BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Housmans Bookshop X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://housmans.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Housmans Bookshop REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190709T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190709T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195335 CREATED:20190618T131704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190626T155211Z UID:678-1562698800-1562702400@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book launch of ‘Xystus’ My Life Story: A Child Of The Windrush Generation’ with Anne M Jones DESCRIPTION:What happened to the children of the WIndrush men and women who came here in the fifties\, the children who were left behind in the Caribbean then joined their parents later\, as teenagers? \nThis small book gives the first-hand account of one of these children – Xystus Sestus Marcell – in his own words\, who came to East London from St Lucia in 1972. He is  a man who cannot read or write but who knew he had an important story to tell\, so he dictated it and I wrote. \nThe story is a combination of awfulness\, adventure\, and immense courage\, and humour. It also raises many questions about issues around  racism \, early childhood\, and homelessness. \nA  ‘must-read’ ! \nA bargain at only five pounds (to offset costs of publishing) \nAnne M Jones \nFREE ENTRY \nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading... URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-of-xystus-my-life-story-a-child-of-the-windrush-generation-by-xystus-sestus-marcell/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/windrush.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190705T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190705T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195335 CREATED:20190611T144728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190611T144728Z UID:590-1562353200-1562358600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Robert Lundquist: After Mozart (Heroin On 5th Street) DESCRIPTION:Housmans and New River Press are extremely proud to present the London launch of Robert Lundquist’s After Mozart (Heroin On 5th Street) – a collection comprising of five decades of work\, previously only available in magazine archives\, anthologies\, and out-of-print chapbooks.  A lost genius\, come and see Lundquist give a very rare London performance. \nSpeakers \nRobert Lundquist was one of the rising stars of the Santa Cruz renaissance. By the early 1970s he was published in the Paris Review\, anthologized in Raymond Carver’s magazine Quarry West\, and listed in Rolling Stone Magazine’s ‘Best 100 American Poets’. This is Lundquist’s first major work. Discover a lost genius in these pages. \nThese poems were written in bursts over five decades. From 1969 to 1973\, from 1980 to 1985\, and from 2014 to 2018. Lundquist has an extraordinarily sensitive voice deeply engaged with the works of García Lorca\, César Vallejo\, Paul Celan\, James Wight\, Wallace Stevens\, and John Ashbery. He addresses themes of love\, loss\, alcoholism\, and emotional pain. He meditates on death\, romance\, and beauty with wild formal experiments and a visceral\, surreal vision that is all his own. \nCentral to his poetry is the changing spirit of Downtown L.A. The poet was raised and has lived his entire life there. His grandmother was a waitress in Union Station and his father an undercover policeman. Some darker chapters are inspired by a stint living next to skid row. The neighbourhoods of DTLA – the automobiles\, diners\, bars\, wildlife\, and characters they contain – are evoked here with a noir melancholy and hallucinatory brilliance. \nMORE POETS TBC \nReviews \nAs a poet\, Lundquist finds an organising myth in water. Water manifests itself as the giver of life\, the bringer of death and the keeper of time\, never taking on just one role and often embodying all three at once. It is a pretty formal move on his part\, considering the experimentation and autonomy of form that otherwise characterise his work. Also\, it is a strikingly consistent vision\, given the five decades behind these poems. \nNevertheless\, it is the many faces and shapes of water that inform his poems: sea water\, shower water and tides; water’s bodily derivatives\, tears and sweat and saliva and blood; its darker derivatives\, waters that drown you\, alcohol or heroin liquefying in a spoon; fermented or sugared water like Jack Daniel’s and Coca Cola. Lundquist is constantly seeking it\, he looks for it everywhere and he sees it in everything. \nThe ancient practice of looking for a source of water in unlikely places is known as water divination\, or water witching. The one who does it is called a dowser. And Lundquist is skilful dowser in these poems. He conducts his water witching among the stony buildings\, the cracked pavements\, the smoggy air of his neighbourhood\, with patience and poetic steadiness. \nMersiha Bruncevic\, 3AM Magazine \n  \nTickets available here\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/robert-lundquist-after-mozart-heroin-on-5th-street/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/robertlundquistcover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190703T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190703T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195335 CREATED:20190614T143910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190614T143910Z UID:602-1562180400-1562184000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Facing the Apocalypse – Arguments for Ecosocialism. Book launch with the author Alan Thornett DESCRIPTION:Alan Thornett presents his ecosocialist argument for responding to the climate crisis: he argues for a transitional approach – which separates