Jeremy Gilbert is a writer, researcher and activist whose work has appeared in various British, continental, American and Australian publications and has been translated into French, Spanish and German. His most recent book is, Anticapitalism and Culture and he has co-authored books on the philosophy of dance music and the relationship between culture and politics in Blair’s Britain as well as publishing numerous articles on cultural theory, politics and music.

If you would like to look at some recent thoughts / comments / errata on Jeremy's books by Jeremy, then you can visit his permanently half-built website here.

Here are some exciting free samples of his academic writing, commentary and other stuff:

Special online-only exclusives:

• Moving on From the Market Society: Culture (and Cultural Studies) in a Post-Democratic Age - this was the talk of Jeremy's plenary lecture at Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2012
• Sharing the Pain: The Emotional Politics of Austerity
• This is the text of Jeremy's talk to the Demos institute in Ghent, in May 2010, which was a response to Richard Wilkinson's hugely important book, The Spirit Level.
  
• 'Creativity and and Continuity in the Sonic Sphere' is an essay about creativity, capitalism, and hardcore which will be appearing in print soon, but only in German. He might write up a full-length version for English publication some time (it's really an extension of his internvention into the ongoing debate over Simon Reynolds' concept of the 'hardcore continuum')
• If you want some audio techno-babble, you can check out the interview with Jeremy in the superb Museum of Techno.

Some academic writing:

• 'Deleuzian Politics? A Survey and Some Suggestions in new formations 68
• After 68: Narratives of the New Capitalism' in New Formations Autumn 2008
• ‘The Forum and the Market: The Complexity of the Social and the Struggle for Democracy’ Ephemera: Critical dialogues on Organization 2005, Volume 3, Number 2 www.ephemeraweb.org
• Signifying Nothing: 'Culture', 'Discourse' and the Sociality of Affect in Culture Machine 6 (2004) (culturemachine.tees.ac.uk)
• ‘The Second Wave: the specificity of New Labour neo-liberalism in Soundings 26 (Lawrence &Wishart 2004)
• ‘Small Faces: The Tyranny of Celebrity in post-Oedipal culture’ in Mediactive 2 (Lawrence & Wishart 2004)

Commentary:

• Postmodernity and the Crisis of Democracy, open Democracy 28 May 2009
• Democratise or Die: The Status Quo is not an Option for Labour, open Democracy 31 May 2010
• Elitism, Philistinism and Populism: The Sorry Tale of British Higher Education Policy, open Democracy 14 January 2010
• The Great University Swindle, Comment is Free, 12 January 2010
• The Loss of Philosophy, Red Pepper, 12 May 2010
• The UK's 2010 General Election: Will it mean anything at all? open Democracy 10 April 2010

At present Jeremy is working on a book about ideas of collectivity in the 21st century. He is editor of the leading cultural theory journal, New Formations and is an adviser to several other journals, and has spoken at conferences from Vienna to San Diego. He has also contributed to national press publications and BBC radio programmes. He was a founder organiser of both Signs of the Times and the London Social Forum and a convenor of the Radical Theory Forum at the European Social Forum, Paris in 2003 and London in 2004.

Jeremy writes with varying degrees of regularity for Open Democracy, Comment is Free Soundings and Red Pepper . He is also a member of Lucky Cloud Sound System and sometimes plays records at Beauty and the Beat.

He was a keynote speaker at the 2007 Cultural Studies Now conference.

Shortform CV

Qualifications

• MA Critical Theory (Distinction) University of Sussex
• DPhil Media & Cultural Studies, University of Sussex

Previous Positions Held

• Teaching Assistant in the School of Cultural and Community Studies, University of Sussex

Translations

• 'Continuity and Creativity in the Sonic Sphere' currently in translation for the German collection They Say I'm Different
• 'Pouvoir de la Musique' in Art Press 2, December 2009
• Jeremy Gilbert & Ewan Pearson Cultura y Politicas de la Música Dance (Paidós, 2003)
• Various interviews translated into Spanish and German.

