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:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220504T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220504T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20220328T133247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T161145Z UID:40490-1651690800-1651696200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Taking Control! Humanity and America After Trump and the Pandemic\, with Anthony Barnett [online event] DESCRIPTION:In 2020\, two mighty sets of forces battled for control of the United States. \n\n\n\nTrump led the charge\, threatening to continue his brand of racist\, gangster capitalism. Revolted by the prospect\, the Democrats\, influenced by Bernie Sanders\, mobilised voters in record numbers. But\, now in the White House\, can Biden and the liberal centre ally with progressives under the banner of humanity to renew democracy on Earth and save our ecosystem? \n\n\n\nFrom Anthony Barnett\, co-creator and former editor-in-chief of openDemocracy\, comes this blazing response to the confrontation between Trumpism and Biden in America\, that sets out how the future of humankind is at stake. As democracy rests on a knife edge in the USA\, changed forever in the wake of Black Lives Matter\, the ongoing climate crisis and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic\, Taking Control! shows how what is happening in America may yet give us hope for change across the world. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAnthony Barnett is the author of Iron Britannia\, Soviet Freedom\, This Time and The Lure of Greatness. He was the first Co-ordinator of Britain’s Charter 88\, Co-director of the Convention on Modern Liberty\, and was a founding Editor of openDemocracy from 2001-2007. \n\n\n\nMarcus Gilroy-Ware is the author of Filling the Void: Emotion\, Social Media and Capitalism\, and After the Fact?: The Truth About Fake News. He writes\, teaches\, researches\, creates and codes at the intersection of culture and communication. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. 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URL:https://housmans.com/event/taking-control-with-anthony-barnett-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Taking-Control-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20220328T132810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T133305Z UID:40485-1652295600-1652301000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales [online event] DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to imagine Wales and “The Welsh” as something both distinct and inclusive? \n\n\n\nFor many people\, Wales brings to mind the same old collection of images – if it’s not rugby\, sheep and rolling hills\, it’s the 3 Cs: castles\, coal\, and choirs. Heritage\, mining and the church are indeed integral parts of Welsh culture. But what of the other stories that point us toward a Welsh future? \n\n\n\nIn Welsh (Plural)\, some of the foremost current Welsh writers offer imaginative\, radical perspectives that take us beyond the clichés and binaries that so often shape thinking about Wales and Welshness. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nCharlotte Williams is an academic and writer. She is Honorary Professor in the School of History\, Philosophy and Social Sciences\, Bangor University. In 2020 she was appointed as Chair of the Ministerial Working Group: Communities\, Contributions and Cynefin: Black Asian Minority Ethnicities in the New Curriculum. \n\n\n\nMorgan Owen is an essayist and poet originally from Merthyr Tydfil. In 2019\, he won the Michael Marks Award for Poetry in a Celtic Language. His work often has a particular focus on the weaving of landscape\, temporality and identity. \n\n\n\nDarren Chetty has worked in education for twenty-five years. He is a co-editor of Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales. He is a contributor to the bestselling book The Good Immigrant\, edited by Nikesh Shukla. Darren co-authored What Is Masculinity? Why Does It Matter? And Other Big Questions and How To Disagree: Negotiate Difference in a Divided World. \n\n\n\nCerys Hafana is a musician from Machynlleth. She plays arrangements of Welsh folk tunes and songs\, alongside original compositions on the triple harp and piano. Cerys is also a member of Avane\, the Welsh youth folk ensemble\, and released her debut solo album\, Cwmwl\, last year. \n\n\n\nOriginally from Worcestershire\, Mike Parker has lived in mid Wales for over twenty years. The country has been his muse for TV and radio programmes\, and numerous books including Neighbours From Hell?\, Map Addict\, The Greasy Poll\, Real Powys and On the Red Hill. The latter won the 2020 nonfiction Wales Book of the Year and was runner up for the Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nCLICK HERE TO BOOK\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/welsh-plural-essays-on-the-future-of-wales-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Welsh-Plural-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220516T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220516T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20220307T150636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T161026Z UID:40123-1652727600-1652733000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia\, with Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan [online event] DESCRIPTION:Islamophobia is everywhere. It is a narrative and history woven so deeply into our everyday lives that we don’t even notice it – in our education\, how we travel\, our healthcare\, legal system and at work. Behind the scenes it affects the most vulnerable\, at the border and in prisons. Despite this\, the conversation about Islamophobia is relegated to microaggressions and slurs. \n\n\n\nSuhaiymah Manzoor-Khan reveals how Islamophobia not only lives under the skin of those who it marks\, but is an international political project designed to divide people in the name of security\, in order to materially benefit global stakeholders. It can only be truly uprooted when we focus not on what it is but what it does. \n\n\n\nTangled in Terror shows that until the most marginalised Muslims are safe\, nobody is safe. \n\n\n\nPart of the Pluto Outspoken series \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nSuhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a writer\, poet and educator disrupting understandings of history\, race\, knowledge and violence. \n\n\n\nmore speakers TBC \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. 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URL:https://housmans.com/event/tangled-in-terror-with-suhaiymah-manzoor-khan/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/tit-smk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220601T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220601T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20220307T155159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220531T103856Z UID:40135-1654110000-1654115400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Expansion Rebellion with Celeste Hicks [online event] DESCRIPTION:This is is a story of hope in the face of widespread consternation over the global climate crisis. For many people concerned about global warming\, the 2018 vote by UK parliamentarians to proceed with the plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport was a devastating blow. Aviation was predicted to make up some 25% of the UK’s carbon emissions by 2050 and so the decision seemed to fly in the face of the UK’s commitment to be a climate leader. \n\n\n\nCan the UK expand Heathrow airport\, bringing in 700 extra planes a day\, and still stay within ambitious carbon budgets? One legal case sought to answer this question. Campaigning lawyers argued that plans for a third runway at one of the world’s busiest airports would jeopardise the UK’s ability to meet its commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. \n\n\n\nThis book traces the dramatic story of how the case was prepared – and why international aviation has for so long avoided meaningful limits on its expansion. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nCeleste Hicks is a freelance journalist and author. She was the BBC correspondent in Chad for many years and has lived in Chad\, Mali\, and Somalia. \n\n\n\nAlethea Warrington is a campaigns manager at climate charity Possible\, which works on positive\, practical action on climate change. Ali leads on Possible’s work on energy decarbonisation and cutting emissions from aviation. Her aviation work includes managing published research projects on consumer travel choices and job creation from a modal shift away from plane travel\, running Possible’s campaign for a frequent flyer levy and managing Possible’s ongoing research project with Chatham House quantifying the potential for technological solutions to decarbonise aviation. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. 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URL:https://housmans.com/event/expansion-rebellion-with-celeste-hicks-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/9781526162359.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220606T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220606T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20220516T103641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220524T140146Z UID:41280-1654542000-1654547400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Girl Online with Joanna Walsh DESCRIPTION:What happens when a woman goes online? She becomes a girl. \n\n\n\nThe unwritten contract of the internet\, that a user is what is used\, extends from the well-examined issue of data privacy and consent to the very selves women are encouraged to create in order to appear. Invited to self-construct as ‘girls online’\, vloggers\, bloggers and influencers sign a devil’s bargain: a platform on the condition they commodify themselves\, eternally youthful\, cute and responsibility-free\, hiding offline domestic\, professional and emotional labour while paying for their online presence with ‘accounts’ of personal ‘experience’. Can a Girl Online use these platforms not only to escape meatspace oppressions\, but as spaces for survival\, creativity and resistance? \n\n\n\nTold via the arresting personal narrative of one woman negotiating the (cyber)space between her identities as girl\, mother\, writer\, and commodified online persona\, Girl Online is written in a plethora of the online styles\, from programming language to the blog/diary\, from tweets to lyric prose\, taking in selfies\, social media\, celebrity and Cyberfeminism. