Alasdair King

Hito Steyerl at the MAK Vienna: ‘Humanity Had the Bullet Go in Through One Ear and Out Through the Other’ - featuring Hell Yeah We Fuck Die and Mechanical Kurds.

Sahej Rahal: MYTHMACHINE (2022) at the Kunstraum Vienna.

Femke Herregraven: The Murmur of the Dying (2023) - at the Kunstraum Vienna

Found this gem hidden away in the local used vinyl shop - great bit of Fela from 1977!

Paris, at Jeu de Paume, really good but ends soon, unfortunately.

Blown away to see the display of Calculating Empires by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler

Paris - Le Monde selon l’AI @jeudepaume - full of good things.

Frances McDormand in Zhao's "Nomadland" (2020)

🎬 Call for Papers 🎬
We’re organising a one-day symposium on the work of Chloé Zhao at the University of Portsmouth (7 Nov 2025). Topics include transnational cinema, Indie v. Marvel, eco and feminist approaches and more!

Full CfP here: tinyurl.com/3ajt4tsa
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#CfP #AcademicSky #FilmSky

Qmul cuts 200 roles 60 lost to voluntary severance in 2024 80 professional service staff took VS in 2025 50 academics took VS in 2025 Strategic exits Redundancies in restructures Remaining staff with increasing workload

QMUL cut 200 roles in the past two years: qmucu.org/2025/06/26/s... #SaveHE #UKHE

Call for Papers We are pleased to invite contributions to Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with…

We are pleased to invite contributions to Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with the aim of promoting ecosocial justice.

I’m organizing an international workshop next week at Roskilde University: Speculating the Future: Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities. We’ll explore how speculative fiction helps us understand speculative finance & future-making. The keynote will be delivered by Sherryl Vint from UC Riverside.

Not sure what my iphone made of the huge #averysinger pieces at the Serralves Foundation today - so many good exhibitions in a stunning setting.

The event page is now available for the AARG event on 20 May on the Multiple Crises of Higher Education. Register here - www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...

Record Store Day - all my @acertainratio.bsky.social vinyl went missing years ago - nice to pick up To Each on RSD. The Fox and Winter Hill 🔥.

Today is the day: Financial nihilism.

Launch of Finance Aesthetics - 8th April 5-7pm, @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w/ @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social @erosamon.bsky.social @maxhaiven.bsky.social @adriennebuller.bsky.social & Emma Sofie Brogaard - register here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae... @goldsmithspress.bsky.social

Raymond Williams Society Postgrad Essay Prize 2025 We are delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay competition for its 11th year. The deadline for entries is Friday 28th February 2025. The prize for the wi…

We're delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay prize. The prize for the winning entry is £250 and a year's subscription to the Society. See full T&Cs and details of how to enter on our website: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/01/14/r....

January 11, 2025 - the fires Los Angeles – Jan 11, 2025My city is on fire.​Last November, I went with a group of friends to see an art project at the Los Angeles River called What Water Wants. We all wore headphones and listened ...

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Excited to be part of this super collection of articles on Cinema and Financial Speculation that has just appeared in French with Images Secondes. Some excellent pieces to catch up on over the holiday break: imagessecondes.fr/index.php/04...

Wfh day. Currently spinning:

Today is, believe it or not, the official publication date of “Finance Aesthetics - A Critical Glossary.” The perfect Christmas gift 🎁

Excited to be part of this super collection of articles on Cinema and Financial Speculation that has just appeared in French with Images Secondes. Some excellent pieces to catch up on over the holiday break: imagessecondes.fr/index.php/04...

Image of Queen Mary's Queens' Building with a decal of scrooge over it, while people are protesting at the bottom. Neatly sums up our employment relations in visual form. The image comes from the 22 December 2023 piece Aditya Chakrabortty wrote about the state of Queen Mary in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/22/university-took-staff-wages-scrooge-marking-boycott

We made a round-up on the other place (it’s nearly our anniversary on this app, but we didn’t post much of the events in the 1st half of the year)

Break-ins, court cases, bailiffs, eviction of toddlers. But most of all: many who chose QMUL to be so much better than this
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Last Thursday, over 1,000 people packed UCL's Logan Hall to listen to Thomas Piketty, Gillian Tett and Ash Sarkar at our CCS Inaugural Annual Conversation. Thank you all for an incredible evening, and stay tuned!

Went to the book launch for Tim’s new book this week - exciting work on film/cultural geography/precarity - big recommend!

Thanks v much James.

Brilliant subject for a book. I was excited when I first heard about this. I look forward to reviewing it soon…

Very excited to announce the publication of 10(3). The issue includes articles on the asset condition, Apartheid financing, and Insurtech, plus a forum on postcapitalist finance and some cracking review articles. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...