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Heartfield in the news ... and on the blogs Diary 31 Jan., my essay 'Our Exurban Future' at NewGeography 17 Jan., defending Iris Robinson in Forth 11 Jan., my background article on Yemen for Spiked 10 Jan., Julia Svetlichnaja and my article on Russia's 'Sovereign Democracy' idea in the January Radical Philosophy 8 Jan., 2010, A History of Middle Class Dystopias for Forth 30 Dec., My review of the Mute anthology Proud to be Flesh 7 Dec., my article 'Contracting out Authority', in Critique, Vol 37:4, p 683- 690 3 Dec., my article on the New Left Review in Forth 25 Nov., launch of Jon Pugh's What is Radical Politics 9 Nov., my article 'Demobilising the Nation' in International Politics, Nov 2009 30 Oct, some refs to 'State Capitalism in Britain' here, here and here, and another version here 5 Oct. I am in the excellent new Irish journal Forth, on the EU referendum - quoted in Monde Diplomatique 2 Oct., my talk in San Diego on the Green Belt is on film 25 Sept, my 'State Capitalism', now in Mute's print edition 1 September in Art Review 15 July, On Fiji: 'Cloud Coup-Coup Land' for Arena Magazine 25 June, talking to teaching union leaders at SCETT 24 June State Capitalism in Britain, for Mute 19 June, on Rogers vs Charles at newgeography.com 30 May, my review of Militant Modernism in Art Review 26 May, my article 'Turbulent Pacific' in Australia's Arena Journal 24 May, me on Heidgger and Fascism at Mute 15 May, my article 'Der Niedergang der Linken' in Novo Litvinenko press conference found this on 14 May 24 April, in the Evening Standard on Ballard v. Ackroyd; lunch with Diane Atkinson, her Elsie and Mairi go to War is out soon 20 Apr., my obituary of J.G. Ballard 8 Apr., replying to Perry Anderson in LRB on Italy 27 Mar., My debate on climate change at the investment summit Chairing Munira Mirza, the Mayor's cultural advisor at the London South Bank University, 24 Feb 09 19 Feb, protesting for the Third Runway, with the Modern Movement 11 Feb. on Council Housing plans 5 Feb. my review of Nick Cohen's What's Left? 26 Jan. my article against the Dale Farm evictions 12 Dec. my review of feminist memoirs by Lyn Segal, Michele Roberts and Janet Street Porter in the London Literary Journal 10 Dec. on the economy for the Chicago left journal Platypus 5 Dec., my review of The Devil's Whore and I am a footnote in New Left Review 4 Dec., I am reviewed in that august Marxist journal, the Socialist Standard 21 Nov., J. Svetlichnaja and my article on FSB persecution of Chechens in Moscow, based on interviews with Alexander Litvinenko, published in Critique, Dec. 08 15 Nov., Nick Bell, who did the Protect the Human campaign for Amnesty International, says I am one of the most interesting commentators on design (in Influences, Gerber and Lutz, 2006) Previous entries
WORLD WAR AS CLASS WAR, by James Heartfield READ: 'The War in Europe: What Really Happened?' 'The Battle of the Books', at Spiked-online GREEN CAPITALISM: Manufacturing Scarcity in an Age of Abundance by James Heartfield, £7.50, plus £1 p&p by Paypal Read an excerpt Let's Build! Why we need five million homes in the next 10 years is published by Audacity on 23 September 2006 £17.50, including postage, via PayPal Articles on Let's Build Gordon Brown's Eco Towns Con Spiked, 7 April '08 Farewell to the City a paper to the Rural Futures Conference, published in Spiked 4 April 2006...also available in Italian Interdependent we stand, divided we fall, 'Herbert Girardet and the plastic concept of sustainability' in Rising East online, January 2006 'Londonostalgia', Blueprint, September 2004. Who's afraid of the Thames Gateway? Spiked 6 January 2006 City, suburbs and snobs Spiked 30 November 2005 The government must stop finding reasons not to build new homes Guardian 21 February 2005 Confusing signals in the housing debate and New communities, same old problems, Times Educational Supplement, 14 January 2005 All talk and no bricks, Spiked, 26 January 2005 Concrete over the Countryside, Blueprint, January 2002	Writer and lecturer James Heartfield is a director of the development think-tank, *audacity. He lives in north London with his wife and two daughters E-mail heartfield@blueyonder.co.uk 'Those trying to get an intellectual handle on our dumbed-down society could start with James Heartfield's The 'Death of the Subject' Explained' New Statesman* £15.00 by PayPal Read 'Postmodernism and the Subject', from the Chapter One, and Chapter 6, 'Algeria and the Defeat of French Humanism' 'This absolutely fascinating book', Raymond Tallis 'Striking and original', Terry Eagleton Order The 'Death of the Subject' Explained Review in Spiked-online Read THE CREATIVITY GAP £7.50 by Paypal James Heartfield on the 'creative industries': Gordon Brown at NESTA for Mute and Spiked; Creative London for Rising East Online;Escape the Creative Ghetto, with Chris Powell at NESTA; Cox Report: creative accounting for Spiked; Quoted in Larry Elliott's Better design requires better Products in the Guardian; 'Winning the European Capital of Culture bid will not re-build Liverpool's industry' Liverpool Daily Post; Chris Smith's Creative Accounting for the Guardian On Channel 4 News, 26 Nov. 2006 Clare Short, Will Hutton, Doreen Massey, Zygmunt Bauman, Paul Kingsnorth, James Heartfield and many more in Jon Pugh's new book. Buy it here.

