creativity. Written in the wake of the anti-globalization movement and the rise of the war on terror, these essays survey the political landscape for signs of hope in unexpected places." Available free online or in print at $13:</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=284"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=284</span></span></a></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-81384537106171406352011-10-02T19:20:00.003+01:002011-10-02T19:33:41.646+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The Luddites - without condescension</span></span></b></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">For anyone who (like me) was unaware of the conference on the Luddites that took place at Birkbeck College in May, the Backdoor Broadcasting Company has made podcasts of the sessions and discussions available online.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Th</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">e </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">one-day conference was held "to mark the 200th anniversary of the uprising of the handloom weavers in the dawn of the industrial revolution under the command of the mythic General Ludd. Even though the movement was sparked by skilled artisans, “luddite” has ever since been a byword for technophobes facing backwards and mindless rejection of progress. The conference will gather historians of luddism and others interested in what in 1800 was called “the machinery question”, to consider not only the historical luddites, urban and rural, but also contemporary movements of direct resistance, north and south, to capitalist modernization – for example, anti-nuclear movements, opposition to agricultural transgenics, resistance to big dams. The concluding session will address the issue of modernity itself, its model of temporality and the assumption that history is future-directed."</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Contributers included Peter Linebaugh, T.J Clark,Iain Boal, Dave King, Esther Leslie and Anna Davin</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(174, 174, 174); line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><a href="http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/05/the-luddites-without-condescension/">http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/05/the-luddites-without-condescension/</a></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(174, 174, 174); line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-22907888681564359712011-08-21T08:28:00.002+01:002011-08-21T08:35:37.430+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Unwelcome Guests</span></span></b></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">
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<br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.UnwelcomeGuests.Net/UNWELCOME_GUESTS"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">http://www.UnwelcomeGuests.Net/UNWELCOME_GUESTS</span></span></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-4629983817413172442011-07-12T11:59:00.002+01:002011-07-12T12:09:05.980+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Weaponizing Anthropology</span></b></span><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A new book by David Price, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "><em><a href="http://www.akpress.org/2011/items/weaponizinganthropology"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Weaponizing Anthropology</span></span></span></a></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> "documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations. Price's inquiry into past relationships between anthropologists and the CIA, FBI, and Pentagon provides the historical base for this expose of the current abuses of anthropology by military and intelligence agencies."</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Here's a quotation from an endorsement for the book by author of <i>Stone-Age Economics</i>, Marshall Sahlins:</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Even before he published this masterly and comprehensive account, David Price has long been in the forefront of those warning of the adverse effects of militarizing the human sciences. Now, by matching an extraordinary command of the sources to a telling sensitivity to the political and intellectual consequences, he demonstrates in this definitive work that weaponizing anthropology is as damaging to the soul of the nation as it is to the integrity of the science. “</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Published jointly by AK Press and Counterpunch - pre-publication purchase brings a 25% discount from </span></span><a href="http://www.akpress.org/2011/items/weaponizinganthropology"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">AK Press</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. </span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-83354426540610634902011-07-07T08:33:00.002+01:002011-07-07T08:39:04.171+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Crack Capitalism</span></b></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">John Holloway, author of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Change the World Without Taking Power,</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> is giving a series of four Leverhulme Lectures, the first of which: "Crack Capitalism" is online </span><a href="http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/study/masters/courses/maasc/news.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">.</span></div><div><br /></div><div> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-44339502524485853422011-04-07T22:16:00.002+01:002011-04-07T22:24:58.214+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Poetry Classics and Class</span></b></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">An online talk with readings by poet Tony Harrison, on the theme of 'Poetry Classics and Class', recorded live at an event held at the British Academy last year. Scroll down to the foot of the page for the links to the audio files: </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2010/classicsandclass/index.cfm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">www.britac.ac.uk/events/2010/classicsandclass/index.cfm</span></span></a></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-14399080685842708162011-02-22T20:38:00.002+00:002011-02-22T20:48:17.839+00:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Libraries at Risk</span></span></b></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">A podcast of of a seminar by David McKitterick, Librarian at Trinity College, Cambridge given at the Institute of Historical Research, last November:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Abstract: </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Several recent cases have drawn attention to the fragility of libraries as we know them - both large and small. In a world of changing attitudes to books, as well as perennial problems of cash shortage, how can library historians in particular contribute to a debate that will become even more urgent in the next few years?