The Idea of the Avant Garde

The Idea of the Avant GardeThis book is premised on the view that the idea of the avant garde has an increased importance in these times of global political crisis. Much cultural production today is shaped by a biopolitics that construes all creative and knowledge production in terms of capital accumulation. A different kind of culture is possible. This collection of writings, essays, interviews and artworks by many of todays most radical cultural practitioners and astute

assessing learning

killed over 400 of its unarmed

Deporting Black Britons traces the life stories of four men who have been exiled through deportation

Sydney has been represented onscreen since the earliest days of cinema

and identity in contemporary European filmmaking

a sleeping king and his knights ready to save England in the last battle of the world

the war suffering and rationing in an exceptionally harsh period of French history it revises the current debates on citizenship

This book is a unique analysis of truth recovery in post-conflict Northern Ireland

as well as a glamorous fashion muse

this book provides a series of rich reflections on the interaction between radical ideas and political action in Ireland

yet seldom reflect on our own

the book proposes a dialectical reversal or about-face