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nJoanna Walsh is a multidisciplinary writer for print\, digital and performance. The author of seven books\, including Hotel\, Vertigo\, Worlds from the Word’s End and Break*up she also works as a critic\, editor\, teacher and arts activist. She is a UK Arts Foundation fellow\, and the recipient of the Markievicz Award in the Republic of Ireland. She founded and ran #readwomen (2014-18)\, described by the New York Times as “a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers” and currently runs @noentry_arts. \n\n\n\nJuliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published three books: Rayner Heppenstall: A Critical Study (Dalkey Archive\, 2007); Trans: A Memoir (Verso\, 2015); and a volume of short stories\, Variations (Influx Press\, 2021). Her fourth\, Front Lines: Trans Journalism 2007-2021\, is due out on Cipher Press in July 2022. Her work has appeared in the Guardian\, for whom she documented her gender reassignment in a series entitled A Transgender Journey (2010-12) as well as London Review of Books\, Granta\, Sight & Sound\, Frieze\, Art Review\, New York Times\, The Washington Post\, TimeOut\, The New Statesman and many other places. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. 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URL:https://housmans.com/event/girl-online-with-joanna-walsh/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Feminist event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/9781839765353.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220608T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220608T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20220516T142411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220607T103735Z UID:41291-1654714800-1654720200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Tenants with Vicky Spratt DESCRIPTION:The urgent story of this country’s biggest crisis\, told through the lives of those it most affects \n\n\n\nTony is facing eviction instead of enjoying retirement; Limarra isn’t ‘homeless enough’ to get help from the council; and for Kelly and her asthmatic son Morgan\, another new rented house is a matter of life and death. This is twenty-first century Britain\, where millions are forced into the private rental sector – a sector that creates profit for landlords\, not safe and stable homes for tenants. \n\n\n\nIn this fierce and moving account\, journalist Vicky Spratt traces decades of bad policy decisions to show how and why the British dream of homeownership has withered and the safety net of social housing has broken. Through the lives of those in the renting trap\, she illuminates the ways this crisis is devastating our health\, communities and political landscape. But\, as the Covid epidemic showed\, there are also real\, radical steps we can take to give everyone the chance of a good home. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nVicky Spratt is a journalist whose work regularly shapes public policy. Her 2016 campaign ‘Make Renting Fair’ led to letting fees in England and Wales being banned\, and she has spoken at political conferences\, all-party parliamentary groups and panels across the country on the issue of housing. She has appeared on BBC News\, Newsnight\, Woman’s Hour\, Radio 4 and NTS Radio. In 2020\, she was nominated as Journalist of the Year at the Drum Awards for Online Media\, and in 2021 her stories delving deep into Britain’s housing emergency saw her shortlisted for a British Journalism award. She is currently the i Paper’s Housing Correspondent and a writer and editor at Refinery29. \n\n\n\nNick Bano is a tenants’ rights lawyer and campaigner. He writes regularly about the housing crisis for Tribune and other publications\, and is currently writing a book. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/tenants-with-vicky-spratt/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/9781788161275.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220615T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220615T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20220516T141501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220524T140049Z UID:41285-1655319600-1655325000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Charged with Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone DESCRIPTION:Who do the police protect? An investigation into 40 years of battling protest that reveals a hidden police agenda against dissent. \n\n\n\nCharged is an essential investigation into the role of policing protest in Britain today. As the UK government tries to suppress all forms of dissent\, in their pursuit of more control\, how do the police manage crowds\, provoke violence and even break the law? \n\n\n\nSince the 1980s under successive governments the police have been allowed to suppress protests\, using aggressive tactics—from batons to horse charges to kettling. The landscape of how police deal with protest changed following criticism of the police during the 1981 Brixton riots. New military-style tactics were sanctioned by the Thatcher government\, in secret. Over the next forty years those protesting against racism\, unfair job losses\, draconian laws\, or for environmental protection were subject to brutal tactics. In the aftermath\, media attention denigrates protesters while the police are praised and continue to act with impunity. \n\n\n\nLooking through these moments of conflict widens our understanding of policing public order to reveal the true character of the state. Since the 1980s successive governments\, from Thatcher to Johnson\, covertly plot to suppress protests\, using standardised aggressive tactics\, from batons to horse charges to kettling. Through undisclosed documents and eyewitness accounts the authors reveal organised police violence against miners at Orgreave\, print workers at Warrington\, anti poll tax campaigners\, student protestors and Black Lives Matter. The voices of protesters have been undeterred. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nMatt Foot is a criminal defence Solicitor. He specialises in representing protestors and victims of miscarriages of justice. As a campaigning lawyer\, he co-founded Justice Alliance to protect legal aid and Asbo Concern. He has also written in the Guardian and the London Review of Books. \n\n\n\nMorag Livingstone is an award-winning documentary filmmaker\, writer and internationally published author. She is also a lecturer and tutor in photojournalism\, moving image and storytelling. \n\n\n\nJoe Rollin is an organiser in Unite the Unions National Organising and Leverage Department and a founding member of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/charged-with-matt-foot-and-morag-livingstone/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/9781839762499-f35f3425f1355e00d6c9ff443c0b623f.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220621T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220621T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20220607T132645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220607T132647Z UID:41773-1655838000-1655843400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Doreen Massey: Selected Political Writings DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with Lawrence Wishart Books\n\n\n\nDoreen Massey was one of the most influential human geographers of the post-war period. A key feminist and socialist thinker\, she brought geographical inequality to the fore of left politics. Through her activism\, she combined a focus on class with a prescient awareness of its intersections with gender\, race and sexuality.This book is a collection of Doreen Massey’s essential political writings\, from reflections on support groups during the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike to assessments of the Sandinistas’ spatial policies and ownership campaigns relating to Liverpool Football Club. It gives a vivid sense of Massey’s dynamic style as a left public intellectual whose work impacted major political initiatives\, and introduces her important ‘politics of place’ to a new generation of activists. \n\n\n\nDoreen Massey was a pioneering radical geographer\, theorist and activist\, whose work challenged how we understand space\, place and power. This collection of her writings brings together articles on social justice and previously un-digitised essays\, for a fresh insight into Massey’s political commitments. It aims to give geographers a better sense of her political commitments while introducing her theory of location to a new generation of social justice activists. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nDavid Featherstone is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Resistance\, Space and Political Identities: the Making of Counter-Global Networks and Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism. He is a member of the editorial collectives of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography and Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture. He holds a PhD from the Open University. \n\n\n\nDiarmaid Kelliher is a postdoctoral researcher and trade unionist at the University of Glasgow. His book\, Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike was published by Routledge in May 2021. \n\n\n\nHilary Wainwright is co-editor of Red Pepper and research director of the New Politics Project of the Transnational Institute\, Amsterdam. Her most recent books include Public Service Reform: But Not As We Know It! (Compass/UNISON) and Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy (Seagull). \n\n\n\nDr Ulises Moreno-Tabarez is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics. He is also a Research Associate for LSE London and Associated Academic at the Latin American and Caribbean Centre. He serves as a core Editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal City: Analysis of Urban Change\, Theory\, Action. He holds a PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies from the LSE. \n\n\n\nAmelia Horgan is a writer\, researcher and editor from London. She is currently a PhD candidate on work at the University of Essex’s School of Philosophy and Art History. Her first book\, Lost in Work (Pluto Press) came out in June 2021. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/doreen-massey-selected-political-writings/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Literary Event,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LW_books_series_ops_2-pages-7_page-0001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220622T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220622T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20220307T152925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T160951Z UID:40130-1655924400-1655929800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Race to the Bottom: Reclaiming Antiracism\, with Azfar Shafi and Ilyas Nagdee [online event] DESCRIPTION:Antiracist movements are more mainstream than ever before. Liberal democracies boast of their policies designed to stamp out racism in all walks of life. Why then is racism still ever-present in our society? \n\n\n\nThis is not an accident\, but by design. Capitalism is structured by racism and has relentlessly attacked powerful movements. Race to the Bottom traces our current crisis back decades\, to the fragmentation of Britain’s Black Power movements and their absorption into NGOs and the Labour Party. \n\n\n\nThe authors call for recovering radical histories of antiracist struggle\, championing modern activism and infusing them with the urgency of our times: replacing anxieties over ‘unconscious bias’ and rival claims for ‘representation’ with the struggle for a new\, socialist\, multi-racial organising from below. \n\n\n\nPart of the Pluto Outspoken series. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAzfar Shafi is a researcher and organiser with a focus on policing\, counter-terrorism and imperialism. He has been published by the Transnational Institute and Novara Media\, and organised in movements against racism\, state violence and for the Palestinian liberation struggle. \n\n\n\nIlyas Nagdee is an activist and writer focusing on anti-racism\, civil liberties and policing. He has written for the Independent\, Guardian and HuffPost\, and has appeared on BBC\, ITV and Sky News. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO BUY TICKETS OR RSVP TO THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/race-to-the-bottom-with-azfar-shafi-and-ilyas-nagdee-online-event/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rttb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220629T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220629T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20220516T143047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T143453Z UID:41297-1656529200-1656534600@housmans.com SUMMARY:High Desert with Andre Naffis-Sahely DESCRIPTION:High Desert is a psychedelic journal of end-times and an ode to the American Southwest. Exploring such key events as the First Red Scare\, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast’s wildfire epidemic\, Naffis-Sahely’s reflections on class\, race\, and nationalism chart the region’s hidden histories from the Spanish Colonial Era to the recent pandemic. The poems in High Desert also revel in their rootlessness\, as the author shifts his gaze outside of the US\, travelling from Venice and Florence to Chittagong and St Petersburg\, tackling our turbulent times and the depths of its problems in searing\, extraordinary poems of witness and vision. \n\n\n\nHigh Desert is André Naffis-Sahely’s second collection\, following his debut The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin Books\, 2017)\, a gathering of portraits of promised lands and those who go in search of them: travellers\, labourers\, dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. It includes poems from his recent pamphlet The Other Side of Nowhere (Rough Trade Books\, 2019). All his collections present poetry as reportage\, as much an act of memory as of sinuous\, clear-eyed vision. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nAndré Naffis-Sahely is a poet\, editor and translator\, and editor of Poetry London. He is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at the Manchester Writing School in the UK\, and a Lecturer at University of California\, Davis\, in the US. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/high-desert-with-andre-naffis-sahely/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/60e715af36a96.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220713T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220713T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20220516T143431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T143459Z UID:41301-1657738800-1657744200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Against the Law with David Renton DESCRIPTION:Should we shrink the law? One of Britain’s leading social justice barristers puts the case against the constant expansion of the law into new areas\, and its greater control over more and more of our lives. \n\n\n\nSince 2016\, Britain has been ruled by populists\, who have promised to expand democracy and decrease the law by taking back power from abroad. Yet what these populists have actually done is institute a vast increase in new laws\, made by ministers and not Parliament\, regulating every aspect of our lives. \n\n\n\nAgainst this backdrop of ever-increasing laws and regulations\, Renton argues that instead of seeking change within the bounds of the law\, social movements should rather look to their own ability to force change\, their willingness to protest\, occupy and strike. \n\n\n\nAgainst the Law dares us to imagine a world in which workers are winning\, and ecocide is treated with the urgency that it deserves. But as this book argues\, this world can only become a reality if the movements of the oppressed choose to disengage from the law. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nDavid Renton is one of Britain’s leading social justice barristers. His clients have included Occupy protesters and blacklisted trade unionists. He writes regularly on law and justice for The Guardian and The London Review of Books. \n\n\n\nmore speakers tbc \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/against-the-law-with-david-renton/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/b3622dc7-e2b4-485f-a0ac-7cb60a25f7e8-scaled-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220718T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220718T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20220714T161536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220714T162120Z UID:42336-1658170800-1658176200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Mixed Narratives DESCRIPTION:Laila Woozeer\, Natasha Devon and Jackson Bliss on creating a narrative framework to discuss mixed stories \n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nIn this conversation\, we will discuss our various approaches to telling mixed stories\, consider some of the existing frameworks for understanding the experiences of mixed people\, and weigh up how useful those have been and if they impacted our own choices in the writing and telling of our stories. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nLaila Woozeer\, writer\, musician and author of Not Quite White \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaila Woozeer is a queer non-binary London-born writer and musician who grew up in rural Wales\, fully enchanted by the ancient magic found there. Laila’s work ranges from award-winning soundtracks\, off-the-wall theatre shows and original songwriting. Laila is a long-term vegan\, practising mixed-religion sorceress\, lover of all things pink and/or shiny\, rescue snake owner\, overuser of major sevenths\, and avid arcade gamer. \n\n\n\nNatasha Devon activist\, writer\, presenter and author of Toxic \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNatasha Devon MBE is a writer\, presenter & activist. She tours schools\, universities and events throughout the world\, delivering talks as well as conducting research on mental health\, body image\, gender and equality. \n\n\n\nNatasha is founder of the Mental Health Media Charter\, a Trustee of Student Minds\, a Patron for No Panic and an Ambassador for Glitch and the Reading Agency. \n\n\n\nJackson Bliss\, author and screenwriter \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJackson Bliss is the winner of the 2020 Noemi Book Award in Prose and the mixed-race/hapa author of Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments\, Amnesia of June Bugs\, Dream Pop Origami\, and the speculative hypertext\, Dukkha\, My Love. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, Guernica\, Boston Review\, TriQuarterly\, Kenyon Review\, Huffington Post UK\, STAND\, and Hypertext\, among others. He lives in LA with his wife and their two fashionably dressed dogs. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP OR BUY A TICKET TO THIS EVENT\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/mixed-narratives-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/not-quite-white-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220721T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220721T204500 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20220703T135620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220703T140616Z UID:42106-1658430000-1658436300@housmans.com SUMMARY:A Black Feminist Book Club DESCRIPTION:A (monthly) book club for Black women\, femmes and non-binary people to focus on self care\, empowerment and community connections. \n\n\n\nThis month we’re back at Housmans Bookshop. \n\n\n\nOur July pick is Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo by Rebecca Walker. \n\n\n\nFeel free to bring snacks. We’ll hang around after the event for a bit of late night shopping\, socialising and some tunes. You’ll also get a 20% discount on Black feminist books purchased on the night. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/a-black-feminist-book-club/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion group,Feminist event,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230920T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230920T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20230831T113302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230831T113936Z UID:51037-1695236400-1695241800@housmans.com SUMMARY:How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?  Voices of Indian Political Prisoners. Book talk with Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia in conversation with Isabel Buchanan DESCRIPTION:A powerful look at authoritarian India through the experiences of political prisoners \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJoin Suchitra Vijayan\, Francesca Recchia and Isabel Buchanan to discuss HOW LONG CAN THE MOON BE CAGED? VOICES OF INDIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS. \n\n\n\nSilencing and punishing critical voices is a project that lies at the heart of Narendra Modi’s authoritarian regime in India. The BJP’s political dream is clear: to achieve the ethno-nationalist aim of an exclusively ‘Hindu’ India\, while targeting anyone who dares to question or dissent. \n\n\n\nIn this unique book\, Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia look at the present of India through the lived experiences of political prisoners. Combining political and legal analysis with firsthand testimonies\, the book explores the small gestures that constitute resistance inside and outside jail for the prisoners and their families\, telling a story of destruction of institutions and erosion of rights. \n\n\n\nHow Long Can the Moon Be Caged? includes visual testimonies and prison writings from those falsely accused of inciting the Bhima Koregaon violence\, by student leaders opposing the new discriminatory citizenship law passed in 2020\, and by activists from the Pinjra Tod’s movement. In bringing together these voices\, the book celebrates the courage\, humanity and moral integrity of those jailed for standing in solidarity with marginalised and oppressed communities. \n\n\n\nAbout the speakers \n\n\n\nSuchitra Vijayan is the author of the critically acclaimed Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India. Born and raised in Madras\, India\, her work has appeared in The Washington Post\, GQ\, The Boston Review\, The Nation and Foreign Policy and she has appeared on NBC news\, BBC World Service and NPR. She is an award-winning photographer\, founding member and Executive Director of The Polis Project. \n\n\n\nFrancesca Recchia is an independent researcher and writer. She is the editor\, creative director and a founding member of The Polis Project\, Inc. Francesca lived and worked for a decade in Afghanistan where\, among other things\, was the Acting Director of the Institute for Afghan Arts and Architecture and the Culture Specialist for the Aga Khan Trust for culture. She is interested in the geopolitical dimension of cultural processes and in recent years has focused her research on the relation between (tangible and intangible) heritage\, politics and creative practices in countries in conflict. Her practice-based work is grounded on an interdisciplinary approach that combines Heritage\, Design\, Visual and Cultural Studies. \n\n\n\nIsabel Buchanan is a human rights lawyer who has also been a caseworker for Justice Project Pakistan\, providing pro bono representation to persons facing the death penalty in Pakistan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets for this event are £3\, or free entry with a purchase of the book using the link below. If you are unwaged\, or unable to afford a ticket for any other reason\, please email us at shop@housmans.com so that we can put a free ticket aside for you. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/how-long-can-the-moon-be-caged-voices-of-indian-political-prisoners-book-talk-with-suchitra-vijayan-and-francesca-recchia-in-conversation-with-isabel-buchanan/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231004T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231004T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20230829T163204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T092213Z UID:50989-1696446000-1696451400@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Shoulders We Stand On: Preeti Dhillon and Sheela Banerjee DESCRIPTION:Our right to protest is in jeopardy and it’s more important than ever to understand the history that lies behind our current era of activism. Join authors Preeti Dhillon and Sheela Banerjee to discuss the legacy of protest against colonialism and persecution of people of colour in the UK.   \n\n\n\nJournalist\, academic and ex-TV producer Sheela Banerjee’s fascinating first book WHAT’S IN A NAME unravels the personal histories of friends and family through their names. And while tracing their heritage across centuries and continents – from west London to British India\, and from 1960s Jamaica to pre-Revolutionary Russia. \n\n\n\nResearcher and historian Preeti Dhillon’s THE SHOULDERS WE STAND ON tells the story of ten remarkable movements\, campaigns and organisations led by Black and Brown people across Britain from the sixties to the eighties that fought against racism and capitalism and their impact on the way we live now. \n\n\n\nPreeti Dhillon is a researcher\, author and historian\, whose work tells stories hidden from the mainstream narrative. She works in the international development and humanitarian sector\, and has a BA in History and Politics from the University of Oxford\, and an MA in International Development and Public Policy. Preeti has written for Shout Out UK and The Rights Collective and was longlisted for Penguin WriteNow 2020. \n\n\n\nSheela Banerjee is a journalist and academic and worked for many years at the BBC and Channel 4\, directing programmes which told powerful stories of individual lives. She has also worked as a radio reporter and BBC producer on current affairs and political programmes. She left TV to undertake a PhD on Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot. What’s in a Name? is her first book. \n\n\n\nTickets for this event are £3\, or free entry with a purchase of the book using the link below. If you are unwaged\, or unable to afford a ticket for any other reason\, please email us at shop@housmans.com so that we can put a free ticket aside for you. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/the-shoulders-we-stand-on-preeti-dhillon-and-sheela-banerjee/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231027T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231027T223000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20230930T154217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231027T161728Z UID:51716-1698433200-1698445800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: We Hear Only Ourselves by Bill Cashmore DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome Bill Cashmore to Housmans to celebrate the publication of her exciting new book ‘We Hear Only Ourselves’. As Étienne Balibar says\, this book is a ‘beautiful breakthrough by enormously gifted young philosopher.’ We Hear Only Ourselves is a study of utopia and its contradictions. If a future beyond capitalism cannot be imagined\, what is the place of utopia today? The answer\, Cashmore argues\, lies beyond either idle speculation or merely hopeful optimism. We Hear Only Ourselves seeks a concept of utopia which is strengthened\, not undermined\, by its contradictions. From the dialectics of the Frankfurt School to the energetics of resistance in the writings of the Black Panthers\, this book draws on a wide range of thought to offer a new concept of utopia\, one adequate for our present moment. \n\n\n\nBill will be in conversation with Matt Colquhoun\, followed by an open discussion. \n\n\n\nThere are free tickets available. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/book-launch-we-hear-only-ourselves-by-bill-cashmore/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/F7ImCNWW8AARXHq-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231122T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231122T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20231102T130529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T133532Z UID:52338-1700679600-1700685000@housmans.com SUMMARY:VAGUE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF ANARCHO-PUNK FANZINES: with Tom Vague and Tony D (Ripped And Torn/Kill Your Pet Puppy) hosted by MayDay Rooms DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the publication\, by PC-Press (www.pc-press.co.uk) of a brand new compendium ‘Vague Fanzines Book\, Vol. 1: 1979-1984: Issues 1-15’\, which lovingly reproduces the first 15 issues of Vague in A4-sized full colour\, we welcome to Housmans Tom Vague in discussion with Tony D\, to talk about the impact Vague had\, and also on anarcho-punk zine culture more widely. \n\n\n\nVague was a fanzine that tuned so many people on to the joy of punk and the futuristic and hybrid styled music that followed it\, that became known as ‘Post-Punk’ or for a period of time ‘Positive Punk’. Vague promoted the notion that a band meant something more than the music and that meaning could be shared amongst like-minded folk\, the ‘lovable spikey tops’ or the like-minded ‘tribe’ that people were looking for. Vague though was critical enough to see through the growing number of punk bands who were seduced by the world of popstardom and teen adulation. \n\n\n\nThat disillusion often turned into a searching for the counter culture\, or philosophy and radical politics\, to find something that could inspire us to be different and to change the world around us. Vague became the go to critical counter cultural fanzine that still found music irresistible but wasn’t just a fawning FAN zine. Vague also importantly had a sense of humour\, it could laugh at itself as well as brag about how good it was and slag off those it found wanting! \n\n\n\nTom Vague\, the long-running editor of Vague\, will be joined by Tony D\, the man behind the classic punk zines Ripped and Torn\, and also Kill Your Pet Puppy. The event will be hosted by MayDay Rooms\, whose archival work celebrates and preserves radical print cultures and DIY Independent publishing house PC-Press who have published Vague volume 1 and also books about Test Dept\, Massive Attack\, Killing Joke\, NSK State and a Post-punk novel; Looking For A Kiss by Richard Cabut. \n\n\n\nThe event will be hosted by MayDay Rooms\, whose archival work celebrates and preserves radical print cultures. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/vague-and-the-importance-of-anarcho-punk-fanzines-with-tom-vague-and-tony-d-ripped-and-torn-kill-your-pet-puppy-hosted-by-mayday-rooms-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/VAGUE-COMPENDIUM-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231124T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231124T213000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20231027T151714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231123T115115Z UID:52241-1700852400-1700861400@housmans.com SUMMARY:LAUNCH: 'Deeping It: Colonialism\, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill' by Adèle Oliver DESCRIPTION:We are very excited to welcome Adèle Oliver to celebrate the London launch of her vital\, erudite and exacting book ‘Deeping It: Colonialism\, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill’. Adèle will be joined by fellow members of the Art Not Evidence group\, a brand new charity launching this month. \n\n\n\nArt Not Evidence is a new coalition comprising senior lawyers\, journalists\, academics\, youthworkers\, music industry professionals\, and human rights campaigners. Their mission is to fight for a fairer criminal justice system by advocating for a restriction on the use of creative and artistic expression as evidence in criminal trials. They believe that art\, including music\, should be protected as a fundamental form of freedom of expression and should not be used to unfairly implicate individuals in criminal charges. \n\n\n\n The main focus of the discussion will be Adèle’s book ‘Deeping It’ an analysis of drill’s fight against moral panic and its fraught relationship with the police and political authority in the UK\, exemplified by constant censorship\, racism\, and moments such as when a drill duo became the first people in British legal history to receive a prison sentence for simply performing a song. Policing\, policy and criminalization are the cornerstones of colonial suppression; art\, self-expression and collective action are beacons of resistance. Deeping It places drill firmly in the latter category\, tracing its production and criminalization across borders and eras of the British Empire\, exploring drill’s artistic singularity but also its inherent threat as a Black artform in a world that prioritizes whiteness. Intervening on this discourse steeped in anti-Blackness\, this Inkling ‘deeps’ how the criminalization of UK drill cannot be disentangled from histories\, technologies\, and realities of colonialism and consumerism. \n\n\n\nThere are free tickets available. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/launch-deeping-it-colonialism-culture-criminalisation-of-uk-drill-by-adele-oliver/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DEEPINGITclear-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231208T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231208T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20231123T122016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231208T113545Z UID:52923-1702062000-1702067400@housmans.com SUMMARY:'The Broken Promise of Infrastructure' Dominic Davies in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Sivamohan Valluvan\, chaired by Emma Parker DESCRIPTION:‘The Broken Promise of Infrastructure’ Dominic Davies in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Sivamohan Valluvan\, chaired by Emma Parker\n\n\n\n\n\nDrawing on examples from Rhodes’s railways to the tragedy of Grenfell\, The Broken Promise of Infrastructure takes readers on a journey through a cultural history of infrastructure development across Britain and its Empire. \n\n\n\nThe Broken Promise of Infrastructure tackles the divisive cultural politics that have been used to deflect attention away from Britain’s failing infrastructure\, from Brexit through to the ‘levelling up’ agenda and beyond. Building on more than a decade of research\, Davies argues that infrastructure projects are always far more than concrete and steel: they can reinforce nationalist narratives\, undermine regional identities\, and place real limits on our politics. By exposing the geographies of race\, class\, and gender that still govern the way infrastructure is imagined\, Davies invites us to break open these limits and ask what – or rather who – really makes Britain work. \n\n\n\nThe promise of ‘levelling up’ has been broken. With case studies that range from Stoke-on-Trent and South Africa to Silicon Valley\, Davies shows that this broken promise runs back through broader histories of industry and empire. As racial capitalism maintains its iron grip on Britain and the climate crisis becomes daily more apparent\, this book argues that there has never been a more urgent time to challenge dominant ways of thinking about infrastructure\, and to reclaim its world-shaping force for ourselves. \n\n\n\n“An exhilarating journey through time and space… This exciting book explains why the performative politics of planning and architecture are far too important to be left to the professionals”– Vron Ware\, author of Return of a Native: Learning from the LandDominic Davies is an academic and author whose research focuses on how infrastructure is lived\, imagined\, and experienced. He is particularly interested in the cultural politics of infrastructure as they take shape through contexts of empire\, nationalism\, and racial capitalism. \n\n\n\nDom is the author and editor of several book\, articles\, and chapters relating to these topics\, including most recently The Broken Promise of Infrastructure. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in English at City\, University of London. More information about his research is available at drdomdavies.com.Elleke Boehmer is a founding figure in the field of colonial and postcolonial literary studies\, and internationally known for her research in the anglophone literatures of empire and anti-empire.  \n\n\n\nSivamohan Valluvan is an Assistant Professor in the department of Sociology at the University of Warwick\, and author of ‘The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and Nation in Twenty-First Century Britain \n\n\n\nEmma Parker is a Lecturer in Literature and Gender at the University of Bristol\, and author of ‘Life Writing and the End of Empire. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/the-broken-promise-of-infrastructure-dominic-davies-in-conversation-with-elleke-boehmer-and-sivamohan-valluvan-chaired-by-emma-parker/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/The-Broken-Promise-of-Infrastructure2-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240125T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240125T213000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20231219T154725Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240125T180354Z UID:53484-1706209200-1706218200@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Pocket Guide to the Patriarchy: Maya Oppenheim in conversation with Nadia Whittome MP DESCRIPTION:Housmans are absolutely delighted to welcome writer and journalist Maya Oppenheim to the shop alongside the brilliant Nadia Whittome MP to celebrate the publication of Maya’s new book\, ‘The Pocket Guide to Patriarchy’. \n\n\n\nAcross the world\, women are still denied opportunities and rights. The home remains the most dangerous place for women to be worldwide; with the majority of homicide victims who are women being killed by partners or relatives. In some countries\, women who get abortions after they are raped face jail time. Less than 20 per cent of landholders in the world are women. Despite all these truths\, many would prefer to blame women. For not demanding a seat at the table. For walking home alone at night. For not working hard enough to overcome the odds that are stacked against them. In her fact-filled\, inclusive and energising book\, Maya Oppenheim supplies you with the unforgettable realities\, real-world anecdotes and tales of resistance to help you combat denial and continued injustice as the far-right grows and women’s rights come under attack. If yet another rebuttal of patriarchy leaves you lost for words\, this book can be pulled out of your pocket. \n\n\n\nMaya and Nadia will unpick the book’s major themes together\, tacking issues such as women’s health\, sexual Violence\, the criminal justice system\, sex work\, policing and reproductive rights. \n\n\n\nThis will be followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nThere are free tickets available. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/the-pocket-guide-to-the-patriarchy-maya-oppenheim-in-conversation-with-nadia-whittome-mp/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/hbg-title-9781398718746-42.