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "></span></span><a href="http://bit.ly/flZi5K"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">http://bit.ly/flZi5K</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">For a complete list of podcasts on a wide range of historical topics available from the IHR:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.history.ac.uk/digital/podcasts"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">www.history.ac.uk/digital/podcasts</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.history.ac.uk/digital/podcasts"></a> </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-26376711731936651472011-01-28T21:23:00.002+00:002011-01-28T21:29:02.197+00:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">Lessons from Howard Zinn</span></b></span><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Anthony Arnove, writes about Howard Zinn, activist and author of <i>The Peoples' History of the United States </i>for<i> Yes Magazine</i>:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"But Howard added a distinctive element to these arguments by embodying the understanding that the process of struggle, the shared experience of being part of work alongside and for others, is the most rewarding, fulfilling, and meaningful life one can live. The sense of solidarity he had with people in struggle, the sense of joy he had in life, was infectious.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Read the complete article <a href="http://bit.ly/dO9MyP"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">here</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div>http://bit.ly/dO9MyP</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-32952710635812489302011-01-28T14:13:00.002+00:002011-01-28T14:20:40.676+00:00<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); line-height: 21px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><h4 style="margin-top: 1.33em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; color: rgb(211, 211, 211); font-family: Arial; text-align: left; "><a rel="nofollow" class="yiv1074420149tpl-content-highlight" target="_blank" href="http://christiebooks.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3107f251ffe372f62ebbeeca9&id=38b98eeee4&e=2e078752e3" style="line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">Anarchist Film Archive</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">: the first online archive and database of anarchist and libertarian cinema, film and video</span></h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">Christie Books has just announced the new online <i>Anarchist Film Archive</i>. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); line-height: 21px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">The archive is free to access and contains a growing collection of nearly 1000 difficult-to-find feature films, documentaries, interviews, talks and short videos — all with anarchist or libertarian-oriented themes of education, justice, resistance — and liberation. Complementing the archive is a comprehensive and regularly updated database of anarchist/libertarian films compiled and maintained by Santiago-Juan Navarro. The archive is easy to use: you can scroll through the titles, search for a particular film in the ‘Search’ box or search by tag. You can also embed individual films in blogs, facebook pages etc.<br /><br />Click here to launch </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a rel="nofollow" class="yiv1074420149tpl-content-highlight" target="_blank" href="http://christiebooks.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=3107f251ffe372f62ebbeeca9&id=44deb66e32&e=2e078752e3" style="line-height: 1.2em; text-decoration: underline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; "></a><a href="http://bit.ly/fmNEZh"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">The Anarchist Film Archive</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div>http://bit.ly/fmNEZh</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-21762382454339053422011-01-22T10:15:00.002+00:002011-01-22T10:26:04.638+00:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">Photography and Memory</span></b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "><br /></span></div>Near the top of my ever-growing "to read" list is Andrea Noble's <i>Photography and Memory in Mexico: Icons of Revolution</i> which explores a number of the famous photographic images made during the 1910-1920 revolution. Andrea analyses a small, but carefully chosen selection of photographs which were repeatedly reproduced across a range of media in the aftermath of the conflict, to reveal some "compelling stories about cultural memory and identity in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century".</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">a more detailed outline of the book can be found on the <a href="http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/book.asp?id=1204810"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">Manchester University Press website</span></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">A list of Andrea's books and journal articles can be read <a href="http://www.dur.ac.uk/mlac/spanish/staff/display/?id=656"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">here</span></a> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-33055680145508599582010-11-20T14:58:00.002+00:002010-11-20T15:05:07.561+00:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Mark Twain - autobiography storms the US best-sellers charts</span></span></b></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">One hundred years after his death, the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography has just been published and is now rapidly moving up the New York Times best-seller list - read a short review by Charles R Larson on </span><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/larson11192010.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Counterpunch</span></span></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-67387907465229407452010-11-15T08:12:00.004+00:002010-11-15T08:37:41.723+00:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The Re-enchantment of Place</span></span></span></b><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Ken Worpole (author of the ground-breaking book </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dockers and Detectives</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) provides a short over-view of a new book: </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Towards Re-enchantment: Place and Its Meanings</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">edited by Gareth Evans and Di Robson, (Artevents, £9.99). This collection of essays and poems about visiting places which are beyond the reach of the car provides new insights into the landscape and history of Britain: </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;font-size:14px;">"...</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 23px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;font-size:14px;">in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Essex provided a home to a variety of metropolitan social reform projects employing the vocabulary of the land colony, where under strict conditions, or in a spirit of political zeal, new lives might be moulded. These included the Hadleigh Farm Colony (founded1891, Salvation Army), Mayland Colony (1896, Socialist), Purleigh Colony (1896, Tolstoyan Anarchist), Ashingdon Colony (1897, Tolstoyan Anarchist), Wickford Colony, (Tolstoyan Socialist), Laindon Farm Colony (1904, Socialist/Municipal). Even today, though, there are still a lot of idealistic initiatives in the county – religious, ecological, social – which mainstream politics ignores, and long preceded, and will long outlast, ‘the Big Society’, if not the playing fields of Eton."