him both from both those that think capitalism will find a solution and those who think revolutionary propaganda is enough – and makes the case that the situation requires the broadest possible movement. \nWe are facing a multifaceted threat to the planet. Crucial resources are running out. Pollution is choking the ecosystems. From a defence of the remarkable ecological content of classical Marxism – lost during the 20th century – to the rise of productivism\, the book is an appeal to the socialist left to take the ecological crisis far more seriously. \nThe author engages with major debates that are unresolved on the left. He promotes a transitional approach\, distinct from those that think capitalism will find a solution and those who think revolutionary propaganda is enough. Alan Thornett argues that defending the planet today requires the broadest possible movement. \nAlan Thornett began his career as a car worker in Cowley. He is a member of Socialist Resistance and a leader of the Fourth International. Thornett is the author of three volumes of autobiography: From Militancy to Marxism\, Inside Cowley\, and Militant Years\, and most recently of Facing the Apocalypse – Arguments for Ecosocialism. \nTickets available here\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/facing-the-apocalypse-arguments-for-ecosocialism-book-launch-with-the-author-alan-thornett/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Apocalypse-e1550860042461.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190627T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190627T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195335 CREATED:20190614T151834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190625T163809Z UID:615-1561662000-1561665600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Autonomy Now Presents: 'Emma Goldman and Intersectionality' with Donnacha DeLong DESCRIPTION:This Thursday June 27th is Emma Goldman’s 150th birthday! So on Thursday we will be celebrating her formidable life and legacy in Housmans Bookshop. Free. No booking required.\nDonnacha DeLong will be speaking about Emma Goldman and intersectionality. Other names to be confirmed. \nFree entry\, no booking required. 7pm start. \nDonnacha DeLong is an Irish journalist and communications consultant. He is also a Past President of the National Union of Journalists. In 2010/11\, Donnacha completed an MA in Political Communication and his dissertation\, An Anarchist Analysis of Power\, focused mainly on the writings of Emma Goldman and Rudolf Rocker.\nDonnacha will talk about Emma Goldman’s activist career\, in particular\, how many of the things that are now criticised as identity politics were a large part of what made her “The most dangerous woman in America”. Emma Goldman was one of the most important figures in bringing issues such as women’s rights and gay rights into revolutionary politics.\nhttps://autonomynow.noblogs.org \nMap: https://autonomynow.noblogs.org/housmans-bookshop/\nTw: @autonomynow_\nFB: https://is.gd/anowfb \nPlease note the previously advertised event ‘Journey through Utopia: A Critical Examination of Imagined Worlds in Western Literature’ has been postponed \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/happybirthdayemma/ CATEGORIES:In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/emmagoldman.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190626T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190626T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195335 CREATED:20190611T142700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190611T143158Z UID:573-1561575600-1561581000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Waiting for the Revolution: The British Far Left from 1956 DESCRIPTION:An attempt to understand and document the traditions and issues that have preoccupied leftist groups\, activists and struggles in the UK since 1956. \nWaiting for the revolution is a volume of essays examining the diverse currents of British left-wing politics from 1956 to the present day. The book is designed to complement the previous volume\, Against the grain: The far left in Britain from 1956\, bringing together young and established academics and writers to discuss the realignments and fissures that maintain leftist politics into the twenty-first century. \nThe two books endeavour to historicise the British left\, detailing but also seeking to understand the diverse currents that comprise ‘the far left’. Their objective is less to intervene in ongoing issues relevant to the left and politics more generally\, than to uncover and explore the traditions and issues that have preoccupied leftist groups\, activists and struggles. To this end\, the book will appeal to scholars and anyone interested in British politics. \nSpeakers  \nEvan Smith is a Visiting Adjunct Fellow in the School of History and International Relations at Flinders University\, South Australia \nMatthew Worley (Editor) \nProfessor John Kelly (Birkbeck University) \nTickets available here\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/waiting-for-the-revolution-the-british-far-left-from-1956/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/British-far-left.