researching contemporary culture: public practices ‘ post-crash theory and practice ’

Researching Contemporary Culture: Public Practices

‘Post-Crash Theory and Practice’

Professor Gary Hall (Coventry)Dr Clare Birchall (King’s College

London)

‘I think culture really lags behind politics. I think particularly music

it’s really glaring—there just doesn’t seem to be any music which has

substantially grasped the new mood after 2010 really... It seems to me to be a major disjunction between the

political situation and cultural forms. The cultural forms that

dominate still seem to be so pre-2008 actually.’

- Mark Fisher, ‘Towards a New Hegemony’, New Left Project (2012)

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Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault topped a 2009 Times Higher Education list of the most cited book authors in the humanities -

Pierre Bourdieu was second with Jacques Derrida third

An examination of the licenses used on two of the largest open access book publishing platforms reveals:

- on the OAPEN platform 2 of the 966 books are licensed CC-BY, and 153 CC-BY-NC

- on the DOAB 5 of the 778 books are licensed CC-BY, 215 CC-BY-NC

(Janneke Adema and Gary Hall, ‘The PoliticalNature of the Book: On Artists' Books and Radical Open Access’, New Formations, 78, Summer, 2013)

‘Technology and Cultural Form: A Liquid Reader’

Goldsmiths College, University of London

‘Technology and Cultural Form: A Liquid Reader’

Goldsmiths College, University of London

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