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><i>Towards Re-enchantment</i> includes essays by </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 23px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Jay Griffiths, Kathleen Jamie, Richard Mabey, Robert Macfarlane, Jane Rendell, Iain Sinclair and Ken Worpole, and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 23px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;font-size:14px;">poems by Elizabeth Bletsoe, Lavinia Greenlaw, Alice Oswald and Robin Robertson.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 23px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 23px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Read Ken's much longer feature on the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;"><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/ken-worpole/re-enchantment-of-place-book-about-britain-is-launched?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+opendemocracy+%28openDemocracy%29"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">Open Democracy</span></a>.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330033;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">website</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330033;">.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 23px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-19227690918679356582010-10-21T15:59:00.003+01:002010-10-21T16:10:43.226+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;">THE HIVE OF LIBERTY</span></b></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "></b><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">Pamphlets were always the lifeblood of radical movements, so its good to see <i>The Hive of Liberty</i> back in print: </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><b>THE HIVE OF LIBERTY: </b><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">THE LIFE & WORK OF THOMAS SPENCE (1750-1814)</b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Edited by Keith Armstrong, with an introduction by Joan Beal and a new essay by Malcolm Chase</b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Futura;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 14px;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px;font-size:14px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">This reprint from the Thomas Spence Tryst is a celebration of that noted pioneer of people’s rights, pampleteer and poet Thomas Spence, born on Newcastle’s Quayside in turbulent times.</b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "> </b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Spence served in his father’s netmaking trade from the age of ten but went on later to be a teacher at Haydon Bridge Free Grammar School and at St. Ann’s Church in Byker under the City Corporation. In 1775, he read his famous lecture on the right to property in land to the Newcastle Philosophical Society, who voted his expulsion at their next meeting. He claimed to have invented the phrase ‘The Rights of Man’ and chalked it in the caves at Marsden Rocks in South Shields in honour of the working-class hero ‘Blaster Jack’ who lived there.</b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><br /></b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Spence even came to blows with famed Tyneside wood-engraver Thomas Bewick over a political issue, and was thrashed with cudgels for his trouble. </b><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">From 1792, having moved to London, he took part in radical agitations, particularly against the war with France. He was arrested several times for selling his own and other seditious books and was imprisoned for six months without trial in 1794, and sentenced to three years for his <i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Restorer of Society to its Natural State </i>in 1801. Whilst politicians such as Edmund Burke saw the mass of people as the ‘Swinish Multitude’, Spence saw creative potential in everybody and broadcast his ideas in the periodical <i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">Pigs’ Meat.</i></b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">He had a stall in London’s Chancery Lane, where he sold books and saloup, and later set up a small shop called <i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">The Hive of Liberty </i>in Holborn.</b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">He died in poverty ‘leaving nothing to his friends but an injunction to promote his Plan and the remembrance of his inflexible integrity’.</b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "></b><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">The Thomas Spence Trust has successfully campaigned for a commemorative plaque on the Quayside in Newcastle. It was unveiled on 21st June 2010, Spence's 260th birthday, with a number of talks, displays and events coinciding with it. </b></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Futura;"><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">PRICE £5 ISBN 1 871536 15 4</i></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Futura; "><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">ORDERS (ADD £2 POSTAGE PER COPY) TO: THE THOMAS SPENCE TRUST, </i></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Futura; "><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">93 WOODBURN SQUARE, WHITLEY LODGE, WHITLEY BAY, TYNE & WEAR NE26 3JD, ENGLAND. TEL 0191 2529531.</i></p><div><i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><br /></i></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-39275669588631697802010-09-27T23:38:00.002+01:002010-09-27T23:42:51.159+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Libraries in a Digital Age</span></span></b></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 15px; font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- display: table; font-size:inherit;color:initial;"><tbody style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- color:initial;"><tr style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- display: table-row; vertical-align: inherit; color:initial;"><td valign="top" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- display: table-cell; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font: inherit; color:initial;"><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Libraries in a Digital Age</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> is a one-day conference organised by the Association of Independent Libraries which will be held in the lecture theatre at the Royal Astronomical Society on Thursday 14 October.<br /><br />There will be presentations on social networking; the Oxford Google Books digitization partnership; the publishing industry; the future of public libraries; the knowledge commons and copyright. Conference participants will also be able to take part in a tour of Royal Astronomical Society Library. </span></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Full programme details and booking form are available on the AIL website:</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline- color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><a href="http://www.independentlibraries.co.uk/news.