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Couze Venn remembers Stuart Hall
Couze Venn remembers Stuart Hall on the TCS open site.
Les Back on Christmas Lights
Les Back has written this great piece on Christmas Lights and social class. The piece is called A Fairytale from New Addington.
Goldsmiths’ Sociology and Warwick’s Politics departments discuss books
As part of their 50 year celebrations Goldsmiths Sociology department have a new Open Books feature on their website. It features staff and students reflecting on their current reading. It features three entries so far, maybe there will be more … Continue reading
Access and Opportunity in the Social Sciences
The PhD students in my department are putting together a big postgraduate event looking at Access and Opportunity. At the moment they have John Urry booked in as a key note with more to follow. There is more information and … Continue reading
Algorithmic power and cultural types
I found this link through Deborah Lupton on Twitter. The article provocatively suggests that your haircut might be used to predict what clothes you might wish to buy. It’s a piece about how algorithms are being used to make predictions … Continue reading
Most viewed posts in 2013
In case it’s of any interest, these were the most viewed posts on this blog in 2013: Can academics manage without Twitter? (I also posted a short follow up to this here) Punk Sociology…cover, pre-orders, publisher’s site and an endorsement … Continue reading
An event to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Goldsmiths’ Department of Media and Communications
Call for papers for a special issue of Cultural Studies on ‘Everyday Debt and Credit’
CULTURAL STUDIES Special Issue: Everyday Debt and Credit Co-edited by Gregory J. Seigworth (Millersville University) and Joe Deville (Goldsmiths, University of London) Call for Papers How do ordinary matters of credit and debt circulate through the space-times of the everyday … Continue reading
Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian…a two day conference
Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian a two day conference. Here is the conference website and here are the details: The ordinary and the everyday are intuitively self-evident, yet notoriously elusive. Efforts to define “ordinary language” or “everyday practice” have preoccupied thinkers across many disciplines: … Continue reading
Thinking culture 