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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: 'A Studious Use' with Giovanni Marmont
DESCRIPTION:A Studious Use. Designing from the Undercommons. \nJoin us for some radical thinking\, some real radical autonomist thinking\, with one of our favourite vanguardist publishers\, Minor Compositions. Come and celebrate the publication of another vital\, alert and mind bending work of theory. \nA Studious Use invites readers to reconsider the habitual logics and material priorities at play in practices of both study and use. It examines their potential and actual interplay\, unravelling the ways in which these are at once shaped by and reproductive of broader social\, political\, and cultural currents. Here Giovanni Marmont explores how a seemingly inoffensive commitment to the terms of individuation\, as a manner of understanding and organising the world first and foremost as an aggregate of separate entities\, carries with it profoundly harmful implications. With an eye toward the unseen possibilities of social life\, he proposes an alternative mode of engagement with and through artefacts – studious use – predicated instead on our general\, shared\, practical indebtedness. Through a blend of theoretical critique\, philosophical inquiry\, and experimental design practices\, A Studious Use offers a rethinking of sociality not as a coming together of independent\, if interacting subjects and objects but\, rather\, as a primary\, undirected\, ongoing collective experiment. \nAuthor of For a Pragmatics of the Useless\,Erin Manning says: “How do practices dispossess us? How does use reorient the very question of function and form? Where else can it take us beyond our-selves? In this compelling engagement with use-beyond-use-value\, Marmont takes us on a journey to a non-binary account of use that refuses the limited account of any marketable claim. Instead\, it moves use toward the surprise of constellations as experimental as they are quotidian.” \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \nIf you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/book-launch-a-studious-use-with-giovanni-marmont/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260415T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260415T200000
DTSTAMP:20260508T171753
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: POLICING THE BEATS: Lambros Fatsis in conversation with Adèle Oliver
DESCRIPTION:Policing the beats: Black music\, racism and criminal injustice\nWe are absolutely delighted to welcome Lambros Fatsis to Housmans to discuss the criminalizing of black culture\, music and youth. We are thrilled also to welcome back the brilliant Adèle Oliver\, author of ‘Deeping it: Colonialism\, Culture and Criminalisation of UK Drill’\, to interview Lambros about his work. \nPolicing The Beats is a bold analysis that exposes the racist policing of Black music. The emergence of UK drill music made headline news\, portraying it as a criminal enterprise instead of recognising it as an art form. This new rap subgenre\, however\, is neither the first nor the only Black music to be targeted this way. \nPolicing the beats rewinds the tape to demonstrate how music has been used as an instrument for policing Black people\, from the era of colonial slavery to the present day\, revealing the racist legal processes that make crimes out of rhymes. \nThis original and readable book offers the first in-depth account of the policing of Black music in Britain\, highlighting the relationship between politics\, culture and criminal (in)justice and inviting music lovers\, scholars and activists to tune in. \nLambros and Adèle will talk for around 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by a q&a. \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \nIf you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/book-launch-policing-the-beats-lambros-fatsis-in-conversation-with-adele-oliver/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260416T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260416T190000
DTSTAMP:20260508T171753
CREATED:20260410T142931Z
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SUMMARY:Book launch: The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy Taking with Ida Susser
DESCRIPTION:We welcome Ida Susser to celebrate the publication of The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy Taking to the Streets of Paris in the 21st Century. \nWritten under the shadow of growing authoritarianism in the United States and Europe\, this book is an effort to understand resistance movements of the twenty-first century. It foregrounds the Yellow Vests to present an accurate and timely picture of a protest movement that baffled analysts and blurred the boundaries of left and right. \nComprehensively exploring the meaning of “les Gilets Jaunes triompheront” (the yellow vests will win)\, written on the Arc de Triomphe in 2018\, The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy details how people of all ages\, many from the provinces and the urban periphery\, rushed through the Paris streets\, breaking windows