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SUMMARY:Repeater Takeover: 'Steal as Much as You Can: How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity' with Nathalie Olah and Vicky Spratt
DESCRIPTION:Join journalists Nathalie Olah and Vicky Spratt to discuss the current state of today’s arts\, media and cultural industries\, at a time when a radical cultural response to our political moment is needed more than ever. \nSteal as Much as You Can is the story of how a generation that was lost for most of the 2010s – mired in debt\, stressed by precarious work\, prisoners to capitalist realism –came back at the end of the decade to kick against the privileged minority. If the early 2010s was the era of Nick Clegg and Mumford and Sons\, the late 2010s is the moment of Corbyn\, Stormzy and Cardi B: icons of a positive populism that holds little regard to establishment notions of taste and respectability. \nSteal as Much as You Can tackles the key problems facing cultural workers today: tastefulness\, inclusion and imposter syndrome\, and in response to the failures of our cultural class sets out “acts of theft” by which we can steal back agency and control over our lives. \nNathalie Olah is a journalist and editor based in London. Her writing focuses on the intersection between politics and contemporary culture\, with an emphasis on marginalised and working class communities. She has been published in Five Dials\, Dazed\, AnOther\, i-D\, The Guardian\, The Sunday Times\, The Independent and the Times Literary Supplement. \nVicky Spratt is an investigative journalist and campaigner who has extensively covered the housing crisis through her writing\, including for The i Paper where she writes weekly as Housing Correspondent. Her campaign “Make Renting Fair” highlighted the plight of a generation of renters and resulted in the government banning letting agency fees for tenants. Vicky has also reported on issues around mental health and contraception\, abortion rights and people trafficking. She also writes for Refinery29 where she is features editor and her book TENANTS: Stories of Britain’s Housing Shame will be published in 2020. \n  \nPUBLISHED BY REPEATER BOOKS https://repeaterbooks.com \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...
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LOCATION:Housmans Bookshop\, 5 Caledonian Road\, London\, N1 9DX
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SUMMARY:Autonomy Now presents: 'Journey Through Utopia' with Matthew S. Adams\, Rhiannon Firth\, and Tim Waterman
DESCRIPTION:January’s Autonomy Now event considers utopian thought in dystopian times.\nJoin Matthew S. Adams\, Rhiannon Firth\, and Tim Waterman for a lively discussion about historical and contemporary visions of utopia\, framed with reference to the life and writings of Marie Louise Berneri\, author of Journey through Utopia. \nBook description: \nJourney through Utopia is a richly detailed and critically compelling examination of utopian literature\, beginning with Plato’s Republic and continuing through to Huxley’s Brave New World. Utopias have been penned with diverse intentions: some as pictures of an ideal society\, some as blueprints for action\, yet others\, especially in times of severe censorship\, as covert criticisms of existing conditions. \nMarie Louise Berneri exposes the dark shadow that lingers above most utopian works by emphasising the intolerant and authoritarian nature of these visions\, and she warns of the doom that awaits those foolish enough to put their trust in an ordered and regimented world. \nThis new edition is framed with an Introduction from Matthew S. Adams that situates Berneri’s work in the context of her life\, and concludes with an Afterword from Rhiannon Firth that extends Berneri’s analysis into contemporary utopias. Journey through Utopia is a necessary companion\, and in many cases an antidote\, to imagined fictions from antiquity to the present. \nPraise for the book: \n\n“Marie Louise Berneri identifies the authoritarian Utopian State as a concept running through much of the literature. A desire to orchestrate good behaviour through various hierarchical arrangements\, analogous to a mechanical system with predictable results ensured by regulated consistent behavior\, is a dark shadow over many utopias.”  —Chris Carlsson\, author of Nowtopia\n“Berneri’s wide-ranging selection of readings constitutes a superb introduction to the history of utopian thought\, and her often brilliant and insightful commentary remains highly illuminating.”  —John P. Clark\, author of The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism\n“Berneri’s comments\, explicit and implicit\, are for the most part acutely discerning. . . . This is a fascinating work.”  —Times Literary Supplement\n\nSpeakers: \n\nMatthew S. Adams is lecturer in politics\, history\, and communication at Loughborough University. He is the author of Kropotkin\, Read\, and the Intellectual History of British Anarchismand co-editor of Anarchism\, 1914–1918 and The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism.\nRhiannon Firth is senior research officer in sociology at the University of Essex. Her research interests include utopian political theory\, anarchist social movements\, prefigurative spatial practices\, alternative epistemologies\, and critical pedagogy. She is the author of Utopian Politics: Citizenship and Practice\, which involved ethnographic research with several intentional communities\, housing cooperatives\, and autonomous social centres around the UK.\nTim Waterman is Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture\, University College London. Tim authored Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture\, which is now in its second edition from Bloomsbury and\, along with Ed Wall\, Basics Landscape Architecture: Urban Design. His writing is regularly found in the pages of Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM)\, The Architects’ Journal\, andGarden Design Journal\, among others.\n\nFREE ENTRY\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...
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