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240216T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240216T213000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20231222T164527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240210T180520Z UID:53622-1708110000-1708119000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: Dear Lettera 32 by Cat Chong DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate the publication of Cat Chong’s ‘Dear Lettera 32’\, the first physical publication by PermeableBarrier\, an online journal of art and poetry. Cat Chong\, one of our most exciting young up and coming poets\, will be joined by special guest readers: Nisha Ramayya\, JD Howse\, Briony Hughes and Kat Sinclair. \n\n\n\nDear Lettera 32\, Cat’s second collection\, is a text that revels in contradictions\, and in doing so gives the lie to our comfortable assumptions about the act of writing in and of itself. Refusing to capitulate to the reassurances of singular address\, Cat Chong draws from the world around them to create a kaleidoscope of hope and longing\, divinity and corruption\, esoterica and hypermodernity. Confessional\, lyrical\, yet densely packed with theory\, Chong uses an encounter with a typewriter as the inspiration for a migration across the possibilities of poetry. The resulting work is a deeply readable yet visually jarring text that evades easy categorisation. Is this an epistolary novel? A diary? A poem? Chong inhabits multiple spaces while rejecting the easy categorisation that any of them might offer\, instead opening up their work to the creative possibility of discomfort. \n\n\n\nOur Readers: \n\n\n\nCat Chong is a poet whose work considers the intersections between genre\, genderqueerness\, disability\, and chronic illness. Their debut collection 712 stanza homes for the sun was published in 2023 by Broken Sleep Books\, and is available to purchase from their website. Cat is currently the digital editor at Osmosis Press\, where they publish poetry by a wide variety of writers interested in pushing boundaries and crossing borders. They’re a graduate of the Poetic Practice MA at Royal Holloway\, a PhD student at Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore\, and visiting PhD fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. Cat can be found on instagram and twitter @marbledmayhem. \n\n\n\nNisha Ramayya grew up in Glasgow and now lives in London. Her poetry collection States of the Body Produced by Love (2019) is published by Ignota Books. Her second collection will be published by Grantain 2024. Tentatively called Now Let’s Take a Listening Walk\, it hazards a musical journey through history\, myth\, and sci fi. \n\n\n\nBriony Hughes teaches poetry at Royal Holloway University\, where she is currently completing her PhD. She is Poet in Residence at the University of Surrey\, editor at Osmosis Press\, and co-edits the poetry feature in Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine. She lives in Berkshire with her partner and their two rabbits. \n\n\n\nKat Sinclair is a poet from Southampton. She is the author of Very Authentic Person (The 87 Press)\, Please Press (Sad Press)\, and upcoming publication The Pharmacy. \n\n\n\nJD Howse works across poetry\, essay\, collage\, and fiction. He is the author of a number of books including Just Meat Not God\, This Is A Dagger\, and Noises Again. He runs PermeableBarrier and works as a producer for a publishing company.Sent from my iPhone \n\n\n\nThere are free tickets available. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/book-launch-dear-lettera-32-by-cat-chong/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Dear-Lettera-32-by-Cat-Chong-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240227T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240227T213000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20231219T164112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240227T175708Z UID:53522-1709060400-1709069400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: "Mick Lynch: The making of a working-class hero" by Gregor Gall DESCRIPTION:We are very excited to welcome Professor Gregor Gall to the bookshop to celebrate the publication of his new book about Mick Lynch\, the celebrated trade unionist and General Secretary of the RMT. \n\n\n\n In the summer of 2022\, the little-known leader of a small union became a ‘working-class hero’. Facing down media pundits who thought they could walk all over him\, he offered a robust critique of the government and capitalism\, and in doing so\, provided workers with an authentic voice. At a time when Labour was unable to articulate a credible alternative to the Tories\, Mick Lynch spoke for the working class. \n\n\n\nThis book\, the first biography of Lynch\, asks and answers the questions: Where did he come from? How did he develop the skills and traits that make him such an effective spokesperson? How has his leadership fared in the heat of battle? The book\, both a celebration and critique of Lynch\, explores his persona and politics\, as well as the political period he operates in and the potential power of his members. It holds lessons for all workers and their unions.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/book-launch-mick-lynch-the-making-of-a-working-class-hero-by-gregor-gall/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Mick-Lynch-cover1519.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240229T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240229T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20240202T172307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240202T172310Z UID:54365-1709231400-1709238600@housmans.com SUMMARY:‘Eaten By The Internet’ with Corinne Cath and Fieke Jansen [at Space4\, Finsbury Park] DESCRIPTION:‘Eaten By The Internet’ with Corinne Cath and Fieke Jansen [at Space4\, Finsbury Park] \n\n\n\nHousmans has proudly teamed up with Space4 and the FUTURES Podcast to present a series of live events regarding the impacts of capitalism on digital technology \n\n\n\nIn this first session we’ll be hosting Dr. Corinne Cath and Dr. Fieke Jansen to talk about the politics of internet infrastructure – the theme of their newest book Eaten by the Internet. \n\n\n\nEaten by the Internet makes internet infrastructure visible as a force of political power\, transforming the social world from the bottom up. It is made up of fifteen chapters\, contributed by a global set of researchers\, activists\, and techies. \n\n\n\nDr. Cath is the editor of Eaten by the Internet. She is a cultural anthropologist studying the politics of Internet infrastructure and cloud computing. Her current focus is on the adequacy of existing EU technology policy efforts that touch on cloud computing. \n\n\n\nDr. Jansen is one of the contributors to the book. She is a tech skeptic\, researcher\, educator and advocate on the impact of technology on society. Her research interest is to understand how the material impact of expending infrastructures is shaping the management\, distribution\, and depletion of natural resources. \n\n\n\nDr. Cath and Dr. Jansen will be in conversation with Luke Robert Mason who hosts the FUTURES Podcast – a show that explores the topics of artificial intelligence\, human enhancement\, space travel and virtual reality. Mason is a British-born futures theorist who is passionate about engaging the public with emerging scientific theories and technological developments. \n\n\n\nEaten by the Internet is published by Meatspace Press\, an independent publisher translating academic research on tech to real life\, or “meatspace”. You can order your copy of Eaten by the Internet here\, or download a free copy of the pdf here. You can also pre-order the book through our event ticketing and Housman’s bookshop will bring it for you on the day. \n\n\n\nSPACE4\n\n\n\nSPACE4 is part of Outlandish\, a co-op that builds websites and digital tools for social good. We are interested in tech for good\, progressive economics\, and social change. We provide co-working\, meeting\, and events space\, primarily to social enterprises and digital activists. We also organise and host a range of events\, workshops\, and meetups around these topics. Don’t hesitate to get in touch or visit us. \n\n\n\nThe £5 charge on this event is a deposit that will be refunded if you attend. The reason behind this is to assure bums on the seats as we spend a lot of time prepping for these events and workshops. If you’re unable to pay contact natasha@outlandish.com for free registration.USE THE LINK BELOW TO RESERVE A TICKETTHIS EVENT IS NOT AT HOUSMANS\, BUT AT SPACE4 in FINSBURY PARK \n\n\n\nVenue access information: https://space4.tech/visit-us \n\n\n\nSign up to our newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dKiIsU \n\n\n\nVisit our website: https://space4.tech \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/eaten-by-the-internet-with-corinne-cath-and-fieke-jansen-at-space4-finsbury-park/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/eaten.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240315T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240315T213000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20240209T105650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240315T183128Z UID:53923-1710529200-1710538200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Infinite City by Niall Kishtainy DESCRIPTION:‘Glorious’ GUARIDAN \n\n\n\n‘Vigorous\, rigorous and eminently readable’ Thomas W. Hodgkinson \n\n\n\nLondon is a city of dreamers. A city of possibility and experiment. A city of fervent imaginings and courageous aspirations. For centuries\, it has been the capital of utopian thought. The Infinite City tells this history for the first time. \n\n\n\nHousmans are extremely excited to welcome Niall Kishtainy for a special talk in and around his acclaimed book The Infinite City. Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More\, the Diggers\, William Morris and Extinction Rebellion protestors. He introduces us to thinkers like Thomas Spence who threw coins stamped with the words ‘YOU FOOLS’ into the alleys of Holborn. To Ada Salter who was the first woman borough councillor in London and ignited the Bermondsey Revolution. To ninety-two-year-old Dolly Watson who became the queen of Claremont Road in Leytonstone during the Reclaim the Streets protests in the 1990s. These are inspiring tales of people who drew might from the city around them and fought for their ideologies in an increasingly transforming world. \n\n\n\nBeginning in the sixteenth century and stretching from the contemporary transformation of the East End docklands to the COVID lockdowns\, The Infinite City shows how London’s spirit has been one of visionary imagination amid relentless change and innovation. \n\n\n\nNiall will be delivering an exclusive presentation (complete with slides) followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nDoors: 7:00\, Event start: 7:30 \n\n\n\n As always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/book-talk-the-infinite-city-by-niall-kishtainy/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/91jHOvIdpFL._SL1500_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240328T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240328T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20240202T174719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240202T174842Z UID:54376-1711650600-1711657800@housmans.com SUMMARY:'How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It' with Joshua Dávila [at Space4\, Finsbury Park] DESCRIPTION:‘How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It’ with Joshua Dávila [at Space4\, Finsbury Park] \n\n\n\nHousmans has proudly teamed up with Space4 and the FUTURES Podcast to present a series of live events regarding the impacts of capitalism on digital technology \n\n\n\nIn this second session we’ll be hosting Joshua Dávila to talk about his work and book Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It. \n\n\n\nDávila has been working in the European blockchain space for the past five years and has been anonymously moonlighting as the one behind The Blockchain Socialist blog and podcast. While crypto is often thought of as being synonymous with unbridled capitalism\, Dávila’s book Blockchain Radicals shows instead how the technology can and has been used for more radical purposes\, beyond individual profit and towards collective autonomy. \n\n\n\nDávila will be in conversation with Luke Robert Mason who hosts the FUTURES Podcast – a show that explores the topics of artificial intelligence\, human enhancement\, space travel and virtual reality. Mason is a British-born futures theorist who is passionate about engaging the public with emerging scientific theories and technological developments. \n\n\n\nBlockchain Radicals is published by Repeater Books\, a radical publisher based in London. You can pre-order the book through our event ticketing and Housman’s bookshop will bring it for you on the day. \n\n\n\nSPACE4\n\n\n\nSPACE4 is part of Outlandish\, a co-op that builds websites and digital tools for social good. We are interested in tech for good\, progressive economics\, and social change. We provide co-working\, meeting\, and events space\, primarily to social enterprises and digital activists. We also organise and host a range of events\, workshops\, and meetups around these topics. Don’t hesitate to get in touch or visit us. \n\n\n\nThe £5 charge on this event is a deposit that will be refunded if you attend. The reason behind this is to assure bums on the seats as we spend a lot of time prepping for these events and workshops. If you’re unable to pay contact natasha@outlandish.com for free registration. \n\n\n\nUSE THE LINK BELOW TO RESERVE A TICKET \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS NOT AT HOUSMANS\, BUT AT SPACE4 in FINSBURY PARK \n\n\n\nVenue access information: https://space4.tech/visit-us \n\n\n\nSign up to our newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dKiIsU \n\n\n\nVisit our website: https://space4.tech \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/how-capitalism-ruined-crypto-and-how-to-fix-it-with-joshua-davila/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/blockchain-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240328T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240328T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20240307T163730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240323T153740Z UID:55217-1711652400-1711657800@housmans.com SUMMARY:A Thousand Little Machines: Franco 'Bifo' Berardi\, A/Traverso and the Movement of '77 DESCRIPTION:In 1977 youth revolts spectacular in their intensity\, creativity and violence would send shockwaves throughout Italian society. These rebellions\, belonging to the autonomia movement\, were characterised by a mass refusal of wage-labour and powered by novel experiments in communication\, in particular the printed word. Hundreds of revolutionary newspapers known as ‘movement sheets’\, would circulate Italy during those years\, acting as little machines to produce political subjectivity. \n\n\n\nJoin us for the book launch for A Thousand Little Machines: A/Traverso and the Movement of ’77\, with editors and contributors\, Jamila Squire\, Seth Wheeler and Nick Thoburn.The book contains the recollections of the autonomist militant\, philosopher and media theorist Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi on autonomia and the tumultuous events of ’77\, told through the pages of A/traverso\, the Bolognese movement sheet he produced with others between 1975 – 1981. \n\n\n\nIn texts translated into English for the first time\, presented alongside extensive archival material and stunning photographs\, this book explores the subversion\, exuberance and joy of the movement of ’77\, while raising important questions about the role of creative collectivity and experimental communication for militants today. \n\n\n\nThere will be drinks after the event! \n\n\n\nMore about the book here: https://agitpress.net/books/p/a-thousand-little-machines \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/a-thousand-little-machines-franco-bifo-berardi-a-traverso-and-the-movement-of-77/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-06-at-10.52.29.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240405T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240405T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20240322T134705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240322T134708Z UID:55723-1712343600-1712354400@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: A Primer on Utopian Philosophy DESCRIPTION:How Ernst Bloch’s work can provide new hope for utopian thinking today. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHousmans are delighted to welcome John Greenaway back to the shop after he so brilliantly helped us launch Bill Cashmore’s fantastic ‘We Hear Only Ourselves’ last year. Billie will also be returning\, this time to serve as John’s interlocuter\, as he launches A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: How Ernst Bloch’s work can provide new hope for utopian thinking today. \n\n\n\nThe utopian project lies in ruins\, but perhaps in our present moment\, there are elements from the history of thought that can provide fresh resources for utopianism. In this groundbreaking introduction\, Jon Greenaway explores the work of German philosopher Ernst Bloch\, whose complex and challenging philosophy is a primer for a philosophical renewal of the struggle for a better world. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/book-launch-a-primer-on-utopian-philosophy/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/jhp6582e0074214c.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20240202T175752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240205T122543Z UID:54387-1714069800-1714077000@housmans.com SUMMARY:‘How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World\, And How We Win it Back’ with Jeremy Gilbert\, Alex Williams and Alison Winch DESCRIPTION:‘How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World\, And How We Win it Back’ with Jeremy Gilbert\, Alex Williams and Alison Winch \n\n\n\nHousmans has proudly teamed up with Space4 and the FUTURES Podcast to present a series of live events regarding the impacts of capitalism on digital technology. \n\n\n\nIn this last session we’ll be hosting a panel discussion between Jeremy Gilbert\, Alex Williams\, and Alison Winch to talk about digital power in the 21st century – the theme of Gilbert and Williams’ newest book Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back). \n\n\n\nHegemony Now explores how Big Tech and Wall Street have shaped the direction of politics and government as well as the neoliberal economy to benefit their own interests. However\, since the 2008 financial crisis this dominance is under threat and digital platforms offer new opportunities for counter hegemonic strategies to win back power. Hegemony Now outlines a dynamic socialist strategy for the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nJeremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural & Political Theory at the University of East London. \n\n\n\nAlex Williams is a political theorist and lecturer in digital media and society currently based at the University of East Anglia. \n\n\n\nAlison Winch is Lecturer in Promotional Media at Goldsmiths\, and of particular relevance to this topic is co-author of ‘The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism: Celebrity Tech Founders and Networks of Power’ (Routledge 2021). \n\n\n\nThey will be in conversation with Luke Robert Mason who hosts the FUTURES Podcast – a show that explores the topics of artificial intelligence\, human enhancement\, space travel and virtual reality. Mason is a British-born futures theorist who is passionate about engaging the public with emerging scientific theories and technological developments. \n\n\n\nHegemony is published by Verso Books\, the largest independent\, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world\, publishing one hundred books a year. You can pre-order the book through our event ticketing and Housman’s bookshop will bring it for you on the day. \n\n\n\nSPACE4\n\n\n\nSPACE4 is part of Outlandish\, a co-op that builds websites and digital tools for social good. We are interested in tech for good\, progressive economics\, and social change. We provide co-working\, meeting\, and events space\, primarily to social enterprises and digital activists. We also organise and host a range of events\, workshops\, and meetups around these topics. Don’t hesitate to get in touch or visit us. \n\n\n\nThe £5 charge on this event is a deposit that will be refunded if you attend. The reason behind this is to assure bums on the seats as we spend a lot of time prepping for these events and workshops. If you’re unable to pay contact natasha@outlandish.com for free registration. \n\n\n\nUSE THE LINK BELOW TO RESERVE A TICKET \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS NOT AT HOUSMANS\, BUT AT SPACE4 in FINSBURY PARK \n\n\n\nVenue