• Post-structuralism /post-Marxism
• Capitalism and Anticapitalism
• Schizoanalysis
• Affect and the body
• Collectivity, community and sociality
• Music and power
• Postmodern politics and radical democracy

• CC3201
• CC3206
• CC3202
• Contemporary Cultural Theory
• Culture, Power and Politics

Publications post-2001

Books

Anticapitalism and Culture (Berg 2008)

Forthcoming Books

• Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in An Age of Individualism (Pluto 2013) - due out November 2013

Peer–Reviewed Journal Articles

• ‘The Pedagogy of the Body: Affect and Collective Individuation in the Classroom and on the Dancefloor’ in Educational Philosophy and Theory, November 2012

• 'Deleuzian Politics? A Survey and Some Suggestions in new formations 68
• After 68: Narratives of the New Capitalism' in New Formations Autumn 2008
• Against the Commodification of Everything: Anti-Capitalist Cultural Studies in an Age of Ecological Crisis' in Cultural Studies September 2008
• 'Public Secrets: ‘Being-With’ In an Era of Perpetual Disclosure’ in Cultural Studies, January 2007
• Dyer and Deleuze: Post-Structuralist Cultural Criticism’ in New Formations 2006
• ‘The Forum and the Market: The Complexity of the Social and the Struggle for Democracy’ Ephemera: Critical dialogues on Organization 2005, Volume 3, Number 2 www.ephemeraweb.org
• Signifying Nothing: 'Culture', 'Discourse' and the Sociality of Affect in Culture Machine 6 (2004) (culturemachine.tees.ac.uk)
• ‘The Second Wave: the specificity of New Labour neo-liberalism in Soundings 26 (Lawrence &Wishart 2004)
• ‘Small Faces: The Tyranny of Celebrity in post-Oedipal culture’ in Mediactive 2 (Lawrence & Wishart 2004)
• ‘A Certain Ethics of Openness: Radical Democratic Cultural Studies’ in Strategies November 2001 (USA)
• ‘Against the Empire: Thinking the Social and (dis)locating agency ‘before, across and beyond any national determination’ in Parallax Vol. 7 No3, 2001
• ‘Soundtrack for an Uncivil Society: Rave Culture, The Criminal Justice Act and the Politics of Modernity’ in New Formations Summer 1997

Book Chapters

• ‘What Does Democracy Feel Like? Form, Function, Affect, and the Materiality of the Sign’ in Lincoln Dahlberg & Sean Phelan (eds) (2011) Discourse Theory and Media Politics, Palgrave

• 'A Radical Future?' in Ben Little (ed.) Radical Future: Politics for the Next Generation, Lawrenece & Wishart 2010
• 'Beyond Gesture, Beyond Pragmatism' (with Jo Littler) in Jonathan Pugh (ed.) What is Radical Politics Today, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
• ‘All the Right Questions, All the wrong Answers ’ in Paul Bowman & Richard Stamp (es.) (2007) The Truth of Zizek, Continuum
• ‘Cultural Studies and Anti-Capitalism’ in Birchall & Hall (eds) (2006) New Cultural Studies, Edinburgh University Press
• ‘Becoming-Music: The rhizomatic moment of improvisation’ in Buchanan, Ian & Marcel Swiboda (eds) Deleuze and Music, Edinburgh University Press, 2004
• ‘Friends and Enemies: Which Side is Cultural Studies On?’ in Paul Bowman (ed.) Interrogating Cultural Studies, Pluto 2003
• ‘Music Studies’ entries for The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 2002-4, The English Association, 2003-5

Recent Journalism / Commentary

• ‘Capitalism, creativity and the crisis in the music industry’ September 14^th 2012 Open Democracy

• ‘After individualism: The unfinished business of New Times’ in Public Policy Research, September  - November 2011.
• Postmodernity and the Crisis of Democracy, open Democracy 28 May 2009
• Democratise or Die: The Status Quo is not an Option for Labour, open Democracy 31 May 2010
• Elitism, Philistinism and Populism: The Sorry Tale of British Higher Education Policy, open Democracy 14 January 2010
• The Great University Swindle, Comment is Free, 12 January 2010
• The Loss of Philosophy, Red Pepper, 12 May 2010
• The UK's 2010 General Election: Will it mean anything at all? open Democracy 10 April 2010

Key publications pre 2001:

• Jeremy Gilbert & Ewan Pearson Discographies: Dance Music, Culture, and the Politics of Sound Routledge, July 1999.
• Timothy Bewes & Jeremy Gilbert (eds.) Cultural Capitalism: Politics after New Labour, Lawrence & Wishart, December 2000
• 'Pop Politics and Populism' in Anne Coddington & Mark Perryman (eds.) The Moderniser's Dilemma. Lawrence & Wishart, 1998.
• ‘White Light/ White Heat; Jouissance Beyond Gender in the Velvet Underground’ in, Andrew Blake (ed.) Living Through Pop. Routledge, July 1999.