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Heartfield in the news ... and on the blogs
Diary
31 Jan., my essay 'Our Exurban Future' at NewGeography
17 Jan., defending Iris Robinson in Forth
11 Jan., my background article on Yemen for Spiked
10 Jan., Julia Svetlichnaja and my article on Russia's 'Sovereign Democracy' idea in the January Radical Philosophy
8 Jan., 2010, A History of Middle Class Dystopias for Forth
30 Dec., My review of the Mute anthology Proud to be Flesh
7 Dec., my article 'Contracting out Authority', in Critique, Vol 37:4, p 683- 690
3 Dec., my article on the New Left Review in Forth
25 Nov., launch of Jon Pugh's What is Radical Politics
9 Nov., my article 'Demobilising the Nation' in International Politics, Nov 2009
30 Oct, some refs to 'State Capitalism in Britain' here, here and here, and another version here
5 Oct. I am in the excellent new Irish journal Forth, on the EU referendum - quoted in Monde Diplomatique
2 Oct., my talk in San Diego on the Green Belt is on film
25 Sept, my 'State Capitalism', now in Mute's print edition
1 September in Art Review
15 July, On Fiji: 'Cloud Coup-Coup Land' for Arena Magazine
25 June, talking to teaching union leaders at SCETT

24 June State Capitalism in Britain, for Mute
19 June, on Rogers vs Charles at newgeography.com
30 May, my review of Militant Modernism in Art Review
26 May, my article 'Turbulent Pacific' in Australia's Arena Journal
24 May, me on Heidgger and Fascism at Mute
15 May, my article 'Der Niedergang der Linken' in Novo

Litvinenko press conference found this on 14 May
24 April, in the Evening Standard on Ballard v. Ackroyd; lunch with Diane Atkinson, her Elsie and Mairi go to War is out soon
20 Apr., my obituary of J.G. Ballard
8 Apr., replying to Perry Anderson in LRB on Italy
27 Mar., My debate on climate change at the investment summit

Chairing Munira Mirza, the Mayor's cultural advisor at the London South Bank University, 24 Feb 09

19 Feb, protesting for the Third Runway, with the Modern Movement
11 Feb. on Council Housing plans
5 Feb. my review of Nick Cohen's What's Left?
26 Jan. my article against the Dale Farm evictions
12 Dec. my review of feminist memoirs by Lyn Segal, Michele Roberts and Janet Street Porter in the London Literary Journal
10 Dec. on the economy for the Chicago left journal Platypus
5 Dec., my review of The Devil's Whore and I am a footnote in New Left Review
4 Dec., I am reviewed in that august Marxist journal, the Socialist Standard
21 Nov., J. Svetlichnaja and my article on FSB persecution of Chechens in Moscow, based on interviews with Alexander Litvinenko, published in Critique, Dec. 08
15 Nov., Nick Bell, who did the Protect the Human campaign for Amnesty International, says I am one of the most interesting commentators on design (in Influences, Gerber and Lutz, 2006)

Previous entries

WORLD WAR AS CLASS WAR, by James Heartfield

READ: 'The War in Europe: What Really Happened?'
'The Battle of the Books', at Spiked-online

GREEN CAPITALISM: Manufacturing Scarcity in an Age of Abundance
by James Heartfield,
£7.50, plus £1 p&p
by Paypal