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190624T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190624T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195335 CREATED:20190611T141142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190611T143334Z UID:561-1561402800-1561408200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Rebel Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Radical History DESCRIPTION:A Pluto Press 50th Anniversary event. David Rosenberg brings to life the history of social movements in the capital\, telling the story of protest and struggle in London from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. From the suffragettes to the socialists\, from the Chartists to the trade unionists\, Rosenberg invites us to step into the footprints of a diverse cast of dedicated fighters for social justice. \nSpeaker \nDavid Rosenberg is an educator\, writer and tour guide\, and author of Rebel Footprints (Pluto\, 2015) and Battle for the East End (Five Leaves\, 2011). Since 2008\, he has led tours of key sites in London’s social and political history. \nTickets available here\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/rebel-footprints-a-guide-to-uncovering-londons-radical-history/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/rebel-footprints.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190616T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190616T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195335 CREATED:20190522T134558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190611T143111Z UID:518-1560700800-1560708000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Not Another Book Podcast Live in Conversation with Irenosen Okojie DESCRIPTION:Housmans are really pleased to host an episode of Not Another Book Podcast live from our vaults. Join Nigerian-British writer Irenosen Okojie and the co-hosts of Not Another Book Podcast for a bold and honest conversation on Okojie’s experiences as a novelist and short story writer\, the joys of storytelling\, surreal tales\, disrupting narratives and her forthcoming short story collection Nudibranch and novel Curandera.\n\nIrenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British writer. Her books have won and been shortlisted for multiple awards. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The Observer\, The Guardian\, the BBC and the Huffington Post amongst other publications. Her short stories have been published internationally. She was presented at the London Short Story Festival by Booker Prize winning author Ben Okri as a dynamic talent to watch and featured in the Evening Standard Magazine as one of London’s exciting new authors. She was recently inducted as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her forthcoming books Nudibranch and Curandera have been signed by Little Brown’s Dialogue Books. \nNot Another Book Podcast is brutally honest\, nuanced\, and witty. The show is the third podcast to launch from the ShoutOut Network’s ‘Next Generation of Voices’ line-up. Hosted by Books And Rhymes\, Book Shy Books and Post Colonial Child\, the trio want to help the publishing industry evolve and shape what future literature critics look and sound like. \nIndependent Bookshop Week (IBW) celebrates independent bookshops\, and their vital importance to communities across the country. Events are taking place at bookshops across the UK and Ireland (15-22 June 2019)\, and Housmans Bookshop is delighted to host a live podcast event with Not Another Book Podcast as part of the first-ever ‘IBW Live Podcast Tour’. Follow #indiebookshopweek and @booksaremybag for updates. \nPlease note that this event will be held in a non-accessible space for wheelchair users. \nTickets available here\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/not-another-book-podcast-live-in-conversation-with-irenosen-okojie/ CATEGORIES:In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/podcast.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190612T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190612T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195335 CREATED:20190522T131502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190611T143537Z UID:490-1560366000-1560369600@housmans.com SUMMARY:To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion on how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced in Europe today. Speakers Akwugo Emejulu and Dr Francesca Sobande will explore the differing social positions of black feminism in various countries and the ways in which Black feminists organize and mobilize to imagine a Black feminist Europe. This event is also part of Pluto Press’s 50th anniversary celebratory bookshop takeovers.  \nDeeply aware that they are constructed as “others” living in a racialized and hierarchical continent\, the contributors explore gender\, class\, sexuality\, and legal status to show that they are both invisible—presumed to be absent from and irrelevant to European societies—and hyper-visible\, assumed to be passive and sexualized\, angry and irrational. \nIn imagining a future outside the neocolonial frames and practices of contemporary Europe\, this book explores a variety of critical spaces including motherhood and the home\, friendships and intimate relationships\, activism and community\, and literature\, dance\, and film. \nSpeakers \nAkwugo Emejulu is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Community Development as Micropolitics: Comparing Theories\, Policies and Politics in America and Britain (Policy Press\, 2015)\, and the co-author with Leah Bassel of Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy Press\, 2017) and Fugitive Feminism (Silver Press\, 2018). \nDr Francesca Sobande is a Digital Media Studies Lecturer at Cardiff University. Her work focuses on how racism and sexism manifest in media and the marketplace. She has published work in the European Journal of Cultural Studies\, and Consumption Markets and Culture\, and is the author of The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan\, forthcoming 2020). \nTickets available here\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/to-exist-is-to-resist-black-feminism-in-europe/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/to-exist_black-feminism.