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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher with Matt Colquhoun and James Butler [online event]
DESCRIPTION:Join Matt Colquhoun and James Butler as they examine the crucial legacy of Mark Fisher\, to celebrate the publication of Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher\, edited by Colquhoun.\n\nWhen we lost Mark Fisher in 2017\, we lost one of our most exciting and vital critics of contemporary politics and culture. Providing lucid and excoriating critiques on subjects ranging from Dido to Drake; The Fall to James Blake; Breaking Bad to Benefits Street\, he was moved by the emancipatory possibilities of popular culture. In publishing\, he worked to spread radical ideas and provide a generation of new writers with a platform. Blogging as ‘k-punk’\, he analysed everyday experiences of precarity\, depression\, and cultural malaise as profoundly political — and therefore changeable. Mark tirelessly sought alternatives to the world that we’ve been given\, away from the destructive individualism of the present and towards a practical communitarian future.\n\nFor the first time\, Postcapitalist Desire reveals Mark Fisher in his element — the classroom — outlining a project that Fisher’s death left so bittersweetly unfinished.\n\nBeginning with that most fundamental of questions — “Do we really want what we say we want?” — Fisher explores the relationship between desire and capitalism\, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still excavate from the past\, present\, and future. From the emergence and failure of the counterculture in the 1970s to the continued development of his left-accelerationist line of thinking\, this volume charts a tragically interrupted course for thinking about the raising of a new kind of consciousness\, and the cultural and political implications of doing so.\n\nFor Fisher\, this process of consciousness raising was always\, fundamentally\, psychedelic — just not in the way that we might think…\n\nSpeakers\n\nMatt Colquhoun is a writer and photographer from Hull\, East Yorkshire. He is the author of Egress: On Mourning\, Melancholy and Mark Fisher and blogs at xenogothic.com.\n\nJames Butler is the co-founded Novara Media and presents Novara FM on Resonance 104.4\, as well as being a contributor to the LRB and others.\n\nPlease read:\n\nIf you purchase a “book plus entry ticket”\, please email shop@housmans.com with a UK address. Postcapitalist Desire is published on 12 Jan 2021.\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 purchase the ticket. Please check your spam folder and if you have not received the invitation by 5pm\, email us and we will resend it. \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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SUMMARY:The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes\, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution with Dan Hicks [online event]
DESCRIPTION:Housmans welcomes Dan Hicks to discuss his book The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes\, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution at this free online event. Simply register below to attend. Alternatively\, if you wish to support Housmans\, please choose the solidarity ticket option.\n\nBrutish Museums is a call for western museums to wash their hands of colonial blood.\n\nWalk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified\, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name\, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen.\n\nFew artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes – a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City\, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897\, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria\, the British Museum and countless private collections.\n\nThe story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution\, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums\, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects\, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.\n\nTo buy a copy of Dan’s book\, click here\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nDan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum. His award-winning research focuses on the restitution of African cultural heritage from Euro-American collections\, focusing on the place of ideas of cultural whiteness in ongoing histories of colonial violence.\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-brutish-museums-the-benin-bronzes-colonial-violence-and-cultural-restitution-with-dan-hicks-online-event/
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SUMMARY:The Truth About Modern Slavery with Emily Kenway in conversation with Dawn Foster [online event]
DESCRIPTION:Emily Kenway and Dawn Foster join us online to discuss the issue of modern slavery in the UK. This event is free\, simply register below to attend. \nIn 2019\, over 10\,000 possible victims of slavery were found in the UK. From men working in Sports Direct warehouses for no pay\, to teenaged Vietnamese girls trafficked into small town nail bars\, we’re told that modern slavery is all around us\, operating in plain sight. \nBut is this really slavery\, and is it even a new phenomenon? Why has the British Conservative Party called it ‘one of the great human rights issues of our time’\, when they usually ignore the exploitation of those at the bottom of the economic pile? The Truth About Modern Slavery reveals how modern slavery has been created as a political tool by those in power. It shows how anti-slavery action acts as a moral cloak\, hiding the harms of the ‘hostile environment’ towards migrants\, legitimising big brands’ exploitation of the poorest workers and oppressing sex workers. \nBlaming the media’s complicity\, rich philanthropists’ opportunism and our collective failure to realise the lies we’re being told\, The Truth About Modern Slavery provides a vital challenge to conventional narratives on modern slavery. \nTo buy a copy of Emily’s book\, click here. \nSpeakers \nEmily Kenway is a writer and activist. As a former advisor to the UK’s first Anti-Slavery Commissioner she was at the heart of modern slavery action. She has written for a variety of publications including the Guardian and TLS. \nDawn Foster is a British journalist\, broadcaster and author. She is a staff writer for Jacobin magazine. She also contributes to the London Review of Books\, Times Literary Supplement\, The Independent\, The Nation\, Tribune\, and Dissent in the United States. \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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SUMMARY:**RESCHEDULED** In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life with Jamie Windust in conversation with Gina Martin [online event]
DESCRIPTION:‘There is no one way to be non-binary\, and that’s truthfully one of the best things about it. It’s an identity that is yours to shape.’\n\n**Please note the new date of this event is Friday 29th of January at 7pm**\n\nHousmans and JKP are delighted to present Jamie Windust\, award-winning non-binary writer\, public speaker and model\, an author of In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life. Jamie will be in conversation with activist Gina Martin. \n\n\nCombining light-hearted anecdotes with their own hard-won wisdom\, Jamie explores everything from fashion\, dating\, relationships and family\, through to mental health\, work and future key debates. From trying on clothes in secret to iconic looks\, first dates to polyamorous liaisons\, passports to pronouns\, Jamie shows you how to navigate the world and your evolving identity in every type of situation. In Their Shoes is a call to arms for non-binary self-acceptance\, self-appreciation and self-celebration.\n\n‘Beautiful\, heart-breaking and hilarious.’ – Scarlett Curtis\n\n‘A love-letter to our non-binary siblings.’ – Paula Akpan\n\nPlease read:\n\nIf you purchase a “book plus entry ticket”\, please email shop@housmans.com to let us know whether you would like Jamie’s book posted or if you would like to collect it from the shop. Please supply a UK address if the book is to be posted out. \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 purchase the ticket. Please check your spam folder and if you have not received the invitation by 5pm\, email us and we will resend it.\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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