Capital & Class articles from December 2004

Capital & Class archives from December 2004

A more critical view of the creative industries: production, consumption and resistance.(Introduction)
December 22, 2004... The UK government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) defines the creative industries as being comprised of: Advertising Architecture Art and Antiques Crafts Design Fashion Film Interactive Leisure Software Music Performing...

Culture, labour and subjectivity: for a political economy from below.
December 22, 2004... It is no secret that the field of political economy of communication and that of cultural studies sit uneasily with each other. Their precarious relationship has been confirmed, documented and analysed by both sides; the adversarial positions...

Counter-hegemony, anti-globalisation and culture in International Political Economy.
December 22, 2004... Introduction Recent events such as the 'Battle of Seattle', the May Day demonstrations in Europe and the succession of anti-capitalist carnivals, often symbolically held during international summits geared at consolidating global policies...

The new cultural economy, the artist and the social configuration of autonomy.
December 22, 2004... Introduction Many recent commentators have identified the general features of a new economy within capitalism (Leadbetter, 1998; Kelly, 1999; Rifkin, 2000). At the most general level, this new economy can be identified as being...

Cultural consumption and the myth of life-style.
December 22, 2004... Introduction Imagine if critical social theorists littered their conversations and writings with terms like 'advertorial', or 'infotainment', in an unselfconscious or unexamined manner. The use of such terms tends to make us wince, because...

Satirising the bourgeois worldview: Patrick Hamilton's Impromptu in Moribundia.
December 22, 2004... Patrick Hamilton emerged as a well-regarded author during the 1920s and 1930s and, in terms of subject, 'Hamilton wrote best about the social milieux of middle class southern England, in the voice of a bourgeois Marxist' (McKenna, 1994: 241)....

'A spacious horizon is an image of liberty'; artistic and literary representations of space and freedom in the English common field landscape in the face of Parliamentary Enclosure, 1810-1830.
December 22, 2004... Introduction: The philosophical and ideological context In The Guardian of May 6 2004, an article by Patrick Barkham reported, 'Madonna stands her ground in test case against ramblers'. The pop star Madonna had brought a legal test case...

The legacy of the Situationist International: the production of situations of creative resistance.
December 22, 2004... Introduction This article explores the contribution made by the theory of the Situationist International. The initial section provides a history of the organisation, followed by a discussion of its main concepts in the second section. The...

'The anger management is not working'.
December 22, 2004... At a time of post-9/11 millenarianism, of the continued engagement in Iraq, and when the spectacle is at war with itself, the relative lack of cultural politics in the UK is perhaps surprising. Onto that scene has crept a latter-day...

Narratives of transformation and resistance: a cultural studies approach towards a critical understanding of the New German Cinema.
December 22, 2004... In recent years, considerable attention has been paid to the social and economic significance of the arts and cultural production, or 'creative industries'. Research into the relationship between the latter and community changes has been...

Marxism and science fiction: a celebration of the work of Ursula K. Le Guin.
December 22, 2004... In 1973, the newly-established journal Science Fiction Studies published a symposium on 'Marxism and science fiction' in its very first issue. (1) Thirty years later, the newly-established journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical...

The 2003 European Social Forum: where next for the anti-capitalist movement?
December 22, 2004... It is Paris in late autumn 2003. It is the European Social Forum (ESF): the very epicentre of the new anti-capitalism. Here is where the future of European resistance to global neoliberalism is being forged. I take myself off to an...

The engineered and the vernacular in cultural quarter development.
December 22, 2004... Introduction This article will explore the different types of cultural quarter development in two UK cities, namely Leicester and Nottingham. Primarily, I want to explore the different underlying rationales for cultural quarter development...

Enjoy the ride: DIY culture in Nottingham.
December 22, 2004... By tapping into DIY culture, Enjoy The Ride in Nottingham offers an autonomous space for an audiovisual celebration of art, music, poetry, film and, generally, anything creative. The idea behind Enjoy the Ride came simply from my desire to...

NewcastleGateshead Quayside: cultural investment and identities of resistance.
December 22, 2004... The news that, in the aftermath of the bidding process for the UK's representative for the European Capital of Culture in 2008, the UR government is investing 15 million [pounds sterling] in the Urban Cultural programme, raises some key issues...

Loft living--Bombay calling: culture, work and everyday life on post-industrial Tyneside; a joint polemic.(Polemic)
December 22, 2004... The Observer of 7 December 2003 carried two stories that had resonance for Tynesiders. One--illustrated with a photo of three attractive but, for nightlife Newcastle, surprisingly fully-dressed young women, with only decolletage on...

Culture that works? Creative industries development in a working-class city.
December 22, 2004... Located in the English Midlands between Birmingham and Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent is a city of around 250,000 people. Nicknames such as Ceramicopolis, Ceramic City and, more popularly, The Potteries, leave little doubt as to what goes on in...

The smoking ban in Ireland: smoke-free or smokescreen?
December 22, 2004... Since the inception of the smoking ban in Ireland, there has been a fair amount of public controversy in terms of its potential effects on the Irish economy, the healthcare system, tourism, and pub culture. At the level of public discourse, the...

City of Quarters: Urban Villages in the Contemporary City.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... David Bell & Mark Jayne (eds.) City of Quarters: Urban Villages in the Contemporary City Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004, 287 pp. ISBN: 0-7546-3414-0 (pbk) 30 [pounds sterling] City of Quarters describes the continuing rise of contemporary urban...

The Political Economy of New Slavery.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Christien van den Anker (ed.) The Political Economy of New Slavery Palgrave Macmillan, New York and Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2004, 272 pp. ISBN 1-4039-1523-7 (pbk) 16.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN 1-4039-1522-9 (hbk) 50 [pounds sterling] There...