and braving tear gas\, challenging the ruling class in extraordinary and unpredictable ways. Avoiding hierarchy and stable organization\, and claiming a right to a territory or space that is between the private and the public\, these protests imagined a different form of collectivity that is not commodified but established by the social practice of “commoning”—of momentarily linking protests in the streets and other spaces. \nAn essential book for activists and researchers on contemporary protest movements\, this book offers crucial insight into the formation of protests and popular resistance and how social movements generate their own political and ideological character. \nAbout the author:\nIda Susser\, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center\, City University of New York\, has published on popular mobilizations\, social movements\, and the urban commons in the United States\, Europe\, and Southern Africa. Her books include Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood (2012) and the co- edited volumes\, Rethinking America (2009) and Wounded Cities (2003). \nhttps://www.salon.com/2026/03/28/what-american-activists-can-learn-from-france-right-now/ \nhttps://open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/why-you-cant-wear-a-yellow-vest-in
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/book-launch-the-yellow-vests-and-the-battle-for-democracy-taking-with-ida-susser/
LOCATION:Freedom Bookshop\, Angel Alley\, 84b Whitechapel High Street\, E1 7QX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260422T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260422T203000
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SUMMARY:NEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES
DESCRIPTION:NEW PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES: CHRISTINE DONOVAN & TOM VAGUE IN CONVERSATION\nJoin us for a conversation between two of the most brilliant writers of psychogeography working the country at the moment as they talk about their recent published works. Christine Donovan’s novel Dériveville explores the long term influence of the Situationist International. Setin 1981 in Paris it tells the story of English literary sensation Julia as she finds herself writing a screenplay with legendary nouvelle vague film director Lenica. The hedonism of the Cannes Film Festival\, the drug-fueled excitement of Les Bains Douche and the tentative writing of a second novel take Julia on a psychogeographical journey Paris. \nJoining Christine in conversation we welcome back to Housmans the living legend Tom Vague\, who has recently published a two part book: Getting It Straight in Notting Hill Gate. From the Palaeolithic age to the drug and sex fuelled psychedelia of the 60s and 70s to the glum post-gentfrified catatonia of the 2020s this work project is an exhaustive psychogeographical autoposy on Notting Hill; as well as a proposed revival. \n‘Vague presents this almost as the autobiography of Notting Hill with him as the inspired mouthpiece\, his own biography mixed with that of the subject. He is the place’ writes Cryptoforestry. \nTom and Christine will talk for around 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by a q&a. \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \nIf you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/new-psychogeographies/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260423T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260423T203000
DTSTAMP:20260508T171753
CREATED:20260414T023021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260415T211253Z
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SUMMARY:DOG SECTION PRESS PRESENTS: FEMINISMS
DESCRIPTION:Dog Section Press presents an evening of poetry\, words and music in celebration of their recent publication: Feminisms. \nCurated and hosted by Antonia May Cross\, featuring book contributors Janey Starling (Yakkie band) & Abu Leila (London Renters Union) and music and poetry from Dream Date and Alice Brady. \nFeminisms is a collection of ten essays from a diverse milieu of writers on the subject of feminism. Each piece is illustrated by Cat Sims. \nFeminisms features: Ren Aldridge & Janey Starling\, Stacey Clare\, Abu Leila\, Lola Olufemi\, Leah Cowan\, Emma Heaney\, Nazmia Jamal\, Sophie K Rosa\, Sophie Lewis and Dilar Dirik. \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \nIf you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/dog-section-press-presents-feminisms/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Gigs,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260424T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260424T203000
DTSTAMP:20260508T171753
CREATED:20260330T142920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T143844Z
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SUMMARY:PUBLIC LECTURE: Laurence Housman and the Women's Suffrage Movement
