Fight Back! Free E-Book and Seminar

Fight Back! A Reader on the Winter of Protest, an e-book edited by Dan Hancox, has just been released and is free to download (click here). Inside is a chapter by myself on aesthetic issues in the recent protests as well as chapters by commentators potentially known to readers of this blog such as Jesse Darling, Jeremy Gilbert, Dan Hancox, Owen Hatherley, Laurie Penny, Paul Sagar and Daniel Trilling, and a very useful set of appendices. It'll be out in print on the 24th of March. Don't miss.

To mark the launch of Fight Back! there'll be a seminar held at the University of East London entitled 'The Art of Protest' at which I'll be talking alongside Jesse Darling and Dan Hancox, with Steve 'Kode9' Goodman and Andrew Blake responding:

The Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London, presents:

The Art of Protest

A seminar to mark the launch of Fight Back! A reader on the winter of protest

March 2nd 2011, 14:00-17:00

Papers:

Dan Hancox: Pow! in Parliament Square: Riot music and the kettled generation

Dan Hancox is a freelance journalist writing on music and politics for The Guardian, New Statesman and others, and the editor of Fight Back! A reader on the winter of protest.

Jesse Darling: [Protest] Signs and the Signified: handmade propaganda in the age of the branded demographic.

Jesse Darling is a journeyman auto-ethnographer and artist of many media working in /dasein/ by design and the performance of everyday life. JD lives on the fringes of London and wherever.

Adam Harper: The Art and Reality of Protest

Adam Harper blogs on aesthetics and criticism in music, art and life at Rouge's Foam. He has written for The Guardian and Wire magazine and is the author of Infinite Music: Imagining the Next Millennium of Human Music-Making, forthcoming for Zer0 books.

Respondents:
Steve Goodman
Steve Goodman is author of Sonic Warfare: sound, affect & the ecology of fear, MIT Press, 2010. He also runs the record label Hyperdub, and DJs/produces under the name Kode9.

Andrew Blake
Andrew Blake is currently Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of East London, and a saxophonist and
composer. His books on music include The Land without Music: Music, Culture and Society in Twentieth Century Britain (1997), the edited collection Living through Pop (1999), and most recently Popular Music: the Age of Multimedia (2007). He contributed to the Cambridge History of Twentieth Century Music and the Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music.He is also the author of books on sport, consumer culture, and fiction,including The Irresistible Rise of Harry Potter, which has been translated into six languages.

Chair: Jeremy Gilbert
author of Anticapitalism and Culture (Berg 2008)

For more information and for a full audio recording of recent events in the centre see http://culturalstudiesresearch.org/

Location: UEL Docklands Campus
Transport: Cyprus DLR station is located right next to the campus (just follow signs out of the station)

Room EB.1.07
(First Floor, East Building, which is to the left on entering the main square from Cyprus station
Upon entering the building from the main square, take the first staircase on the right, to the first floor, and follow signs to Eb.1.07)

All Welcome - no booking required
For further info: J.Gilbert@uel.ac.uk