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190605T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190605T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195335 CREATED:20190522T125737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190522T130503Z UID:477-1559761200-1559764800@housmans.com SUMMARY:The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line DESCRIPTION:Tickets available here\n  \nJoin Kojo Haram and Ash Sarkar for a very special “celebratory bookshop takeover” by Pluto Press to mark its 50th anniversary. Join Kojo and Ash to discuss this collection which reveals the racist impact of the War on Drugs across multiple continents and in numerous situations. An essential collection for all people fighting racism today.\n  \nThe War on Drugs has led to millions of people dead\, displaced and incarcerated. Disproportionately enforced on oppressed races\, international drug prohibition has reinforced the colour line across the globe. \nWhile laws prohibiting the production\, sale and use of particular drugs are presented as politically neutral and objective\, this collection reveals the racist impact of the war on drugs across multiple continents and in numerous situations. From racialised drugs policing at festivals in the UK to the necropolitical wars in Juarez\, Mexico and from the exchange of drug policing programs between the United States and Israel to the management of black bodies in Brazil\, this collection proves that the regulation of drugs and race is an international\, and intentional\, disaster. \nPushing forward the debate and activism led by groups such as Black Lives Matter and calling for radical changes in drug policy legislation and prison reform\, both nationally and internationally\, this collection cuts deep and rings true for all people fighting racism today. \n“A monumental study of the transnational circuits of racist policing etched out through the War on Drugs\, the immeasurable toll of human suffering they have induced\, and the resistances mounted against them.” Arun Kundnani\, author of The Muslims are Coming \nKojo Koram is lecturer at the School of Law\, University of Essex. \nAsh Sarkar is a British journalist and political activist. She is a senior editor at Novara Media and teaches at Anglia Ruskin University and the Sandberg Institute \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-war-on-drugs-and-the-global-colour-line/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/New-website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190531T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190531T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195335 CREATED:20190410T152537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190514T152038Z UID:255-1559332800-1559340000@housmans.com SUMMARY:Cooperation Jackson: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson\, Mississippi DESCRIPTION:Get tickets\n  \nOn a rare visit to London from Mississippi\, we are delighted to welcome a co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson\, Kali Akuno\, to discuss the inspiring work they have been undertaking to create sustainable community development\, economic democracy\, and community ownership\, within the confines of a historically structurally racist state.\n  \nMississippi\, the poorest state in the U.S. with the highest percentage of Black people\, and a history of vicious racial terror and concurrent Black resistance is the backdrop and context for this programme of community organising. \nUndeterred by the uncertainty\, anxiety and fear brought about by the steady deterioration of the neoliberal order over the last few years\, the response from Black activists of Jackson\, Mississippi has been to organise. Inspired by the rich history of struggle and resistance in Mississippi and committed to the vision of the Jackson-Kush Plan\, these activists are building institutions rooted in community power that combine politics and economic development into an alternative model for change\, while addressing real\, immediate needs of the people. \nCooperation Jackson’s basic theory of change is centered on the position that organizing and empowering the structurally under and unemployed sectors of the working class\, particularly from Black and Latino communities\, to build worker organized and owned cooperatives will be a catalyst for the democratisation of our economy and society overall. \nThe experiences and analyses in this compelling collection reflect the creative power that is unleashed when political struggle is grounded by a worldview freed from the inherent contradictions and limitations of reform liberalism. \nKali Akuno is also co-editor of ‘Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson\, Mississippi’ (2017) \nTHIS EVENT IS PART OF THE ANARCHIST FESTIVAL 2019 \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/cooperation-jackson/ CATEGORIES:In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/coop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190530T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190530T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195335 CREATED:20190513T153710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190514T152719Z UID:343-1559242800-1559250000@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Anarchist Imagination: Anarchism Encounters the Humanities and the Social Sciences DESCRIPTION:This event is free but please reserve a ticket here \n  \nAUTONOMY NOW PRESENTS\n  \nOur panel discuss the continuous role of the anarchist imagination as muse\, provocateur\, goading adversary\, and catalyst in the stimulation of research and creative activity in the humanities and social sciences\, including anthropology\, art\, feminism\, geography\, international relations\, political science\, postcolonialism\, and sociology.