Read an excerpt

Let's Build!
Why we need five million homes in the next 10 years
is published by Audacity on 23 September 2006
£17.50, including postage, via PayPal

Articles on Let's Build
Gordon Brown's Eco Towns Con Spiked, 7 April '08
Farewell to the City a paper to the Rural Futures Conference, published in Spiked 4 April 2006...also available in Italian
Interdependent we stand, divided we fall,
'Herbert Girardet and the plastic concept of sustainability' in Rising East online, January 2006
'Londonostalgia', Blueprint, September 2004.
Who's afraid of the Thames Gateway?
Spiked 6 January 2006
City, suburbs and snobs
Spiked 30 November 2005
The government must stop finding reasons not to build new homes Guardian 21 February 2005
Confusing signals in the housing debate and New communities, same old problems, Times Educational Supplement, 14 January 2005
All talk and no bricks, Spiked, 26 January 2005
Concrete over the Countryside, Blueprint, January 2002

Writer and lecturer James Heartfield is a director of the development think-tank, audacity. He lives in north London with his wife and two daughters
E-mail heartfield@blueyonder.co.uk

'Those trying to get an intellectual handle on our dumbed-down society could start with James Heartfield's The 'Death of the Subject' Explained' New Statesman

£15.00 by PayPal

Read 'Postmodernism and the Subject', from the Chapter One, and Chapter 6, 'Algeria and the Defeat of French Humanism'

'This absolutely fascinating book', Raymond Tallis
'Striking and original', Terry Eagleton

Order The 'Death of the Subject' Explained
Review in Spiked-online

Read THE CREATIVITY GAP
£7.50 by Paypal

James Heartfield on the 'creative industries':
Gordon Brown at NESTA for Mute and Spiked;
Creative London for Rising East Online;Escape the Creative Ghetto, with Chris Powell at NESTA;
Cox Report: creative accounting for Spiked;
Quoted in Larry Elliott's Better design requires better Products in the Guardian;
'Winning the European Capital of Culture bid will not re-build Liverpool's industry' Liverpool Daily Post; Chris Smith's Creative Accounting for the Guardian

On Channel 4 News, 26 Nov. 2006

Clare Short, Will Hutton, Doreen Massey, Zygmunt Bauman, Paul Kingsnorth, James Heartfield and many more in Jon Pugh's new book. Buy it here.

Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age,
A collection edited by James Heartfield and Ian Abley
reviewed in the Natfhe Journal

£17.50 by PayPal

Great Expectations
The creative industries in the New Economy
'an excellent pamphlet by James Heartfield' Guardian
Reviewed in the New Statesman
£7.50 by PayPal

Need and Desire
in the Postmaterial Economy

£9.00 by Paypal

Browse
Intellectual currents of
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Informative introductory essays on positivism, pragmatism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, phenomenology, existentialism, and postmodernism. Includes brief biographies and bibliographies of key philosophers.' Wrote Britannica.com, who listed it amongst 'The Web's Best Sites' in the category 'Philosophy : Contemporary Ideas'.

Papers

Europe, Russia and the ‘non-historic peoples' a paper to the Standing Group on International Relations, Turin, 13th September
Who is the Town and the Countryside for?, All Planned Out: the Worldwide Impact of the TCPA, Building Centre, 19 May 2007
Interviewing Litvinenko scholarship and the New Cold War, Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster University, 30 January 2007
Sprawl: the end of the town-country divide, Democracy Club, 14 November 2006
Superbia - in defence of the Suburbs, Kingston University Suburban Studies Dayschool, September 2006
Can creativity save the British Economy?, Design Council, 21 September 2005

