Tales of a Video Blogger
Being written for presentation at ‘Marx at the Movies’, these notes address the topic from an angle which is rarely treated in film and video scholarship, that of the peculiar labour process and mode of production involved.
About Michael
This author has not written his bio yet.
But we are proud to say that Michael contributed 285 entries already.
Entries by Michael
Marx at the Movies in Preston and Third Cinema in Oxford
/2 Comments/in Academic life, Cultural Politics, Film matters/by MichaelEvents since the near-death experience of finance capital in 2008 have succoured renewed attention not to Marxism as a political creed but to Marx as the urtext of the proper analysis of the capitalist system. On the one hand, old established Marxist scholars like Fredric Jameson, Terry Eagleton and David Harvey have all published new […]
The Morning After
/0 Comments/in Video Blog/by MichaelTwo activists from Occupy LSX, Martin Eiermann and Jamie Kelsey-Fry, talk about the eviction the morning after. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/37617578[/vimeo]
The academic writer’s strike
/0 Comments/in Academic life, Capitalism, Digest/by MichaelThe Thesis Whisperer 22/02/2012 Academic publishing is presented as a universal good, without regard to how the publishing system operates. While publications are an essential addition to the CV in today’s competitive job market, the ethics of publishing need to be considered too. Some big publishers are making boatloads of money – in the order of millions of […]
Greek hospital under workers’ control
/0 Comments/in Digest/by MichaelIs this perhaps the most significant piece of news coming out of Greece in the last few days? greekleftreview.wordpress.com Greek hospital now under workers’ control Posted: February 6, 2012 Submitted for publication by working class self organisation at libcom.org on Feb 5 2012 19:20 Health workers in Kilkis, Greece, have occupied their local hospital and have issued a statement saying it […]
One State in Palestine
/0 Comments/in Digest, unZionist/by MichaelOne single, secular, democratic state in Palestine: A Republic of all its citizens! www.1not2.org/One_State_in_Palestine
Revisiting the theory/practice debate
/3 Comments/in Academic life, Film matters, Media/by MichaelInteresting discussion going on recently over on Film-Philosophy about that old bugbear, the relation of theory to practice in our teaching and study of film. This debate has a history which, in the UK at least, goes back to the 1970s, when the art colleges taught experimental film making, and the then polytechnics and a […]
Screenings of ‘Three Short Films About Chile’
/in archive/by Michael‘Three Short Films About Chile‘ by Michael Chanan BRISTOL Friday, 24 February St. Matthias Campus, UWE, Room A123, 5pm. OXFORD Saturday 10 March, Shulman Auditorium, Queen’s College, High Street, 3.30pm as part of ‘Latin American “Third” Cinema and Its Legacies’
Our Man in Havana
/0 Comments/in Cuba, Digest/by MichaelOur Man in Havana « LRB blog private | 10 February 2012 | www.lrb.co.uk Alan Gross, a 62-year-old US citizen, has been imprisoned in Cuba since December 2009. He fell foul of the authorities while working for USAID, liaising with Cuba’s small Jewish community. The Washington Post earlier this month demanded his release, saying that ‘Cuba’s accusations stem from Mr Gross’s humanitarian […]
The Kodak Shift
/0 Comments/in Capitalism, Cultural Politics, Media/by MichaelIt’s one of those symbolic moments: a couple of weeks ago, Kodak filed for bankruptcy because it has failed to keep up with the shift from analogue to digital photography. This is the company that launched the consumer market for amateur photography in 1888, with its famous box camera. A dozen years later, by inventing a process […]