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">www.independentlibraries.co.uk/news.htm</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-80773613865823629772010-09-27T23:21:00.002+01:002010-09-27T23:32:46.181+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">Cities Under Siege: the New Urban Militarism</span></b></span><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Stephen Graham's new book </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Cities Under Siege</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> provides a p</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">owerful exposé of how contemporary political violence now operates through the sites, spaces and infrastructures of everyday urban life. One recent example of this trend is examined by Steve, in an article for Open Democracy: "From Helmand to Merseyside: Unmanned drones and the militarisation of UK policing" </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(124, 112, 108); line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">further details on Steve's book on the</span> </span><a href="http://www.versobooks.com/books/365-cities-under-siege"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">Verso website</span></span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(124, 112, 108); line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#7C706C;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">His article can be read on</span> </span><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/steve-graham/from-helmand-to-merseyside-military-style-drones-enter-uk-domestic-policing"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">Open Democracy</span></span></a></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-21116711190857893122010-09-08T07:56:00.002+01:002010-09-08T08:12:47.483+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Housing the Urban Poor</span></span></b></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">On the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">New Internationalist</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> website, Jeremy Seabrook describes a </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">scheme in Bangladesh which has helped garment-workers, maidservants, rickshaw drivers, construction workers, vendors and labourers transform their lives through the building of multi-storey apartments for the working poor. "In the process, the lives of the people have been transformed: they acquired new skills, their livelihoods were enhanced by co-operative working, microcredit and social education, and their savings used to acquire land, on which the first block of flats has now reached its full six storeys in Mirpur in the north of Dhaka."</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"The biggest obstacle to the realization of the project has been our absence of corruption. By refusing to give bribes, we have been our own worst enemy."</span></span></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Read the full article in the </span></span><a href="http://www.newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2010/09/07/housing-the-urban-poor/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">New Internationalist</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: FreeSerif, Cambria, Georgia, serif; line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: FreeSerif, Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; "><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-62646607296626890422010-09-03T23:03:00.002+01:002010-09-03T23:56:03.122+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Banned Books on tour</span></span></b></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The London Libraries' "reader promotion </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Banned Books</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> will go live in 28 Library Services across the country, including 16 in London on 25 September." in an attempt to raise awareness of censorship and the need for freedom of expression. Participating libraries will display sets of 50 books that have been banned or challenged in this country or overseas, and host discussions and author talks, around these themes and present banned music. A pre-event panel discussion on censorship in public libraries will be held on September 15 at the Free Word Centre, Farringdon Road, London. Participants include Lisa Appignanesi, author and president of English PEN; Tony Lacey, publishing director at Penguin, and Douglas Murray author of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Hate on the State</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Further information on </span><a href="http://www.banned-books.org.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">www.banned-books.org.uk</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">and from </span><a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/08/banned-books/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Index on Censorship</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-57500455277692226082010-09-03T09:24:00.002+01:002010-09-03T09:38:05.927+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">Music is a Crime</span></b></span><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Demetra Kotouza explores the origins and development of <i>Rebetiko</i> for <i>Mute Magazine</i>: "</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 8px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 8px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a kind of Greek, urban, subcultural music that developed around ports and urban centres in the end of the 19th and up to the first half of the 20th century, with the bouzouki as its main instrument. Today's rebetiko enthusiasts are fascinated not only with the way it combines oriental modes and rhythms with European harmonies, or by musicians' passion and virtuosic skill, but even more so by the defiant, hedonistic spirit of the culture it was born in."</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 8px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 8px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 8px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 8px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Its a long, and times densely packed article, but fascinating because of the way it links music, not just to social issues but to the daily struggles of the poor, the exploited and the marginalised in Greek society. Footnotes for further reading, and links to websites featuring examples of <i>Rebetiko</i>.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 8px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 8px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Read the whole article on <a href="http://www.metamute.org/en/content/music_is_the_crime_that_contains_all_others"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">Meta Mute</span></a> </span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-86269109114655826822010-09-02T08:34:00.001+01:002010-09-02T08:38:40.545+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Google's All-Seeing Eye</span></span></b></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">William Gibson: "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">In Google, we are at once the surveilled and the individual retinal cells of the surveillant, however many millions of us, constantly if unconsciously participatory. We are part of a post-geographical, post-national super-state, one that handily says no to China. Or yes, depending on profit considerations and strategy. But we do not participate in Google on that level. We’re citizens, but without rights."