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Repeater Books
Repeater Books is a publishing imprint based in London, founded in 2014 by Tariq Goddard and Mark Fisher, formerly the founders of radical publishers Zero Books, along with Etan Ilfeld, Tamar Shlaim, Alex Niven and Matteo Mandarini. Formation In 2014, after disagreements with their parent company John Hunt Publishing, Zero Books founders Tariq Goddard and Mark Fisher, as well as Matteo Mandarini, editor Alex Niven and publicist Tamar Shlaim, resigned, and formed the new imprint Repeater Books. In 2015, Repeater Books published its first two titles: ''The Isle of Minimus'', an experimental novel by M. K. L. Murphy; and ''Lean Out'', a feminist polemic by the journalist Dawn Foster. They have since published books by Mark Fisher, David Stubbs, Graham Harman, Mat Osman, Steven Shaviro, Leila Taylor, Claire Cronin, and Eugene Thacker, amongst others. Watkins Media Repeater Books is an imprint within Watkins Media, a publishing organisation owned by entrepreneur Etan Ilfel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watkins Media
Watkins Books is London's oldest esoteric bookshop. It specialises in esotericism, mysticism, occultism, oriental religion and contemporary spirituality. The book store was established by John M. Watkins, a friend of Madame Blavatsky, in 1897 at 26 Charing Cross. John Watkins had already been selling books via a catalogue which he began publishing in March 1893. The first biography of Aleister Crowley recounts a story of Crowley making all of the books in Watkins magically disappear and reappear. Geoffrey Watkins (1896–1981) owned and managed the store after his father. He was also an author and publisher, with notable books including first publishing Carl Gustav Jung Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philo ...'s 1925 edition of '' Septem Sermones ad Mortuos''. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Shaviro
Steven Shaviro (; born April 3, 1954) is an American academic, philosopher and cultural critic whose areas of interest include film theory, time, science fiction, panpsychism, capitalism, affect and subjectivity. He earned a PhD from Yale in 1981, and teaches Film, Culture and English, first at the University of Washington, and now at Wayne State University. Work His most widely read book is ''Doom Patrols'', a "theoretical fiction" that outlines the state of postmodernism during the early 1990s, using poetic language, personal anecdotes, and creative prose. He has also written extensively about music videos as an artform. Shaviro has written a book about film theory, ''The Cinematic Body'', which according to the preface is "about postmodernism, the politics of human bodies, constructions of masculinity, and the aesthetics of masochism." It also examines Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection and the dominance of Lacanian tropes in contemporary academic film theory. According to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Hatherley
Owen Hatherley (born 24 July 1981 in Southampton, England) is a British writer and journalist based in London who writes primarily on architecture, politics and culture. Early life Hatherley was born in Southampton in 1981, growing up in a 1930s suburban estate. He describes his parents as " trots" who were members of Militant. At the age of 12, he moved to the Flowers Estate in Bassett Green, which he disliked, later saying: "I couldn't wait to get out of the sodding place, and the pitched roofs and front gardens didn’t exactly relieve the unpleasantness." When he was 16, he read ''England’s Dreaming'' by Jon Savage, which inspired him to move to London to study. He studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, graduating in 2001. He then received a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London in 2011. His supervisor was Esther Leslie. Writing Hatherley started a blog, ''The Measures Taken'', in 2005. He would go on to publish pieces elsewhere, including articles for ''Social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliane Glaser
Eliane Glaser is an English writer, lecturer, radio producer and broadcaster. Early life and media career Glaser was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating from Oxford University with a First Class degree in English literature in 1995, before gaining her PhD in early modern literature in 2000 at Birkbeck, University of London. Glaser has written for the ''Independent'', ''New Statesman'', and the '' London Review of Books'', and is a contributor to ''The Guardian'', where she has written articles on contemporary propaganda, fake authenticity, Astroturf politics, cyber-utopianism, and the ideology of natural childbirth. Glaser is a regular contributor to, producer of, and sometime presenter for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4: Glaser has appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss conspiracy, ideology and bureaucracy, and wrote and presented an edition of BBC Radio 4's Four Thought in defence of authority. Academic work Glaser's work often focuses on contemporary cult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher (11 July 1968 – 13 January 2017), also known under his blogging alias k-punk, was an English writer, music critic, political and cultural theorist, philosopher, and teacher based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. He initially achieved acclaim for his blogging as k-punk in the early 2000s, and was known for his writing on radical politics, music, and popular culture. Fisher published several books, including the unexpected success '' Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?'' (2009), and contributed to publications such as ''The Wire'', ''Fact'', ''New Statesman'' and ''Sight & Sound''. He was also the co-founder of Zero Books, and later Repeater Books. He died by suicide in January 2017, shortly before the publication of ''The Weird and the Eerie'' (2017). Early life and education Fisher was born in Leicester and raised in Loughborough to working-class, conservative parents; his father was an engineer and his mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kodwo Eshun
Kodwo Eshun (born 1967) is a British -Ghanaian writer, theorist and filmmaker. He is perhaps best known for his 1998 book ''More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction'' and his association with the art collective The Otolith Group. He currently teaches on the MA in Contemporary Art Theory in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and at CCC Research Master Program of the Visual Arts Department at HEAD (Geneva School of Art and Design). Early life and education Kodwo Eshun was born and raised in the far northern suburbs of London. His father was a prominent diplomat to the United Kingdom. His family is of the Fante people of Ghana, and his younger brother is the author and journalist Ekow Eshun. As a youth, Eshun undertook a study of comic books, J. G. Ballard, and rock music. According to his brother, Eshun was heavily disturbed and influenced by the 1979 coup of Ghana carried out by J. J. Rawlings. He studied English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Cruz