Essays

Creative London: an in-depth report on the GLA's creative industries, for Rising East Online
China's Comprador Capitalism is Coming Home, Review of Radical Political Economy, Vol. 37, No. 2, (2005)
Mao: the Untold Story, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, reviewed. More from Spiked
The Battle of the Books: Revising the History of the Second World War Another Copy
Zombie anti-imperialists vs the 'Empire' Today's anti-war movement is motivated more by romanticism than a serious critique of imperialism, Spiked, 1 September 2004. Another copy. In German
'Londonostalgia', Blueprint, September 2004. London's self-image is steeped in nostalgia
'Branding over the cracks', Critique 35, June 2004 HTML version
'Capitalism and anti-Capitalism', interventions, Vol. 5 (2), 2003
'You are not a White Woman!'- Apolosi Nawai, the Fiji Produce Agency and the Trial of Stella Spencer in Fiji, 1915 scandal and rebellion in colonial Fiji, in the Journal of Pacific History, Volume 38, Number 1 / June 2003
'The economy of time', Cultural Trends 43&44
Hegel Dispirited the reification of the Other in Kojève, DeBeauvoir and Sartre, for Liverpool's Static arts organisation
'The Dark Races Against the Light'- Official Reaction to the 1959 Fiji Riots Journal of Pacific History, Volume 37, Number 1/June 01, 2002.
There is No Masculinity Crisis in Genders Online Journal
'Algeria and the Defeat of French Humanism', Chapter six of The 'Death of the Subject' Explained, reproduced on 'Marxists.org'
Ulrich Beck, Brave New World of Work reviewed, Head and Hand, Autumn 2001
A critique of Teodor Shanin's The Russian Road
Michel Chossudovsky, The Globalisation of Poverty reviewed, Review of Radical Political Economy, Spring 2001
'The Politics of Food: Two cheers for Agri-business', Review of Radical Political Economy, June 2000
'USA under Foreign Occupation', in Kiddrie and Wedlock (eds) The Tree of Liberty, Vol.2, John Hopkins UP, 1998, p 751

Articles

'Overthrowing the father' my review of Bettina Aptheker's memoirs is published by Spiked. More from Spiked.
Humanitarian interventionists dig in In his new book Anti-Totalitarianism, Oliver Kamm makes a shrill and inconsistent defence of the Iraq war.
From unrest to uncertainty Angolan schoolchildren in Britain, Times Educational Supplement, 4 March 2005. More from TES
The government must stop finding reasons not to build new homes Guardian 21 February 2005
Confusing signals in the housing debate and New communities, same old problems, Times Educational Supplement, 14 January 2005
All talk and no bricks, Spiked, 26 January 2005
Pitting parent against parent The case against the Parental Separation Bill, Spiked-online, 21 January 2005.
Red Lorry hitching a lorry ride with Andrew Cross to DIRFT, Britain’s unknown commercial capital in the heart of Middle England, Blueprint, October 2004
People and Places: A 2001 Census atlas of the UK on Audacity.org - more on Audacity
Building School Success de Rijke, Marsh and Morgan's re-modelling of Kingsdale School, Prospect (Scotland) October 2004
'Fixing a hole' - Is school renovation a substitute for teaching? Times Educational Supplement, 7 May 2004
Bonfire of the investment opportunities What were so many contemporary artworks doing in a warehouse in Leyton? in Spiked 28 May 2004.
Therapy Culture reviewed
The Timid Corporation reviewed
A Servants' Etiquette guide for Channel Four
Dangerous Liaisons... The history of teacher-student relations since Socrates corrupted the youth of Athens, TES 10 January 2003
The Rise of French Diplomacy Alternet.org, November 2002
BBC Plays Judge and Executioner Alternet.org, July 2002
Let's Build IntheSticks, January 2002
Nowhere near Enough Blueprint, September 2002
Concrete over the countryside, Blueprint, January 2002
'In Defence of Real Rights', Revolution August 2000
Culture Vultures The DTI's knowledge economy criticised.
'Elvis Lives in the Irish Trade Data', a review of Denis O'Hearn's Celtic Tiger
Smacking Parents an interview with lawyer Ruby Harrold-Claesson, on the repressive consequences of Sweden's anti-smacking laws.
United by a common hatred Nail bombs in Brixton and Brick Lane in The Times
The New 'Socialism of Fools' A Critique of Environmentalism.
Smith's task force for a spot of creative accounting Cultural economics for the Guardian
War Crime Trials in The Times
Chris Woodhead Affair in The Times
Bombing Lockerbie questioning the case against al-Megrahi. Another copy
Civil liberties and the Sex Offenders' Register
Abortion: Whose Rights? a talk for the pro-choice forum

In German

Anti-imperialistische Zombies im Kampf gegen das Empire
Politik, die der Korruption die Grube gräbt, fällt selbst hinein
Grüne Rhetorik macht Ackerland platt
Der Holocaust als Totschlagargument

Articles on the Spiked-online website

Articles in LM (1992-1999)

Heartfield's other works include

'The limits of social construction theory' in Confrontation, Vol II, No. I, A Moral Impasse: The End of Capitalist Triumphalism, Junius, 1996
'Marxism and social construction' in Marxism, Mysticism and Modern Theory, ed S Wolton, Macmillan, 1996
'Introduction' to State and Revolution, by VI Lenin, Junius, 1995

References to Heartfield's work in print