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Goldsmiths’ Olympic Podium

Posted: December 3, 2011 by raquelmachtus in The Museum

http://cms.gold.ac.uk/student/podium-competition/   I think this will give us something to talk about on Tuesday, museum group!

Prison Abolition 101

Posted: November 26, 2011 by raquelmachtus in Events

From the Tent City University at St. Paul’s: Prison Abolition 101 When Sun, 27 November, 17:00 – 18:00 Description Bent Bars, a queer prison letter-writing project, will facilitate a discussion on the prison industrial complex and it’s place in the capitalist system. Find out more about the case against prisons, why as occupy activists we [...]

Miscellany

Posted: November 1, 2011 by raquelmachtus in The Museum

David’s talk about his journey through the Olympic Games area (Hackney?) and the evident gentrification that they’re provoking in the area reminded me of what happened in Barcelona in the 1992 Olympics and, more recently, in the 2004 Forum of Cultures. I remember that one of the main reasons for controversy concerning the Forum was [...]

We are the experts

Posted: October 28, 2011 by raquelmachtus in The Stadium

It is inherent in the technique of the film as well as that of sports that everybody who witnesses its accomplishments is somewhat of an expert. This is obvious to anyone listening to a group of newspaper boys leaning on their bicycles and discussing the outcome of a bicycle race. It is not for nothing [...]