BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://housmans.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Housmans Bookshop REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190904T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190904T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T001024 CREATED:20190725T143307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190731T121520Z UID:2062-1567623600-1567627200@housmans.com SUMMARY:‘The Twittering Machine’ with Richard Seymour DESCRIPTION:In surrealist artist Paul Klee’s The Twittering Machine\, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for our relationship with social media. \nFormer social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users\, waiting for our next hit as we like\, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals\, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies\, desires and frailties into data\, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. \nThrough journalism\, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users\, developers\, security experts and others\, Seymour probes the human side of the machine\, asking what we’re getting out of it\, and what we’re getting into. \n‘Richard Seymour has a brilliant mind and a compelling style. Everything he writes is worth reading.’ – Gary Younge\, Editor-at-Large\, Guardian \n‘One of our most astute political analysts.’ – China Miéville\, author of October: The Story of the Russian Revolution \nTHIS IS A TICKETED EVENT – TICKETS AVAILABLE BELOW \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/the-twittering-machine-with-richard-seymour/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/TWITTER-M.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190911T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190911T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T001024 CREATED:20190726T120759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190726T120759Z UID:2113-1568228400-1568232000@housmans.com SUMMARY:‘Prison: a Survival Guide’\, with Carl Cattermole and Erika Flowers DESCRIPTION:Carl presents his essential guide to life in UK prisons – now fully updated and featuring contributions from female and LGBTQI prisoners\, as well as from family on the outside. Carl will be joined by Erika Flowers who will share her experience of Holloway women’s prison. \nCarl Cattermole is a young ex-inmate and legal reform campaigner. He spent time in five different UK prisons and\, sharing cells with international gangsters\, drug addicts\, psychopaths and sex offenders\, he formulated his idea for a book to help inmates cope with the unique challenges of prison life. \nThe book features contributors Sarah Jake Baker\, Jon Gulliver\, Darcey Hartley\, Julia Howard\, Elliot Murawski and Lisa Selby. \n\n\n‘Essential reading’\nWill Self \n‘We’re in the justice dark ages and Cattermole’s great book switches on the lights’\nDr Theo Kindynis\, Lecturer in Criminology Goldsmiths\, University of London\n\n‘It has the potential to change a lot of people’s lives for the better’\nDaniel Godden\, Partner at Berkeley Square Solicitors’ \n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/prison-a-survival-guide-with-carl-cattermole-and-erika-flowers/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/PRISON.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190918T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190918T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T001024 CREATED:20190730T153424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190803T161304Z UID:2125-1568833200-1568836800@housmans.com SUMMARY:‘Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century’ with Kehinde Andrews DESCRIPTION:Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism\, its rich past encompasses figures such as Marcus Garvey\, Angela Davis\, the Black Panthers and the Black Lives Matter activists of today. At its core it argues that racism is inexorably embedded in the fabric of society\, and that it can never be overcome unless by enacting change outside of this suffocating system. Yet this Black radicalism has been diluted and moderated over time; wilfully misrepresented and caricatured by others; divested of its legacy\, potency\, inclusivity and force for global change. \nKehinde Andrews explores the true roots of this tradition and connects the dots to today s struggles by showing what a renewed politics of Black radicalism might look like in the 21st century. \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/back-to-black-retelling-black-radicalism-for-the-21st-century-with-kehinde-andrews/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/P-1531189793-Back-to-Black-640x1015.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190926T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190926T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T001024 CREATED:20190803T162039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190810T105901Z UID:2430-1569524400-1569528000@housmans.com SUMMARY:FREE EVENT: AUTONOMY NOW - This Land is Ours: The Fight for Land Justice / Speakers from the Anarchist Communist Group DESCRIPTION:Land\, if we define it to include all physical resources such as water\, air and what lies beneath the ground\, is the source of all wealth and our very existence. However\, what should belong to all of us has been taken from us and concentrated in the hands of a small minority so that they own the land\, decide its use (usually to profit themselves) and control access to the benefits. All our struggles\, whether for housing\, community centres\, and good\, cheap food or against climate change are struggles over how land is used and who makes the decisions. \nThere has been a tradition of fighting for the land in Britain\, most recently in the Scottish movement for land reform. People are beginning to question the idea of private property and moving to more radical ideas such as the land being a Commons- owned and controlled by us all. This talk will first look at the question of who owns and controls the land in Britain (using material from the work of Andy Wightman on land ownership in Scotland and Guy Shrubsole’s new book- Who Owns England)\, consider what is being done in Scotland and elsewhere\, and then open the discussion on what changes we would like to see. \nThis meeting is organised by the Anarchist Communist Group at anarchistcommunism.org\nFor information on land see: the Anarchist Communist Group’s pamphlet Land and Liberty -available from all good radical bookshops. \nhttps://autonomynow.noblogs.org \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/free-event-autonomy-now-this-land-is-ours-the-fight-for-land-justice-speakers-from-the-anarchist-communist-group/ LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/LAND-JSUTICE-NETWORK.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR