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SUMMARY:UTOPIA: Dreamscape Mag Launch
DESCRIPTION:Tickets\nCome and join us at PRSC for the launch of UTOPIA’s: Dreamscape issue. We’re so excited to share all of the hard work that went into this issue with you all.\nThe ticket will get you access to the event\, a copy of the mag and the TRASHION 2025 look book: EUPHORIC. \nSo come dressed in your best dreamscape attire and we can’t wait to see you all there . \nXoxo\,\nFFS \nEntry requirements: 18+
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/utopia-dreamscape-mag-launch/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Exhibition,Poetry
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SUMMARY:GUILLOTINES Launch Event
DESCRIPTION:Tickets\nYou are invited to a free event to launch a new radical publication – Guillotines!\nOur beautiful\, fully-illustrated 210 page book/journal has hit the streets and we want you to be there to see it! \nA new radical publication by Plan C\, bringing a fresh cut of ideas\, analysis and reflection in a world of terminal\, accelerating crises and class and social movements struggling to find themselves. We hope the ideas contained in this issue and future ones become useful contributions to shape each other and the insurgent movements that are required to emerge if we are to have any chance of making the world anew. \nCome and join Plan C for reading and discussion based around the themes of the journal – refusal\, organisation\, care and revolution. \nThere will be free food and a bar. \n* Weds 1st October 2025\n* From 7:30pm\n* PRSC\, The Space\, 17-25 Jamaica Street BS2 8JP \nThe room in which the event will take place is wheelchair accessible but the toilets are not. There are two sofas for those that need more comfortable seating. \nIf you can’t make the event but still want to get your hands on a copy\, you can order one for £10 here: www.weareplanc.org/shop.\nYou can also find out a lot more about Plan C from our website. \nHope to see you there! \nweareplanc.org \nAny questions? Email us at email hidden; JavaScript is required \n“we remind ourselves of the simple constant truth that we must struggle\, however we can and with a genuine hope of winning” \nEntry requirements: no age restrictions
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/guillotines-launch-event/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Education,Magazine Launch,Politics,Protest
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SUMMARY:The Netherhole Martyr Book Launch + Performance
DESCRIPTION:TicketsJoin theatre company Good Friends for a Lifetime and local small press Strange Region to celebrate the launch of The Netherhole Martyr. \nThe Netherhole Martyr is a lyrical and gruesome exploration of idealised femininity\, toilet accessibility\, chronic pain\, religious idolatry\, and the dark interior of the bowel. \nGood Friends for a Lifetime will perform an extract from the play\, followed by a Q&A with publisher Joe Vaughan. \nCome for good cheer\, for fine beers and wines\, for liturgical plainchants\, for book signing and selling and an evening of gastroenterological delights. \nDoors are at 19:00 with the event starting at 19:30.
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/the-netherhole-martyr/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Capitalism: A Horror Story - book launch
DESCRIPTION:Tickets\nAuthor 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.\nA horror-story history of capitalism and its relationship to the haunted and the gothic\, and a manifesto of Gothic Marxism\, which finds revolutionary hope in the nightmare of modernity. \nWhat does it mean to see horror in capitalism? What can horror tell us about the state and nature of capitalism? \nBlending film criticism\, cultural theory\, and philosophy\, Capitalism: A Horror Story examines literature\, film\, and philosophy\, from Frankenstein to contemporary cinema\, delving into the socio-political function of the monster\, the haunted nature of the digital world\, and the inescapable horror of contemporary capitalist politics. \nRevitalizing the tradition of Romantic anticapitalism and offering a “dark way of being red”\, Capitalism: A Horror Story argues for a Gothic Marxism\, showing how we can find revolutionary hope in horror- a site of monstrous becoming that opens the door to a Utopian future. \nTickets are pay-what-you-can with a suggested minimum donation of £3.00 in order to help cover venue costs. There are some limited free tickets as well for people who will struggle to contribute this. \n————————\nBristol Transformed is a grassroots\, volunteer-run\, socialist education group. Bringing together activists\, trade unionists\, and everyone who wants to learn\, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us\, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world. \nWe run an annual festival of politics\, arts and culture in May\, and weekly events throughout the rest of the year. Find all our events here: https://hdfst.uk/bt-calendar-23-24
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/capitalism-a-horror-story-book-launch/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Rentier City - book launch
DESCRIPTION:Tickets\nAuthor Isaac Rose joins us to discuss his new book “The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis”!\nIn cities across the world\, gentrification and the housing crisis are facts of life. But how did we get to this point? And is there any way we can fight back? \nA good place to begin answering these questions is Manchester\, England. Over the last thirty years\, corporate developers\, rentier capitalists and boosterist politicians have reshaped Manchester in their image\, replacing its working-class communities\, public spaces and affordable housing with skyscrapers\, luxury developments and a private rental market that creates wealth for rentiers and impoverishes everybody else. \nThe Rentier City traces this story\, showing how it fits within the longer history of Manchester. In doing so unveils a larger story of the relationship between capital and our cities\, between rentier and rentee\, and gives us a blueprint of how fight back against rentier capitalism and take back control of the cities we live in. \nTickets are pay-what-you-can with a suggested minimum donation of £3.00 in order to help cover venue costs. There are some limited free tickets as well for people who will struggle to contribute this. \n————————\nBristol Transformed is a grassroots\, volunteer-run\, socialist education group. Bringing together activists\, trade unionists\, and everyone who wants to learn\, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us\, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world. \nWe run an annual festival of politics\, arts and culture in May\, and weekly events throughout the rest of the year. Find all our events here: https://hdfst.uk/bt-calendar-23-24
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/the-rentier-city-book-launch/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Future of Housing with Peter Apps
DESCRIPTION:TicketsWhat is behind the ongoing housing crisis?\nHow has the government failed us?\nHow do we combat spiraling rent prices?\nAnd most importantly: what needs to change? \nJoin 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. \nThere will also be an opportunity for a Q+A and copies of Peter’s book ‘Show Me The Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen’ available to buy \nPeter Apps is a journalist who primarily writes about building safety and social housing. Over a 10 year career at the specialist magazine Inside Housing\, he has won numerous awards for his news and analysis of the UK’s affordable housing sector. He was one of the few to raise concerns about dangerous cladding and high rise buildings before the Grenfell Tower fire\, and provided revelatory reporting in its aftermath into the causes of the blaze. This reporting culminated in his acclaimed book\, Show Me The Bodies\, which won the 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Writing. \nRuth Day is a Bristol-based housing activist and campaigner working to create democratic\, affordable\, tenant-owned and managed housing for students in Bristol.
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/the-future-of-housing/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Discussion,Education,Politics,Talk
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SUMMARY:A Nation of Shopkeepers: Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:TicketsBristol 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. \nThe petty bourgeoisie — the insecure class between the working class and the bourgeoisie — is hugely significant within global politics. Yet it remains something of a mystery. \nInitially identified as a powerful political force by theorists like Marx and Poulantzas\, the petit-bourgeoisie was expected to decline\, as small businesses and small property were gradually swallowed up by monopoly capitalism. Yet\, far from disappearing\, structural changes to the global economy under neoliberalism have instead grown the petty bourgeoisie\, and the individualist values associated with it have been popularized by a society which fetishizes “aspiration”\, home ownership and entrepreneurship. So why has this happened? \nA Nation of Shopkeepers sheds a light on this mysterious class\, exploring the class structure of contemporary Britain and the growth of the petty bourgeoisie following Thatcherism. It shows how the rise of home ownership\, small landlordism and radical changes to the world of work have increasingly inculcated values of petty bourgeois individualism; how popular culture has promoted and reproduced values of aspiration and conspicuous consumption that militate against socialist organizing; and\, most importantly\, what the unstoppable rise of the petit-bourgeoisie means for the left. \nBuy tickets from Headfirst. A Nation of Shopkeepers is available to buy from Repeater Books.
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/a-nation-of-shopkeepers/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Debate,Discussion,Education,Politics,Talk
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Friends of Israel
DESCRIPTION:Book a FREE ticketBristol Transformed welcomes Hil Aked to discuss their new book “Friends of Israel: The Backlash against Palestinian Solidarity”\, due to be published by Verso in mid-April. \n‘Friends of Israel provides a forensically researched account of the activities of Israel’s advocates in Britain\, showing how they contribute to maintaining Israeli apartheid. The book traces the history and changing fortunes of key actors within the British Zionist movement in the context of the Israeli government’s contemporary efforts to repress a rising tide of solidarity with Palestinians expressed through the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Offering a nuanced and politically relevant account of pro-Israel actors’ strategies\, tactics\, and varying levels of success in key arenas of society\, it draws parallels with the similar anti-boycott campaign waged by supporters of the erstwhile apartheid regime in South Africa. \n‘By demystifying the actors involved in the Zionist movement\, the book provides an anti-racist analysis of the pro-Israel lobby which robustly rebuffs anti-Semitic conspiracies. Sensitively and accessibly written\, it emphasises the complicity of British actors – both those in government and in civil society. Drawing on a range of sources including interviews with leading pro-Israel activists and Palestinian rights activists\, documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests and archival material\, Friends of Israel is a much-needed contribution to Israel/Palestine-related scholarship and a useful resource for the Palestine solidarity movement.’ (Verso Books) \nBook your free ticket on Headfirst »
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/book-launch-friends-of-israel/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Discussion,Politics,Talk
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SUMMARY:Workers Can Win – Book tour & workshop
DESCRIPTION:TicketsJoin 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. We’ll be asking Ian how the book came about\, what’re the most important lessons he’s learnt\, and what even is organising anyway? 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. The event will end with an opportunity to ask Ian and other experienced organisers anything you’ve ever wanted to know about moving your colleagues to action and winning at work. \nThe Covid\, climate\, and cost of living crises all hang heavy in the air. It’s more obvious than ever that we need radical social and political change. But in the vacuum left by defeated labour movements\, where should we begin? For Ian\, the answer is clear: organizing at work is essential to rebuilding working-class power. The premise is simple: organizing builds confidence\, capacity\, and collective power – and with power\, we can win change. Workers Can Win is an essential\, practical guide for rank-and-file workers and union activists. \nWe ask attendees to give £4 that goes towards our costs of the event. If you feel unable to afford that but still wish to attend please get in touch and we’ll happily send you a ticket. \nTickets available from Headfirst.
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/workers-can-win-book-tour-workshop/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Artificial Islands: Book Launch with Owen Hatherley
DESCRIPTION:TicketsBristol 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. \nGreat 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? \nWelcome 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. \nArtificial Islands tests this idea that Britain’s closest relations are in these three countries in North America and the South Pacific\, through a thorough investigation of the townscapes and buildings of several cities within “CANZUK”. In this settler zone we can find some of the most purely modern landscapes in the world — British-designed cities that were built with extreme rapidity in forcibly seized territories on the other side of the world\, created specifically to make the colonisers feel at home. \nThis book uncovers the secret histories of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British architecture in the Dominions — from Neo-Gothic cathedrals and parliaments\, to rows of terraces and suburbs of semis\, Edwardian baroque museums and classical war memorials\, right up to post-war high-rise estates and Brutalist experiments. \nTickets from Headfirst »
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/artificial-islands-book-launch-with-owen-hatherley/
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SUMMARY:What is the Post-Internet Far Right? Book Launch and Talk
DESCRIPTION:Where has the far-right gone? It has changed. \nIt has not gone away – far from it\, it is developing online and away from the public gaze – it is more powerful now than it has been for a generation. It has produced new configurations of tactics\, priorities\, and goals. The far right is in a state of productive diversification. It has yet to cohere around a new stable formulation; however\, it almost certainly will\, and we must be ready for it. \nJoin Sam and Alex from the podcast ‘12 Rules for What’ to discuss the current state of the online far right\, and how we can fight against it. \nTheir first book\, Post Internet Far Right\, is available now from Dog Section Press. A second book\, The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right\, is coming out in March 2022. \nnetwork23.org/bristolantifascists | Bristol Antifascists on Facebook
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/what-is-the-post-internet-far-right-book-launch-and-talk/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Discussion,Talk
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SUMMARY:Daring to Hope: Talk\, Q&A\, and Book Launch with Sheilah Rowbotham
DESCRIPTION:Book Tickets\nTalk and Q&A with author and activist Sheila Rowbotham\, to launch her new book Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s. \nSheila 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 and author of Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman. \nThe book: In this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the women’s liberation movement\, left politics and the creative radical culture of a decade in which freedom and equality seemed possible. She reveals the tremendous efforts that were made to transform attitudes and feelings\, as well as daily life. After addressing the first British Women’s Liberation Conference at Ruskin College\, Oxford in 1970\, she went on to encourage night cleaners to unionise\, to campaign for nurseries and abortion rights. She played an influential role in discussions of socialist feminist ideas and her books and journalism attracted an international readership. Written with generosity and humour Daring to Hope recreates grassroots networks\, communal houses and squats\, bringing alive a shared impetus to organise collectively and to love without jealousy or domination. It conveys the shifts occurring in politics and society through kernels of personal experience. The result is a book about liberation in the widest sense.
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/daring-to-hope-book-launch-with-sheilah-rowbotham-2/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210727T203000
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SUMMARY:Daring to Hope: Book Launch with Sheilah Rowbotham
DESCRIPTION:In 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. \nAfter addressing the first Women’s Liberation Conference at Ruskin College\, Oxford\, in 1970\, she went on to encourage night cleaners to unionise\, immortalised in the film Nightcleaners\, to campaign for nurseries and abortion rights\, and to play an influential role in discussions of socialist feminist ideas. It is also an account of her attempt to live her politics: bringing to life meetings\, magazines\, child care networks\, grass roots movements\, along with communal houses and squats\, and a shared impetus to organize collectively and to love without jealousy or domination. By the middle of the decade her prolific writing – journalism and poetry as well as social history – had attracted a wide international readership. She describes the publication of Women\, Resistance and Revolution (1972)\, Hidden from History and Woman’s Consciousness\, Man’s World (1973)\, seminal works that were translated into many languages and remain in print half a century later. \nThrough this whole decade she charts the women’s liberation movement and its place within a larger politics\, including the decline of the Labour Party. As the decade ends\, with Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street\, the movement has started to fracture. Alongside others she tried to hold together the socialist feminist hopes with Beyond the Fragments. \nSheila Rowbotham\, who helped start the women’s liberation movement in Britain\, is known internationally as an historian of feminism and radical social movements. She is the author of the ground-breaking books Women\, Resistance and Revolution; Woman’s Consciousness\, Man’s World; and Hidden from History. Her later works include Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties; Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century; and the biography Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love\, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Biography. Her poetry and two plays have been published and she has written for newspapers and journals in Britain\, the US\, Italy\, Brazil\, Turkey\, Sweden and Sri Lanka. An Honorary Fellow of Manchester University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts\, she lives in Bristol. \nThis is a Bristol Transformed event.
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/daring-to-hope-book-launch-with-sheilah-rowbotham/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200423T183000
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SUMMARY:Monopsony Capitalism Book Launch with Ashok Kumar
DESCRIPTION:This 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. Focused on the garment and footwear sectors\, it introduces a universal logic that governs competition and reshapes the chain. By analysing workers’ collective action at various sites of production\, it observes how this internal logic plays out for labour who are testing the limits of the social order\, stretching it until the seams show. By examining the most valorised parts of underdeveloped sectors\, one can see where capital is going and how it is getting there. These findings contribute to ongoing efforts to establish workers’ rights in sectors plagued by poverty and powerlessness\, building fires and collapses. With this change and a capable labour movement\, there’s hope yet that workers may close the gap.
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/monopsony-capitalism-book-launch-with-ashok-kumar/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Discussion,Politics,Talk
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200210T210000
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SUMMARY:Hostile Environment Book Launch with Maya Goodfellow
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Bristol book launch of Maya Goodfellow’s ‘Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats’. \nAs 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? \nMaya Goodfellow offers a compelling answer and illuminates the dark underbelly of contemporary immigration policies. Talking to politicians\, immigration lawyers\, and immigrants themselves\, Goodfellow examines how the media and successive governments have created and fuelled anti-immigration politics over the last fifty years. Ultimately\, Hostile Environment reveals the distinct forms of racism and dehumanisation that result from these policies. Goodfellow’s book is a crucial reminder of the human cost to treating immigration as a problem. \nTickets available from Headfirst Bristol.
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/hostile-environment-book-launch-with-maya-goodfellow/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Discussion,Politics,Talk
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200130T200000
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SUMMARY:The Twittering Machine: Bristol Launch w/ Richard Seymour
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be joined by Richard Seymour to talk about their new book The Twittering Machine. \nIn 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. \nFormer social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users\, waiting for our next hit as we like\, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals\, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies\, desires and frailties into data\, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. \nThrough 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. \nTickets available from Headfirst
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/the-twittering-machine-bristol-launch-w-richard-seymour/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Politics,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200123T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200123T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T172825
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SUMMARY:Steal As Much As You Can: Bristol Launch w/ Nathalie Olah
DESCRIPTION:For many\, the 2010s have been a lost decade. \nTory 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. \nSteal 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. By rejecting the established routines of achieving prosperity – and encouraging us to steal what we can from the establishment routes along the way – it offers hope to a bright and brilliant generation whose potential has suffered under these circumstances. A generation who\, through no fault of its own\, has become increasingly frustrated by our increasingly unequal society. \nTickets available from Headfirst Bristol.
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/steal-as-much-as-you-can-bristol-launch-w-nathalie-olah/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Tour,Discussion,Politics
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191010T213000
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SUMMARY:Raise the Bar 'Spotlight' | Tom Sastry's Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Raise 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. \nSpotlight 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. \n** Arrive promptly for seats and open mic sign up ** \n£3 entry\, on the door only\, cash & card accepted.
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/raise-the-bar-spotlight-tom-sastrys-book-launch/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Performance,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190916T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190916T220000
DTSTAMP:20260409T172825
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SUMMARY:Stolen w/ Grace Blakeley // Bristol Launch
DESCRIPTION:In 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. \nThe 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. \nStolen 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. \nGrace Blakeley (New Statesman Economics Editor) will be in conversation discussing her new book. \nTickets available from Headfirst. If you can’t afford it but would like to come\, please get in touch with Bristol Transformed (details below)\, we may be able to arrange something for you.
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/stolen-w-grace-blakeley-bristol-launch/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Discussion,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190626T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190626T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T172825
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SUMMARY:Fully Automated Luxury Communism book launch with Aaron Bastani
DESCRIPTION:A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work\, scarcity and capitalism. \nIn the twenty-first century\, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation\, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment\, is instead the path to a world of liberty\, luxury and happiness—for everyone. Technological advance will reduce the value of commodities—food\, healthcare and housing—towards zero. \nImprovements in renewable energies will make fossil fuels a thing of the past. Asteroids will be mined for essential minerals. Genetic editing and synthetic biology will prolong life\, virtually eliminate disease and provide meat without animals. New horizons beckon. \nIn 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. \nAaron Bastani has become a leading figure on the new British Left in recent years\, especially with the ascent of Novara Media which has provided an influential space for left wing thought and discussion that is usually ignored and suppressed by the mainstream media. Come and hear him speak about his book\, which provides an optimistic and forward thinking program for tackling the series of crises we face and a vision for how we can move beyond the limitations of Capitalism. \nTickets are free but please book here: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/#date=2019-06-27&event_id=54960
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/fully-automated-luxury-communism-book-launch-with-aaron-bastani/
LOCATION:SPACE at PRSC\, 17-25 Jamaica St\, Bristol\, BS2 8JW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Politics
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181012T210000
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SUMMARY:John D'oh Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Bristol radical street artist John D’oh releases a fascinating new book on October 12. \nStreet 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 at more general admirers of graffiti and street art. \nJohn D’oh started to adorn the streets with art when he was a teenager in Filton\, Bristol and has developed into one of the city’s most respected artists. His work stands out for its political commentary\, humour and technical innovation. \nHe produced this book after being asked over a number of years to help students with their dissertations examining various aspects of street art and in response to interest from academics looking for behind-the-scenes insights into the art form. It can also be read as a personal\, enjoyable and fun-filled journey through the art world. \nJohn D’oh expresses informed and often controversial views on subjects including the appropriation of artworks by global companies\, the use of graffiti in marketing and the ongoing debate about exhibiting street art in museums. He also claims that street art is currently in its ‘baroque’ period and suggests where it might go next. \nStreet Art And Graffiti A Dissertation By Street Artist John D’oh – contains approximately 200 images.
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/john-doh-book-launch/
LOCATION:17-35 Jamaica Street\, Stokes Croft\, Bristol\, BS2 8JP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Exhibition
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170928T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Club and Book Launch: Politics & Protest and Naked Guide to Bristol book launch
DESCRIPTION:  \nBook Club at PRSC with Tangent Books presents \nPolitics & Protest and Naked Guide to Bristol book launch\nAuthor Q&A 7pm \nJoin 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 Bristol. \nPete Maginnis is Don Pedro. Since 2000 he has amassed a photographic collection of public expressions of protest in the form of subvertised billboards\, posters\, stickers and graffiti which give voice to various forms of protest. The third editon of his book Politics & Protest features 32 extra pages and new sections on Trump\, the 2017 general election\, Brexit\, UKIP\, Occupy and more. \nMost of the images were captured in Bristol\, as Don Pedro moved around by foot or by bike documenting images of protest whether or not they match his view of the world. \nThese expressions of protest were all placed in public view without permission – a political act in itself. \n  \n  \nRichard Jones is the co-author with Gil Gillespie\, and publisher of The Naked Guide to Bristol which was first produced in 2004. As well as featuring all of the city’s traditional attractions\, the Naked Guide is a celebration of the city’s counter-culture and features extensive sections of history and politics\, music and street art. \nThe sixth edition has been fully revised and updated with new features and listings. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/book-club-and-book-launch-politics-protest-and-naked-guide-to-bristol-book-launch/
LOCATION:17-35 Jamaica Street\, Stokes Croft\, Bristol\, BS2 8JP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170919T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170919T203000
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SUMMARY:BOOK Launch: How the establishment lost control
DESCRIPTION:“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.” \nCome and hear author and activist Chris Nineham introduce his new book – How the establishment lost control – recently published by Zero. Copies of the book will be available for sale. \nFor reviews of the book see http://www.zero-books.net/books/how-establishment-lost-control \nIn order to cover our costs we usually ask for a small donation of £2 from those able to afford it.
URL:https://prsc.org.uk/event/book-launch-how-the-establishment-lost-control/
LOCATION:17-35 Jamaica Street\, Stokes Croft\, Bristol\, BS2 8JP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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