\n  \nAt the event two books will be launched: \nThe Anarchist Imagination\nAnarchism Encounters the Humanities and the Social Sciences\, 1st Edition\nEdited by Carl Levy\, Saul Newman\nhttps://www.routledge.com/The-Anarchist-Imagination-Anarchism-Encounters-the-Humanities-and-the/Levy-Newman/p/book/9781138782761 \nThe Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism\nEditors: Levy\, Carl\, Adams\, Matthew (Eds.)\nhttps://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319756196 \nCarl Levy is a Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations\, Goldsmiths\, University of London. He is currently writing two books\, ‘Anarchists and the City’ and a biography of Errico Malatesta: ‘Errico Malatesta: The Rooted Cosmopolitan\, the Life and Times of an Anarchist in Exile’. \nConstance Bantman is Senior Lecturer in French and Director of Teaching and Learning and author of ‘The French Anarchists in London\, 1880-1914: Exile and Transnationalism in the First Globalisation’ \nOle Birk Laursen is a literary critic and historian of Black and South Asian people in Britain and Europe\, researching and writing about race\, resistance\, and revolution\, focusing particularly on Indian anticolonialism\, nationalism\, and anarchism\, as well as the contemporary legacies of colonialism\, racism\, riots\, and human rights. \nCarne Ross is best known for once working as a British diplomat before leaving the civil service in disgust over the Iraq war\, and testifying against the government at the Butler Review. He has gone on to become an advocate for anarchist organising. \nTHIS EVENT IS PART OF THE ANARCHIST FESTIVAL 2019 \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/anarchist-imagination/ CATEGORIES:In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/anarch-fest.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:catherine@housmans.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190522T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190522T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195335 CREATED:20190513T152116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190514T152951Z UID:332-1558551600-1558558800@housmans.com SUMMARY:Coiled Verbal Spring/Devices of Lenin's Language DESCRIPTION:Tickets available here \n  \nThis event has been called by AMM All-Stars to launch\, draw attention to\, celebrate\, perform\, discuss\, worship\, use\, abuse\, fondle\, publicise – what you will – Coiled Verbal Spring/Devices of Lenin’s Language\, a book edited by Sezgin Boynik and published by Rab-Rab Press in Helsinki.\n  \nThe core of this shiny blue slab (21cm x 13cm x 2.3cm; 530g; 468pp) is the entire contents of the LEF (Left Front of the Arts) Journal (no. 5)\, published just after Lenin’s death in January 1924: texts by Mayakovsky\, Shklovsky and other Zaum Formalists which have never appeared in English before. They begin with a newspaper advert for marble busts of Lenin\, and say – directly\, clearly and unequivocally – WE OPPOSE THIS. Aware that the epigones are threatening the revolution\, the writing is fierce\, analytical\, funny and cutting. It proves that Great Literature and Revolution cannot be separated\, and whoever separates them is a Stalinist\, and a liar to boot. Far from being the “dilettantes” denounced by the Perpetrators of Leftwing Boredom\, AMM All-Stars and Psychedelic Bolsheviks are prescient in their refusal to separate art and revolution\, subject and object\, chicken and egg. We are funky time-travellers who refuse to be crucified on the cross of calendar time. We existed in 1924 and we exist in 2019. Sezgin’s publication proves this. If Debord had known these texts\, he wouldn’t have allowed the French Communist Party to dictate his reading of Lenin\, and Situationist politics would have avoided the swamps of anarchism and the crap pictures of Ralph Rumney. \nSezgin’s 135-page introduction\, “Out of Synch with the Thing” is a book in itself\, using the vogue terms “contemporaneity” and “conjuncture” to expound the class nature of Lenin’s politics. His bootnotes smash the pretensions of the bourgeois academy to understand Shklovsky and the Formalists (the one for Marjorie Perloff deserves a bottle of vodka). Craig Brandist\, arise! Also included is a pamphlet by Alexei Kruchenykh from 1928\, and there’s an afterword by Darko Suvin (like Sezgin\, although from a previous generation\, Suvin is a product of Tito’s Yugoslavia\, where Cold War cliches held less sway) pointing out that we live in a war economy and that to stop war you need class politics. For fuck’s sake\, can’t people stop gassing on about Brexit and talk about something important for a change? Thomas Campbell’s translations are fab. This book is a conceptual explosion. It even smells of paraffin. You want to lick the cover! \nAMM All-Stars are a musical unit\, a survival boatload from the goode shyppe Association of Musical Marxists\, a groupuscule founded by Ben Watson and Andy Wilson\, which between 2010 and 2015 ruffled the smooth surface of London life by daring to suggest that without pertinent art Revolutionary Politics are void\, and that without politics Avant is a disposable charade for hipsters\, snobs and posers. At the time of going to press\, the worthy constituents were Peter Baxter on punk drums; Dave Black on Northumbrian blues guitar; Paul Shearsmith (our Rico) on situational trumpet; Helen Tate on east-european violin; Graham Davis on krautrock synth & like absurdities; Out To Lunch on google-gargle; Jair-Rohm Parker Wells on bass; Esther Leslie on text – but there are other strange entities in orbit (Luke Davis\, Kit Mackintosh\, Rob Goldsmith …) who may be persuaded to come down. Tune in to hear AMM All-Stars on Resonance 104.4FM between 2pm and 3pm on Wednesdays\, by all means\, but don’t expect us to sound like that again. Oh yes\, if you need any Unkant books we’ll probably have a selection. \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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