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Book Launch: Liquid Reflections with Liliane Lijn
FeaturedWe are profoundly honored to be hosting the paperback launch for a memoir by one the world's greatest living artists, the sculptor Liliane Lijn, who will be joined in conversation by leading art writer Jennifer Higgie. Photo credit: Clay Perry Liliane Lijn is an artist who needs little introduction. Her stirring, often ostentatious and always […]
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Housmans Poetry Series: Jay Gao
FeaturedFor our next poetry evening we welcome to London the marvellously talented Jay Gao! He will be launching his mysterious, stirring new collection, 'The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in your ear, Thriving Slumber', published by Carcanet. Joining him we welcome a whole host of incredible poets: Dom Hale, Alycia Pirmohamed, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, […]
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NEW DATE: ‘The Rulers:Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud’ by Cecilia Rikap
FeaturedJoin us for the launch of this brilliant analysis of capital accumulation in the AI era that charts a roadmap for battling against the predatory concentration of knowledge, data and narratives in the hands of Big Tech, by award winning economist Cecilis Rikap, in conversation with Aisha Down, Tech Correspondant at The Guardian. Capitalism’s rulers […]
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WILD FOLKLORE AND UNRULY WOMEN
FeaturedElizabeth Sulis Kim and Brigid Lowe in conversation The bear deities, Artio and Artaius, who’ll rise from sleep; the salmon of wisdom who gifts understanding of the universe’s past, present and future; the Lion Man carved 40,000 years ago. Three determined women plot against an ambitious sorcerer, they are queen Goewin, the reclusive sorceress Arianrhod, […]
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CHARITY SHOP WORLD! with Tansy E. Hoskins
FeaturedWE ARE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME TANSY E. HOSKINS TO HOUMANS TO TALK ABOUT HER GROUNDBREAKING, MOVING NEW STUDY OF CHARITY SHOPS AND THE ROLES THEY PLAY IN MODERN CONSUMERIST CULTURE. ‘Charity shops are ubiquitous and invisible. They anchor the high street, employ thousands, process millions of items. Yet far more is written about AI than […]
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PANEL TALK: PUBLISHING AS COLLECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE with Minor Compositions
FeaturedWhat if a book wasn’t an endpoint but an infrastructure? Please join us for the launch of Publishing as Collective Infrastructure. This title is less a 'book' than it is a radical rethinking of the book-form itself; formulated as a collectively authored, polyphonic work; an intervention into the realms of academic and open-access publishing. The […]
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