</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Read the full text of the article "Google's Earth" at the </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/opinion/01gibson.html?_r=1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">New York Times</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; "><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-73690061934684939272010-08-25T09:57:00.003+01:002010-08-25T10:07:31.308+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">Media Commons</span></b></span><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">At last an alternative to the hated system of peer-review for academic journals is being developed in an experiment inititiated by Media Commons in co-operation with the Shakespeare Quarterly, which intends to use the principle of 'crowd-sourcing' rather than the existing 'double-blind' peer review.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Read more in the</span> <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Leading-Humanities-Journal/123696/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">Chronicle of Higher Education</span></a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">and on</span> <a href="http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;">Media Commons</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-8976704397639689412010-08-25T09:46:00.003+01:002010-08-25T09:55:33.865+01:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">What was that Programme?</span></span></span></b><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">BBC researchers have started work on a project to analyse thousands of archive copies of the Radio Times as part of a plan named "</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">BBC Genome" which is intended to provide a comprehensive and easy-to-use online catalogue of the BBC's programmes, including when and where they were first aired. </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">In September, the project will begin the massive task of digitising more than 80 years' worth of broadcast records, including approximately 400,000 pages of </span></span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Radio Times</span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> covering 3m programmes and 300m words.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(2, 7, 39); line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Read the full story on</span> </span><a href="http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/news/a266575/project-to-list-every-bbc-show-aired.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Digital Spy</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> </span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(2, 7, 39); line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-79445833531371589892010-08-12T23:01:00.007+01:002010-08-12T23:19:49.126+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>The Rat Pack</b></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">A slide show of 25 "never-seen" photos of Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Junior, Frank Sinatra and others - courtesy of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><a href="http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/46451"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Life Magazine</span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"He wears the mask of an armchair philanderer with bottles and broads on his mind and seven kids in his swimming pool — a character with obvious appeal for both sexes. Highball glass in hand, he always looks faintly surprised to find the camera upon him, and his first bleary, self-deprecating crack establishes that neither he nor his audience can be quite sure what he will do next." —</span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">From LIFE's review of </span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The Dean Martin Show</span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">, 5/26/1967.</span></span></span></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">[thanks to Sophie Willard for the tip]</span></div><div> </div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-8978103609978415382010-07-20T22:30:00.004+01:002010-07-20T22:41:15.165+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>J</b><b>ohann Hari reviews Chomsky: </b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>Hopes and Prospects</b></span></span></i></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"This is a book woven through with hope and awe at all the people who slip beyond imperial control and establish real democracy. Chomsky's strongest model – and the world's – is Bolivia's experiment with radical democracy. After 30 years of having neoliberalism forced on them by the West, including the cost of water pushed beyond their grasp, the Bolivian people elected the first indigenous leader since the European conquests. Since then, it has had the fastest fall in poverty and the most rapid growth in Latin America."</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">in</span> </span></span><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/hopes-and-prospects-by-noam-chomsky-2027378.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Independent</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845184.post-28614423001507415552010-07-17T13:27:00.003+01:002010-07-17T13:46:23.140+01:00<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;">The works of Gerard Winstanley</span></span></b><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Michael Braddick reviews the new two volume publication of the works of the Gerard Winstanley edited by Thomas Corns, Ann Hughes and David Lowenstein. Published by Oxford University Press, this two volume work brings together the writings of Winstanley, who during the English Civil War provided a detailed theory of a kind of Christian anarchism, and combined theory with action as one of the key players in the Digger movement, which advocated direct action by the landless poor to takeover and cultivate the wastes and commons.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">"We justifie our act of digging upon that hill, to make the earth a common treasurie. First, because the earth was made by Almighty God, to be a common treasury of livelihood for whole mankind in all his branches, without respect of persons; and that not any one according to the Word of God (which is love) the pure Law of rightousnesse, ought to be Lord or landlord over another, but whole mankind was made equall and knit into one body by one spirit of love, which is Christ in you the hope of glory, even all the members of mans body, called the little world, are united into equality of love, to preserve the whole body."</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Michael Braddick's articulate review is available free online on the </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/39sxkjj"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Times Literary Supplement</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> website. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> </span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com