Oh how outraged everyone is getting over the bean spilling going on at the Leveson Enquiry.
Yet looking at phone hacking as a morality tale masks the real background story. As the enquiry is revealing, phone …

For those in and around London next week, you may be interested in a forthcoming event on documentary practices from India, including screenings, conversations and discussions on the theory and practice of selected films and …

Although ignorance can be laughable, it has a frightening role in society.

Yesterday I went to my first protest in London. What I saw there shocked me, and not because of the violence that the press is so hyper to write about, where the focus of attention …

To Document has been one of man’s prime ambitions, some people argue early cavemen paintings were based on such inferences. If they were true or not we simply cannot say. With the introduction of …

Came across this very interesting map of Europe…. after seeing this can we still talk about “European identity”?

The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, and Bernard Kouchner, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of France, made the following statement on 20 October 2010 concerning Canadian-Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan, who …

So, after a long summer in which Project Carousel has been laying dormant, a new academic year has started. A new year with a new crop of students, untainted by essay deadlines, Deleuze and late nights in the junior common room and with new ideas ready to be debated.

6 venues, 127 films, Cannes 09 prize winners look set to take the Sixth London Kurdish Film Festival to new heights
For the first time the London Kurdish Film Festival takes place in six venues across London: RichMix, …

“A building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by people. A symbol, in and of itself, is powerless, but with enough people behind it, blowing up a building can change the world,” he says in the movie. If perhaps the rest of the time, the government is depicted as evil and V as inherently well-intentioned, in this moment he admits that what he is doing is pure myth.

Should the media be an influence on the public? How democratic can that be?

Or perhaps, we should word it the other way around, make the issue more “free market.” Should the public let the media influence them? One argument is that journalists are supposed to be experts in their respective beats and so, should be able to inform our decision-making.

But there is a thin line between informing and shaping.

The article below originally appeared on Chowraha – Crossroads
A piece on today’s Metro, a newspaper read by at least 2 million people in the UK everyday, caught my instant attention. At first I found it …

Weeks ago one of my *fellow anarchists* (irony added) showed me an ad ordered by the Metropolitan Police and published on one of those free newspapers handed out at any corner of London. It stated …

Being “detained” at a peaceful demonstration last night (April 1) was on the edge of being extremely uneasy and beautifully fun. 

The Climate Camp was set up on the block of Bishops Gate where the European …

I was browsing one of my favorite blogs by Sean Jacobs and came across this commercial. I found it disturbing and in need of no comment. Then, I started reading through the lists of comments that other youtube viewers had added. People obviously feel very emotional about the commercial, but most seem to think it is racist against white people. (I never quite understood being racist against white people . . .but I guess the forced brevity of the youtube comment doesn’t leave enough room for that much needed explanation).

Then I come across this comment:

I’m adding some of the photos here taken from the G20 protests. The FLICKR gallery will be updated as soon as I get some more done – these are now the first experiments done today to be thrown into the Carousel! mix. A theoretico-visual style I am developing that eventually (when there is time) I shall develop into a series of mixed media paintings. One day, I shall hopefully also write a more thought-out piece on what goes on behind the screen to get these photos (or mixules as I call them) done. But until then, enjoy! And as always, comments / criticism / songs of praise welcome (the FLICKR gallery can be seen full screen for better viewing).

For everybody who has been studying social movements and independent media in the numerous text books during this term (and I’ve talked to quite a few), this week should be an interesting time to see them taking place in practice. So I recommend you – if for no other reason than curiosity and “research” – to brave the cold and see what is happening on the streets. Social movements, remember, do not happen in libraries, so this provides an excellent opportunity to see what inspired many of the articles that we have read throughout the term.

Having myself covered some of the earlier anti-globalization protests as a student / freelance reporter, this is a rather interesting time as the post-911 anti-terrorism paranoia has now subsided and there is a new energy again that seemed to have been gone for 8 years or so. There is a sense that a shift has happened again …

Xurxo González Rodríguez, of the Galician Audiovisual Agency provides us with an overview of Galician cinema and the role of the agency in promoting local production.

We have been having very interesting discussions around the politics of video games in our Critical Media and Cultural Studies class. These have been mostly around alternative video games (activist, Middle East, around the Palestine conflict) so I thought this would be a rather interesting follow up to the previous post HERE.

But first, a question: would you trust these people to save the world?

I recently attended a charity dance show organised by Queen Mary’s – one of the universities of London. I have been too many similar shows during my time as an undergraduate at King’s College London. However, this has been the first time I have seen traditional Kathak being performed to beat boxing. I am so used to seeing “western” dance moves being choreographed to Indian (Hindi) music; this may be due in part to the fact that lyrics incorporating English are becoming frequently used in both Bollywood songs and commercial released songs. So to see the reverse was a bit if a shock!