access information: https://space4.tech/visit-us \n\n\n\nSign up to our newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dKiIsU \n\n\n\nVisit our website: https://space4.tech \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRESERVE TICKETS VIA EVENTBRITE\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\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/how-big-tech-and-wall-street-won-the-world-and-how-we-win-it-back-with-jeremy-gilbert-alex-williams-and-alison-winch/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/hegemony-now-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240428T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240428T213000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20240402T150042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240405T140507Z UID:56016-1714330800-1714339800@housmans.com SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Love the World Or Get Killed Trying ALVINA CHAMBERLAND in conversation with JULIET JACQUES DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to be welcoming Alvina Chamberland to celebrate the publication of her hotly anticipated autofictional work Love the World Or Get Killed Trying. \n\n\n\nNamed a Most Anticipated Book in Nylon\, Them\, Ms. Magazine\, Autostraddle\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Bay Area Reporter\, LGBTQ-reads\, and Write or Die-Magazine. \n\n\n\n“Perhaps some hearts are so big they must constantly burst and break.” \n\n\n\nThrough playful poetic prose\, sharp social commentary and self-deprecating gallows humor Love the World or Get Killed Trying dives into the mind of Alvina\, a trans woman on the eve of turning 30. The reader is invited to follow her journey through the breathtaking wilderness of Iceland and busy city boulevards of Berlin and Paris as she probes questions of eternity\, sexuality\, longing\, death\, love\, and how hard it is to remain soft when you’re a ceaseless target of straight men’s secret lust and open disgust. This novel tackles universal issues through a trans woman’s specific lens – insisting on these experiences speaking to far more than just issues of sexuality and gender. \n\n\n\nReaching its climax through an urgent wildfire scream-of-consciousness\, cry-of-love-manifesto\, Love the World or Get Killed Trying is a raw and vulnerable work of magical brutalist autofiction; abstract in the sense of poetically digging beneath the surface\, and experimental in the sense of trying to find out new things and express them in new ways\, while concretely asserting that if trans women one day collectively outed every man who seeks them out\, a full-blown revolution would ensue by nightfall. \n\n\n\nAlvina will read from the book and be in conversation with the brilliant Juliet Jacques\, followed by an audience Q&A. \n\n\n\nOUR SPEAKERS: \n\n\n\nAlvina Chamberland is a Swedish-US American author of predominantly literary autofiction novels. In 2015 Bokförlaget ETC published her co-authored book Allt som är Mitt: Våldtäkt\, Stigmatisering och Upprättelse (English translation: All that is mine: Rape\, Stigmatization and Reparation). The book received a grant from the Swedish Arts Council. In September 2018 her novel Utelåst – Uppväxt- nostalgi för freaks (Locked Out – A nostalgic account of growing up for freaks) a parody of the coming of age-genre\, was published by Dockhaveri Förlag. She resides between Athens and Berlin and has no real hobbies\, only intensity and serenity. Love the World or Get Killed Trying is her English language debut. \n\n\n\nJuliet Jacques (b. Redhill\, Surrey in 1981) is a writer\, filmmaker\, broadcaster and academic based in London. She has published six books\, including Trans: A Memoir (2015)\, two short story collections including Variations (2021)\, Front Lines: Trans Journalism 2007-2021 (2022)\, and a novella\, Monaco (2023). Her fiction\, journalism and essays have appeared in the Guardian (including her ‘Transgender Journey’ column\, longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2011)\, New York Times\, Frieze\, London Review of Books and many other publications; her short films have screened in galleries and festivals across the world. She teaches at the Royal College of Art and elsewhere\, hosted the arts discussion programme Suite (212) on Resonance 104.4fm\, and is a co-host of Novara FM. She has played football for Clapton Community FC\, Horley Town and Surrey. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:15 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/book-launch-love-the-world-or-get-killed-trying-alvina-chamberland-in-conversation-with-juliet-jacques/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/love-the-world-exterior-new-2-scaled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240503T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240503T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T001528 CREATED:20240319T123100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T171029Z UID:55605-1714762800-1714773600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: Half-Earth Socialism DESCRIPTION:October 15\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHousmans are delighted to welcome Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass to the shop to celebrate the paperback launch of their seminal book Half-Earth Socialism. \n\n\n\nWithout revolutionary change\, humanity confronts a dystopian future of global heating\, epidemics\, and mass extinction. Yet\, the mainstream ‘solutions’ on offer are either too modest or too risky\, such as toothless cap-and-trade programmes\, dangerous geoengineering schemes\, seaweed in cattle feed\, luxury electric cars\, and wildlife conservation bankrolled by billionaires. In their book Half-Earth Socialism\, newly released in paperback\, historian Troy Vettese and scientist Drew Pendergrass criticize such tepid solutions and offers instead a countervailing vision for the future.  \n\n\n\nHalf-Earth Socialism goes beyond critique to confront a series of difficult questions. What does a just and ecologically-stable society actually look like? How can we go past the colonial history of conservation and replace it with something democratic and grounded in indigenous sovereignty? If capitalism leads inevitably to environmental crises\, how can we organize production and distribution without markets? If we engage in economic planning\, what are the planetary boundaries that constrain our interchange with nature? Can we ensure planning remains democratic? In Half-Earth Socialism\, Vettese and Pendergrass demonstrate that thinking through such questions allows us to imagine a new kind of society that is not only desirable\, but also feasible and necessary.  \n\n\n\nIn this event\, Vettese and Pendergrass will will be joined in conversation by food transparency advocate Robbie Lockie\, co-founder of Plant Based News. Half-Earth Socialism argues that widespread veganism makes it far easier to save land for biodiversity\, renewable energy\, fossil-free agriculture\, and carbon dioxide removal. In addition to the other points of the book\, their conversation will touch on disinformation in animal agriculture\, the role of veganism within broader environmental and left-wing movements\, and the relationship between activism and media. \n\n\n\nAbout our speakers: \n\n\n\nDrew Pendergrass is a writer\, activist\, and climate scientist whose work imagines how humanity can democratically govern itself under a worsening environmental crisis. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Science and Engineering at Harvard University\, where he also earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Mathematics. His research uses satellite\, aircraft\, and surface observations of the environment to correct supercomputer models of the atmosphere. Drew is currently working on a system that uses satellites to estimate real-time global emissions of methane\, an important greenhouse gas. He is the lead developer of CHEEREIO\, a free\, open-source software used by scientists to characterize the sources of a wide variety of pollutants. Drew is co-author of the book Half-Earth Socialism (Verso\, 2022)\, along with historian Troy Vettese\, with whom he has also co-written articles for Architectural Design and International Labor and Working-Class History. In addition to his scientific publications\, Drew has authored various pieces of popular environmental writing for outlets including Harper’s\, The Guardian\, and Jacobin. \n\n\n\nTroy Vettese is a Ciriacy-Wantrup post-doctoral fellow at the University of California\, Berkeley. He obtained his Ph.D. from New York University and Masters’ degrees from NYU\, St. Andrews\, and Oxford\, and has held research fellowships at the University of Copenhagen\, the European University Institute\, and Harvard University. Troy has taught a variety of courses on environmental studies in connection with Marxism\, neoliberalism\, and critical theory at the University of Milan\, Lund University\, and the University of Copenhagen. Together with Drew Pendergrass\, Troy is the author of the manifesto\, Half-Earth Socialism (Verso\, 2022)\, which has been discussed in Jewish Currents\, New Statesman\, Le Monde\, and the Ecologist\, as well as being translated into Swedish\, Italian\, Thai\, Korean\, and Spanish. He is currently writing a monograph on neoliberal environmental thought and editing a volume on Marxist animal studies. Troy’s popular writing has appeared in n+1\, the Guardian\, Jacobin\, Boston Review\, and Bookforum. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRobbie Lockie\, a digital media innovator and food transparency advocate\, leads The Freedom Food Alliance\, promoting informed consumer choices and exposing industry practices. Their recent report unveils disinformation tactics in animal agriculture. As co-founder of Plant Based News\, Robbie raises awareness on veganism\, reaching millions monthly. Inspired by personal health challenges\, Robbie champions ethical\, sustainable living for a better world. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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... 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