Cynthia Cruz is a contemporary American poet living in Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of six published poetry collections, and two works of cultural criticism. She currently teaches classes in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University. Her seventh collection of poems, Hotel Oblivion, is forthcoming in 2022. Life Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, Cruz grew up in Germany and in northern California. She earned her B.A. at Mills College. She earned her M.F.A. at Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA in Art Writing & Criticism at the School of Visual Arts and an MA in German Language and Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Cruz is currently pursuing her PhD in Philosophy at the European Graduate School. Her research centers on Hegel. She currently lives in Brooklyn and in Berlin. She teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University. Work Her first collection of poems, ''Ruin,'' was published by Alice James Books in 2006, and reviewed by ''The New York Times ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Butt
Gavin Butt (born 1967) is a writer and academic based in Brighton, UK Overview Gavin Butt is a transdisciplinary scholar working across the areas of performance studies, queer studies, visual culture, and popular music. He received his PhD from the University of Leeds in 1998 with the dissertation ''Men on the Threshold: The Making and Unmaking of the Sexual Subject in American Art 1948-1965'', later revised and published in 2005 under the title ''Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World 1948-1963'' by Duke University Press. In 2004 Butt edited the much praised anthology ''After Criticism - New Approaches to Art and Performance''. Here, as in his more recent work on cultural seriousness, he argues for the importance of the paradoxical: criticism that works against the doxa of received wisdom. Butt has written extensively on artists such as Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Joe Brainard, Jasper Johns, as well as performance artists such as Kiki and Herb, Oreet Ash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Blakeley
Grace Blakeley (born 26 June 1993) is an English economics and politics commentator, columnist, journalist and author. She is a staff writer for ''Tribune'' and panelist on TalkTV. She was previously the economics commentator of the ''New Statesman'' and has contributed to Novara Media. Early life Blakeley was born in Basingstoke in Hampshire. She is half Welsh on her father's side. She was privately educated at Lord Wandsworth College, and later attended the Sixth Form College, Farnborough. She studied philosophy, politics and economics at St Peter's College, Oxford, graduating with a first class honours degree. Blakeley then obtained a master's degree in African studies at St Antony's College, Oxford. After graduating, she worked as a management consultant for KPMG in their Public Sector and Healthcare Practice division. Blakeley then worked as a research fellow for a year at the left-wing think tank, Institute for Public Policy Research in Manchester, specialising in regiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monster Bobby
Monster Bobby (born Robert William Barry, 1981) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the creator of and guitarist for the indie pop girl group The Pipettes. Overview In 2001, when Monster Bobby was just Bobby Barry, he starred in ''Weirdsister College'', the spin-off series of ''The Worst Witch'', in which he played the mysterious Nick Hobbes. Prior to that he starred in the film '' New Year's Day'' as Stephen, written by Ralph Brown and directed by Suri Krushnamma and released in 2001. Monster Bobby is most well known as being guitarist for The Cassette(s), The Pipettes' all-male backing band. He is frequently credited by The Pipettes both with developing the idea of a modern girl group, and with introducing the members of The Pipettes to one another. He has been described as the group's "Svengali", but rejects any notion of "individual genius" in his role with The Pipettes, stating that "most of the most interesting music is made in such a collective fashion that it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tristam Adams
Tristan (Latin/ Brythonic: ''Drustanus''; cy, Trystan), also known as Tristram or Tristain and similar names, is the hero of the legend of Tristan and Iseult. In the legend, he is tasked with escorting the Irish princess Iseult to wed Tristan's uncle, King Mark of Cornwall. Tristan and Iseult accidentally drink a love potion during the journey and fall in love, beginning an adulterous relationship that eventually leads to Tristan's banishment and death. The character's first recorded appearance is in retellings of British mythology from the 12th century by Thomas of Britain and Gottfried von Strassburg, and later in the Prose ''Tristan''. He is featured in Arthurian legends, including the seminal text '' Le Morte d'Arthur'', as a skilled knight and a friend of Lancelot. The historical roots of Tristan are unclear; his association with Cornwall may originate from the Tristan Stone, a 6th-century granite pillar in Cornwall inscribed with the name ''Drustanus'' (a varia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watkins Books
Watkins Books is London's oldest esoteric bookshop. It specialises in esotericism, mysticism, occultism, oriental religion and contemporary spirituality. The book store was established by John M. Watkins, a friend of Madame Blavatsky, in 1897 at 26 Charing Cross. John Watkins had already been selling books via a catalogue which he began publishing in March 1893. The first biography of Aleister Crowley recounts a story of Crowley making all of the books in Watkins magically disappear and reappear. Geoffrey Watkins (1896–1981) owned and managed the store after his father. He was also an author and publisher, with notable books including first publishing Carl Gustav Jung Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philo ...'s 1925 edition of '' Septem Sermones ad Mortuos''. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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