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Dear list members, Just a reminder that Jodi Dean will be talking at University of Salford, Media City, rm 2.36, at 4PM. All are welcome but please arrive early to be signed in to the building. The talk will be on her recently published book The Communist Horizon http://mmppgrhub.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/mmp-grad-prog-jodi-dean-communist.html MMP Grad Prog: Jodi Dean - The Communist Horizon (20/3) 20th of March, 4pm-5pm, MediaCityUK (University of Salford building: Room 2.36) (Non-Salford students: please meet 3.50 at reception and you'll be signed in). Jodi Dean: The Communist Horizon [http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6846961755_f41bea746c.jpg]<http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6846961755_f41bea746c.jpg>How is communism actual for us here and now? Jodi Dean considers how communism is the horizon of our contemporary politics in six ways: the past that remains present, the force of the ideal, the sovereignty of the people, the desire for the collective, the common and the commons, and the actuality of revolution. [https://ebooks-imgs.eb.sonynei.com/product/400/000/000/000/000/793/947/400000000000000793947_s4.jpg]<https://ebooks-imgs.eb.sonynei.com/product/400/000/000/000/000/793/947/400000000000000793947_s4.jpg> Jodi Dean is a Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY and Erasmus Professor of the Humanities in the Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University. She is the author or editor of eleven books, including Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies (Duke 2009), Blog Theory (Polity 2010), and most recentlyThe Communist Horizon (Verso 2012). Her work on communicative capitalism has been at the forefront of contemporary political and media theoretical debates with figures including Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou and Geert Lovink. Dr Michael Goddard Senior Lecturer in Media/Postgraduate Coordinator (MMP) School of Arts and Media MediaCityUK Salford, Manchester M50 2HE t: +44-1612956076 e: [log in to unmask] Co-editor with Benjamin Halligan and Paul Hegarty of Reverberations: The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise, Continuum. 2012, and the forthcoming sister volume co-edited with Benjamin Halligan and Nicola Spelman, Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music. Forthcoming in 2013. ---------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------