THREE TALKS BY LOREN GOLDNER
London, Jan 19th, 21st and 22nd, 2008

New York-based Marxist Loren Goldner is giving a series of talks in London this month, hosted by Mute magazine [http://metamute.org]

Attached here are two texts by Mute Vol. 2 Issue 4 contributor Giorgio Agostoni :

A Text for an Exhibition that regards Sound as a Weapon

Silence and Material

Polly II : Plan for a Revolution in Docklands

Polly II is Anja Kirschner's second narrative film, a powerful counter-imaginary opposed to the fantasy visions of the regenerated city.

The Survival Scrapbooks are a series of six books published in the early-1970s covering different aspects of autonomous living from a practical perspective.  Several authors contributed to the series, often with additional input from others.  The titles in the series, and their authors, were:

volume 1: Shelter, 1972 - Stefan Szczelkun
contents: different forms of wild, mobile, or simple-to-build accommodation including caves, hand-made tents, wooden huts, and vans.

Andrew Goffey reviews Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire by Luciana Parisi

`In The Companion Species Manifesto, Donna Haraway has substituted dogs for cyborgs, but who or what is wagging the tail of the new post-humanism? Review by Tim Savage

Ben Watson scratches deep into David Toop’s candy-coated history of 20th century music, Haunted Weather: Music , Silence and Memory

Brian Kim Stefans on a recent anthology of writing on digital poetry

p0es1s: The Aesthetics of Digital Poetry, eds. Friedrich W. Block, Christiane Heibach, Karin Wenz, Hatje Cantz, 2004

Stewart Home sniffs out some links between art, farts and modernist materialism in three novels by French songwriters and litterateurs Boris Vian and Serge Gainsbourg

Tom McCarthy on the recent Converging Stories conference at the ICA

Tom McCarthy samples the mainline stations on Literature's Techno Express

Harry Potter leads us through a worm hole into the wiki-based world of collaborative knowledge production and resource sharing

After emigrating from Prague in 1940, Vilem Flusser lived in Brazil for most of his life. The first of his work to be translated into English was that written between 1980-90. Perhaps as a result of his distance from Europe, Flusser’s theory of communication is largely untainted by the structuralist approaches of continental philosophy.

Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z, Suchin discovers a writer who understood the pleasure of text