Book Launch
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BOOK Launch: How the establishment lost control
"The post-war consensus is breaking up. The general election result, the 2014 Scottish referendum and the Brexit vote all testify to an insurgent mood amongst swathes of the population. This book attempts to explain these dramatic developments and to show how they question received notions about politics, history and how change happens." Come and hear […]
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Book Club and Book Launch: Politics & Protest and Naked Guide to Bristol book launch
Book Club at PRSC with Tangent Books presents Politics & Protest and Naked Guide to Bristol book launch Author Q&A 7pm Join photographer and author Pete Maginnis and publisher Richard Jones to celebrate the launch of the third edition of Don Pedro presents Politics & Protest and the sixth edition of The Naked Guide to […]
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John D’oh Book Launch
Bristol radical street artist John D’oh releases a fascinating new book on October 12. Street Art And Graffiti: A Dissertation By Street Artist John D’oh (Tangent Books £14) gives an insider view into the world of street art. It is essential reading for teachers and students working on urban art projects and is also aimed […]
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism book launch with Aaron Bastani
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomA different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity and capitalism. In Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Aaron Bastani conjures a vision of extraordinary hope, showing how we move to energy abundance, feed a world of 9 billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of biology, and establish meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination, such a society merely heralds the real beginning of history.
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Stolen w/ Grace Blakeley // Bristol Launch
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomIn the decade leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, booming banks, rising house prices and cheap consumer goods propped up living standards in the rich world. Thirty years of rocketing debt and financial wizardry had masked the deep underlying fragility of finance-led growth, and in 2008 we were forced to pay up. The decade since has witnessed all kinds of morbid symptoms, as all around the rich world, wages and productivity are stagnant, inequality is rising, and ecological systems are collapsing. Stolen is a history of finance-led growth and a guide as to how we might escape it. We’ve sat back as financial capitalism has stolen our economies, our environment and even the future itself. Now, we have an opportunity to change course. What happens next is up to us.
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Raise the Bar ‘Spotlight’ | Tom Sastry’s Book Launch
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomRaise the Bar's popular 'Spotlight' open mic event is back for a special edition at PRSC, celebrating the launch of Tom Sastry's 'Complicity' with Nine Arches Press. Spotlight focuses on the emerging talent pool of Bristol and its surrounding areas, providing a relaxed and welcoming environment for newbies, veterans and anybody in between to perform their work to a warm and intimate audience in the heart of Stokes Croft.
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Steal As Much As You Can: Bristol Launch w/ Nathalie Olah
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomTory austerity has created suffering for millions, as well a generation beset with financial insecurity and crisis. Yet our TV, film, music, art and literature have never looked so rich, or so posh. During a period of immense struggle, the experiences of the majority have been pushed to the margins of our collective culture by the legacy media and its satellite industries – making it hard, if not impossible, to challenge those in power. Steal as Much as You Can is the story of how this happened, exploring the rise of affluence in mainstream storytelling, and the corrosive effects of neoliberal and postmodern culture.
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The Twittering Machine: Bristol Launch w/ Richard Seymour
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomIn surrealist artist Paul Klee’s The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for our relationship with social media. Through journalism, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users, developers, security experts and others, Seymour probes the human side of the machine, asking what we’re getting out of it, and what we’re getting into.
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Hostile Environment Book Launch with Maya Goodfellow
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomJoin us for the Bristol book launch of Maya Goodfellow's 'Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats'. As refugees drowned in the Mediterranean, the UK Government proudly announced that the aim of its immigration policy was to create a ‘hostile environment’ for undocumented immigrants. Despite study after study confirming that immigration is not damaging the economy or putting a strain on public services, migrants continue to be blamed for all the UK’s ills. How did we get here?
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Monopsony Capitalism Book Launch with Ashok Kumar
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomThis book explores the combination of capital's changing composition and labour's subjective agency to examine whether the waning days of the 'sweatshop' have indeed begun.
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Daring to Hope: Book Launch with Sheilah Rowbotham
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomIn this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at the women’s liberation movement, left politics and the vibrant, creative culture of a decade in which freedom and equality seemed possible. It is a riveting personal history of second wave feminism from the front line. After addressing the first Women’s Liberation Conference at Ruskin College, Oxford, […]
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Daring to Hope: Talk, Q&A, and Book Launch with Sheilah Rowbotham
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBook Tickets Talk and Q&A with author and activist Sheila Rowbotham, to launch her new book Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s. Sheila will be in conversation with Sue Tate who is a freelance art historian, a Trustee of the Feminist Archive South, a socialist feminist, member of the Monica Sjöö Curatorial Collective […]
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What is the Post-Internet Far Right? Book Launch and Talk
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomDiscuss the current state of the online far right, and how we can fight against it, with Bristol Antifa and ‘12 Rules for What’ podcast hosts Sam and Alex.
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Artificial Islands: Book Launch with Owen Hatherley
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed are very pleased to have the wonderful Owen Hatherley back in Bristol for a chat and Q+A to launch his new book, Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions. Great Britain has just left one Union. But might the island’s future lie in another Union altogether, with its former colonial “kith and kin” in a trans-oceanic super-state with Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Welcome to the strange world of the “CANZUK Union”, the name for a quixotic but apparently serious plan to reunify the white-majority “Dominions” of the British Empire under the flag of low taxes, strong borders and climate change denialism.
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Workers Can Win – Book tour & workshop
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomJoin Bristol Transformed for an afternoon with Ian Allinson, who’s been taking his new book “Workers Can Win” up and down the country to inspire new organisers and give them the tools they need to win working-class power. Following the conversation with Ian, you’ll take part in a workshop that will give you a taste of some of the ideas and techniques from the book and get you thinking about how you can take them forwards into your own workplace.
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Book Launch: Friends of Israel
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed turns to the Israel/Palestine agenda with Hil Aked ‘Friends of Israel’ book launch. Focusing on an anti-racist analysis of key UK figures in the recent suppression of Palestinian solidarity, Aked shows Britain’s complicity in the ongoing occupation.
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A Nation of Shopkeepers: Book Launch
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed are excited to welcome Dan Evans for a discussion of his new book "A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie". Dan will talk through the key points of his book, with plenty of time for question, discussion & debate from the audience.
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The Future of Housing with Peter Apps
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomJoin The Bristol Cable in welcoming the award-winning author and housing journalist Peter Apps, in conversation with Ruth Day, to discuss Bristol's ongoing housing crisis and what we can do about it.
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The Rentier City – book launch
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomAuthor Isaac Rose joins us to discuss his new book "The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis"!
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Capitalism: A Horror Story – book launch
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomAuthor Jon Greenaway, host of the Horror Vanguard, joins us to discuss his new book "Capitalism: A Horror Story", in conversation with Mark Steven author of Splatter Capital.
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The Netherhole Martyr Book Launch + Performance
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomThe Netherhole Martyr is a lyrical and gruesome exploration of idealised femininity, toilet accessibility, chronic pain, religious idolatry, and the dark interior of the bowel. Good Friends for a Lifetime will perform an extract from the play, followed by a Q&A with publisher Joe Vaughan.
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GUILLOTINES Launch Event
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomYou are invited to a free event to launch a new radical publication - Guillotines, a beautiful, fully-illustrated 210 page book/journal!
Free (Donations welcome)