This is a group that will meet once a month (probably on a Monday) to discuss short stories by J.G. Ballard. Suggestions on relevant theory welcome (Baudrillard, anyone?)
Rubbish is coming to Birkbeck this summer: a series of events on reading the matter and metaphors of waste and value in and through spaces, objects and language. See More
Literary Representations of London's abject spaces in the 19th/early 20th century, particularly slums and informal street markets; urban exploratory fiction/journalism; psychoanalytic/spatial theory; representations of human superfluity and the symbolic ties between 'surplus' populations and material redundancy.
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