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This is a reading/discussion group on the (historical) avant-garde, as distinct from modernism more generally, i.e. focusing on expressionism, futurism, vorticism, constructivism, dada, early surrealism, etc. This list isn't intended to be restrictive, and there are many other isms that could be included, as well as less programmatic manifestations. The sessions will be shaped by the interests of the participants, but the idea is basically to do close readings of primary texts in a range of…See More

The ArtLess Group is an open platform, network and community open to all School of Arts M.Phil/PhDs. Its a chance to develop collaborations and projects, to leverage funding, to connect to initiatives with others and to pool the collective creative resources and connections we all have> . To take part here, please sign up first as a member at…See More

The launch of a new group reading "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy" by Karl Marx, published in 1859. Fortnightly meetings starting on 28 February at 7 pm - the next meeting is on 14 March at 7 pm for which we are reading "Chapter 1 - The Commodity" (upto and including Note a)). This is the work which later evolved into Part I of the first volume of Capital and Marx's method of analysis and synthesis, as well as his excitement at finally getting out of his study, is perhaps…See More

hopefully a bit of a tool for the new lot of us to contact, communicate, support, engage &cSee More

A postgraduate reading group exploring the culture of things and objectsSee More

As part of the Poetics Centre, Birkbeck, the ON seminars are a series of round table discussions on the practice of research in poetry and poetics. ON focuses on collaborative thinking and shared connectivity in theory and practice.