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"On the Idea of Communism
Birbeck College, London
A return to Communism?
Mark Fischer / Frieze.com
http://www.lacan.com/essays/?page_id=99

Alain Badiou, Terry Eagleton, Peter Hallward, Michael Hardt, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière, Gianni Vattimo, Slavoj Zizek…

Communism, the Word
Jean-Luc Nancy
http://www.lacan.com/essays/?page_id=126

Not the word before the notion, but the word as notion and as historical agent.
Communism, therefore, means the common condition of all the singularities of subjects, that is of all the exceptions, all the uncommon points whose network makes a world (a possibility of sense).
It does not belong to the political.
It comes before any politics. "

Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities- London

Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

The State We're In - Health and Obesity - an Individual or a
Collective Responsibility? A panel discussion chaired by Professor Sander Gilman
Speakers: Susie Orbach, William Leith, Dr Brian Hurwitz, Dr Mervat Nasser
24th January 3pm Room B36 Birkbeck Main Building Free - all welcome


S21: the Khmer Rouge Killing Machine - Film screening and discussion with the film's director, Rithy Panh
7th February 2pm Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square Free but registration essential


İştar Gözaydın (BIH Research Fellow) 'Politics of Religion in Turkey : The Republican Times'
17th February 6.30pm Council Room Birkbeck Main Building Free - all welcome


Sonia Kruks (BIH Research Fellow) 'Simone de Beauvoir and the Anatomy of Revenge'
26th February 6.30 Council Room, Birkbeck Main Building Free - all welcome


'The State We're In' - Cosmopolitanism
Speakers: Robert Fine, Warwick, Paul Gilroy, LSE, Martti Koskenniemi, Helsinki and Cambridge,
Walter Mignolo, Duke University, Costas Douzinas, Birkbeck
7th March 2pm - 5pm Room B33 Birkbeck Main Building Free - all welcome


On the Idea of Communism - Conference
Speakers: Judith Balso, Alain Badiou, Bruno Boostels, Terry Eagleton, Peter Hallward, Michael Hardt,
Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Ranciere, Alessandro Russo, Alberto Toscano, Gianni Vattimo, Wang Hui, Slavoj Zizek
13th March, 14th March & 15th March Registration essential
For more information about all these events, please visit http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bih/

or email Julia Eisner j.eisner@bbk.ac.uk

bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation

bell hooks is one of America's most accessible public intellectuals. In this two-part video, extensively illustrated with many of the images under analysis, she makes a compelling argument for the transformative power of cultural criticism.

In Part One, hooks discusses the theoretical foundations and positions that inform her work (such as the motives behind representations, as well as their power in social and cultural life). hooks also explains why she insists on using the phrase "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" to describe the interlocking systems of domination that define our reality.

In Part Two, she domonstrates the value of cultural studies in concrete analysis through such subjects as the OJ Simpson case, Madonna, Spike Lee, and Gangsta rap. The aim of cultural analysis, she argues, should be the production of enlightened witnesses - audiences who engaged with the representations of cultural life knowledgeably and vigilantly.

"The issue is not freeing ourselves from representations. It's really about being enlightened witnesses when we watch representations." -bell hooks


Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQUuHFKP-9s