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Dr Jeremy Gilbert
Location: EB.2.60, Docklands
Contact address:
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of East London
Docklands Campus
4-6 University Way
London E16 2RD
Brief biography:
Jeremy Gilbert is a writer, researcher and activist whose work has appeared in various British, American and Australian publications and has been translated into 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.
At present Jeremy is working on a book about ideas of collectivity in the 21st century. He is one fo the two current editors 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
- BA (Hons) Cultural Studies (1st) , University of East London 1994
- MA Critical Theory (Distinction) University of Sussex 1995
- DPhil Media & Cultural Studies, University of Sussex 2000
Previous Positions Held
- Teaching Assistant in the School of Cultural and Community Studies, University of Sussex, 1995-7
Translations
- Jeremy Gilbert & Ewan Pearson Cultura y Politicas de la Música Dance (Paidós, 2003)
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Activities/responsible for:
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Areas of interest/Summary of Expertise:
- Post-structuralism /post-Marxism
- Capitalism and Anticapitalism
- Schizoanalysis
- Affect and the body
- Collectivity, community and sociality
- Music and power
- Postmodern politics and radical democracy
Teaching:
Programmes:
- CC3201
- CC3206
- CC3202
- Contemporary Cultural Theory
- Culture, Power and Politics
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Research / Publications:
Current research:
Publications post-2001
Books
Anticapitalism and Culture (Berg 2008)
Forthcoming Books
- Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in An Age of Individualism (Pluto 2009)
Peer–Reviewed Journal Articles
- '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) http://www.l-w-bks.co.uk/journals/articles/contents.html
- ‘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
- ‘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
Book reviews
- Review of Howarth, Norvall and Savrakakis (eds) Discourse Theory and Political Analysis in New Formations Summer 2002
- ‘Becoming Stuart’ Review of Paul Gilroy, Lawrence Grossberg and Angela McRobbie (eds) Without Guarantees: In Honour of Stuart Hall in New Formations Spring 2002
- Review of Deconstructing Disney by Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan in Textual Practice 15 (2) 2001
- ‘A Question of Sport? Butler contra Laclau contra Zizek’ review of Butler, Laclau, Zizek Contingency, Hegemony Universality New Formations Autumn 2001
Journalism / Commentary
- One more chance for the 'Progressive Consensus'? www.redpepper.org.uk May 2005
- Review of Hardt and Negri’s Multitude in Red Pepper May 2005
- ‘The New International: A Report from The European Social Forum’ www.signsofthetimes.org.uk December 2002
- ‘Harry Potter and the Third Way’ www.OpenDemocracy.net November 28th 2001
- ‘Lessons We Never Learned From Rave Culture’ The Independent April 02 2001
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Research archive:
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.
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