DESCRIPTION:Learn about Housmans’ namesake and his efforts to fight for women’s suffrage. This free talk is in collaboration UCL\, who hold the Laurence Housman archive. Personal items of Housman’s taken from the archive will be on display. \nThis public lecture will explore Housmans Bookshop namesake Laurence Housman (1865-1958) and his active role in the women’s suffrage movement. It will shed new light on UCL’s Laurence Housman Collection by discussing how Housman’s sociopolitical values emerged during the Victorian period as he developed an artistic practice as an Aesthetic and Decadent illustrator. Housman was also a writer who would go on to contribute to Votes for Women (1908-18)\, a suffrage newspaper edited by Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence. He would later collaborate with his sister\, the engraver Clemence Housman\, to found the Suffrage Atelier\, an artists’ collective. Using illustration as a form of social and political resistance\, Housman designed An Anti-Suffrage Alphabet (1911)\, a work that featured many women artists who would go on to forge professional careers\, including Pamela Colman Smith. \nDr Michelle Reynolds is a researcher in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and visual culture. Her PhD thesis\, which she completed at the University of Exeter\, considered the professionalisation of women illustrators and cartoonists in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and their relationship to the socio-political and cultural phenomenon of the New Woman. Her research interests include women artists and designers\, illustration and book studies\, gender and sexuality\, reform movements\, dress histories\, and graphic satire. \nThis is a free event\, but please RSVP. Link below: \n 
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/public-lecture-laurence-housman-and-the-womens-suffrage-movement/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260424T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260424T193000
DTSTAMP:20260508T171753
CREATED:20260409T022947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T162454Z
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SUMMARY:Old Bomb Theatre Company presents "Craggy Hole Caves"
DESCRIPTION:Nele Poolerton is the local guide at Craggy Hole Caves in Yorkshire giving tours on prehistoric finds. However lately she’s had to live at work and she’s struggling to understand the intentions of her limited boss\, Stanley. Why is there a pillar in the cave called a witch? Where do the other caves lead? When did history first teach that god was a man?“Did you know that Neanderthals actually worshipped women? Yeah\, first religion ever was no pie-in-the-sky beardy bloke for them. None of this pale\, male and stale crap. No\, they worshipped women”Through the caves\, Nele takes us on a tour of the female reproductive system\, “yer basic cradle of life”. Craggy Hole Caves is funny\, it’s rude\, it looks at history when it was herstory and it plays with fire.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/old-bomb-theatre-company-presents-craggy-hole-caves/
LOCATION:The Feminist Library\, 161 Sumner Road\, SE15 6JL
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260429T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260429T203000
DTSTAMP:20260508T171753
CREATED:20260331T142936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T143915Z
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: The Journal of a Kurdish Political Prisoner
DESCRIPTION:Join for a discussion of the journal of Kurdish revolutionary\, Ali Poyraz. He spent twenty-one years and four months in Turkish prisons. He was born in 1962 in Bozüyük\, an Alevi village in the Gürün district of Sivas. According to Yeni Özgür Politika\, his political consciousness was shaped by his older brother\, Hüseyin Poyraz (also known as Rubar Dicle)\, a member of the PKK Central Committee. In 1981\, Ali was captured by Turkish authorities in a rural area of Pazarcık while serving as a PKK cadre. Tried by a military court\, he was sentenced to death. Although the Turkish Supreme Court upheld the sentence\, it was later commuted to twenty-one years and four months of imprisonment following the abolition of the death penalty in Turkey under Prime Minister Turgut Özal. \nAli’s journal records his thoughts and observations\, providing invaluable insight into life inside Turkish prisons\, including the organisation\, morale\, and activities of political prisoners. His journal is a mine of information that lends itself to much probing and understanding of the conflict between the Turkish state and the PKK over the past 45 years. This book is published for scholarly purposes\, following the recent disbandment of the PKK as an armed force\, and the changing political landscape in Turkey today. \nWe will discuss this powerful and important book\, followed by a wider discussion of political imprisonment more generally. \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \nIf you choose ‘book +entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00. \n 
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/book-talk-the-journal-of-a-kurdish-political-prisoner/
LOCATION:Housmans\, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross\, N1 9DX
CATEGORIES:Bookshops/Libraries,Presentations
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