Event overview
One of a series of workshops, organised by the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, that celebrates and considers Stuart Hall's work by close engagements with some of his key publications.
Each workshop consists of a series of responses to the texts and a discussion of their significance in their historical context and their continued agency and effect in the debates of contemporary cultural studies and beyond. Attendance is open, with the request that attendees read the particular text beforehand.
Workshop 2: "Policing the Crisis, mugging, the state, and law and order"
Matthew Fuller chair, Jeremy Gilbert, Vincenzo Ruggiero, Stephanie Petschick
Policing the Crisis is collectively written along with Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clark and Brian Roberts. This is an attempt to develop a critical analysis of the full "conjuncture" of the media and social event coded as "mugging" and the underlying political, cultural and medial forces that undergirded and fomented it. The book is remarkable as a piece of social and cultural research in that it refuses to draw any easy boundaries between a historical period and its genesis, between a crisis of capitalism and the unfolding politics of race, between cultural forces and their theorisation but traces the fullness of the liaisons, interlinking and differentiation of these forces. What it does mark are the uneasy boundaries between such things and the way they are worked. More than this though, Policing the Crisis provides an example of cultural studies research that takes the analysis of complex configurations as operative at multiple scales, as demanding not simply the methodological heterodoxy of which it is full, but also a sense of such research being in the midst of political and cultural experiment and action.
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Biographies of Speakers
Matthew Fuller’s books include 'Media Ecologies, materialist energies in art and technoculture', (MIT) 'Behind the Blip, essays on the culture of software' and ‘Elephant & Castle’. (both Autonomedia) With Andrew Goffey he is co-author of ‘Evil Media’. (MIT) Editor of 'Software Studies, a lexicon', (MIT) and co-editor of the journal Computational Culture, he is involved in a number of projects in art, media and software. He is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Jeremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London. His most recent book is Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism (Pluto 2013). See
http://www.jeremygilbert.org.
Stefanie Petschick is Lecturer and Acting Convenor of the MA in Culture Industry at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her recent doctoral thesis The Suject of Memory: The Politics of Contemporary War Commemoration developed a critique of the theoretical concept of memory and the practices of soldier commemoration in the wake of post-2001 British military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. Her current research focusses on the politics and ethics of a critique of neoliberalism.
Vincenzo Ruggiero is Professor of Sociology and Director of the ‘Crime and Conflict Research Centre’ at Middlesex University in London. His latest books are: ‘Penal Abolitionism’ (2010), ‘Corruption and Organised Crime in Europe’ (2012),’ The Crimes of the Economy’ (23013), ‘Power and Crime’ (2014).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 26 Nov 2014 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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