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Heartfield in the news ... and on the blogs Diary 24 April, debating the CPRE in Bristol 10 April 'Manufactured Scarcity' in Mute 7 April Gordon Brown's Eco Towns Con 4 April, my review of Sennett's The Craftsman is in Blueprint 31 March, Green Capitalism reviewed in Fund Strategy 28 March, I am in Dagbladet Information, on Green Capitalism 23 March, on Breakfast TV 22 March, my review of Charles Leadbeater's We-Think in the ArtReview and my letter about Punk is in the Guardian 13 March, Brighton book launch - here's Sean Bell's write up 11 March, London book launch (more pics) 10 March, Spiked's letters on Green Capitalism 4 March, Phil Cunliffe bigs up Green Capitalism 1 March, Frank Furedi takes issue with Green Capitalism 26 Feb., 7.30 talking in Manchester on planning 23 Feb., I am in the new Rising East collection 28 Jan., my obituary of Indonesia's Suharto 25 Jan., my review of Lucy Robinson's Gay men and the Left 7 Jan. my article on Xmas sales and green snobs 2 Jan. 2008, Amazingly, the bumpkins at Arseposten have written to University of Westminster to get them to remove my attack on them, here. 27 Dec., on Putin's Time 'man of the year' award 21 Dec., a book on The End of Politics reviewed, and an obituary of Dave Hallsworth 19 Dec., my Grossman review in German 18 Dec., my article Eco-Imperialism at Bali on Spiked 14 Dec., Julie Hearn's excellent paper 'African NGOs, the new compradors' arrives 13 Dec. Graham Hitchen's seminar on Alan Freeman's Creative Industries paper; then CSD's Xmas party with Amanda, Dave, Julia and Tara (more pics) 6 Dec., launch for not just one but two excellent books by Phil Hammond pics 3 Dec., my 'Cornucopian Manifesto' is in J.J. Charlesworth's Fusion Now for Rokeby Gallery 1 Dec., on art investment for the Art Review 15 Nov., reviewing Benno Teschke's book on Marx and Sovereignty for Critique, and on Orwell et al for Literary London 14 Nov., speaking at the Soho theatre on Creative hype Previous entries
OUT NOW 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, Plymouth, 7 April 2006 'Suburbanisation, or more precisely dispersed living, is the future. Urbanisation is the past.' published in Spiked 4 April 2006...also available in Italian Interdependent we stand, divided we fall, a critique of the New Economics Foundation's UK Interdependence Report 'Herbert Girardet and the plastic concept of sustainability' in Rising East online, January 2006 'Londonostalgia', Blueprint, September 2004. London's self-image is steeped in nostalgia Who's afraid of the Thames Gateway? Why government proposals to build 200,000 new homes in London and Kent are causing a stink in certain circles. Spiked 6 January 2006 City, suburbs and snobs Richard Rogers' warnings about middle-class flight to the countryside are wide of the mark. 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 Cox Review: Escape the Creative Ghetto, with Chris Powell at NESTA; spiked-culture \| Article \| Cox Report: creative accounting; Guardian Unlimited \| Columnists \| Better design requires better ...; 'Winning the European Capital of Culture bid will not re-build Liverpool's industry' Liverpool Daily Post On Channel 4 News, 26 Nov. 2006 READ: 'The War in Europe: What Really Happened?' 'The Battle of the Books', at Spiked-online Jung Chang and Jon Halliday have fallen out of love with Chairman Mao. Why? Mao: The Untold Story, reviewed.

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Heartfield in the news ... and on the blogs
Diary

24 April, debating the CPRE in Bristol
10 April 'Manufactured Scarcity' in Mute
7 April Gordon Brown's Eco Towns Con
4 April, my review of Sennett's The Craftsman is in Blueprint
31 March, Green Capitalism reviewed in Fund Strategy
28 March, I am in Dagbladet Information, on Green Capitalism

23 March, on Breakfast TV
22 March, my review of Charles Leadbeater's We-Think in the ArtReview and my letter about Punk is in the Guardian
13 March, Brighton book launch - here's Sean Bell's write up
11 March, London book launch (more pics)

10 March, Spiked's letters on Green Capitalism
4 March, Phil Cunliffe bigs up Green Capitalism
1 March, Frank Furedi takes issue with Green Capitalism
26 Feb., 7.30 talking in Manchester on planning
23 Feb., I am in the new Rising East collection
28 Jan., my obituary of Indonesia's Suharto
25 Jan., my review of Lucy Robinson's Gay men and the Left
7 Jan. my article on Xmas sales and green snobs
2 Jan. 2008, Amazingly, the bumpkins at Arseposten have written to University of Westminster to get them to remove my attack on them, here.
27 Dec., on Putin's Time 'man of the year' award
21 Dec., a book on The End of Politics reviewed, and an obituary of Dave Hallsworth
19 Dec., my Grossman review in German
18 Dec., my article Eco-Imperialism at Bali on Spiked
14 Dec., Julie Hearn's excellent paper 'African NGOs, the new compradors' arrives
13 Dec. Graham Hitchen's seminar on Alan Freeman's Creative Industries paper; then CSD's Xmas party with Amanda, Dave, Julia and Tara (more pics)

6 Dec., launch for not just one but two excellent books by Phil Hammond pics
3 Dec., my 'Cornucopian Manifesto' is in J.J. Charlesworth's Fusion Now for Rokeby Gallery
1 Dec., on art investment for the Art Review
15 Nov., reviewing Benno Teschke's book on Marx and Sovereignty for Critique, and on Orwell et al for Literary London

14 Nov., speaking at the Soho theatre on Creative hype

Previous entries

OUT NOW
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, Plymouth, 7 April 2006 'Suburbanisation, or more precisely dispersed living, is the future. Urbanisation is the past.' published in Spiked 4 April 2006...also available in Italian
Interdependent we stand, divided we fall, a critique of the New Economics Foundation's UK Interdependence Report
'Herbert Girardet and the plastic concept of sustainability' in Rising East online, January 2006
'Londonostalgia', Blueprint, September 2004. London's self-image is steeped in nostalgia
Who's afraid of the Thames Gateway?
Why government proposals to build 200,000 new homes in London and Kent are causing a stink in certain circles. Spiked 6 January 2006
City, suburbs and snobs
Richard Rogers' warnings about middle-class flight to the countryside are wide of the mark. 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 Cox Review:
Escape the Creative Ghetto, with Chris Powell at NESTA;
spiked-culture | Article | Cox Report: creative accounting;
Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | Better design requires better ...;
'Winning the European Capital of Culture bid will not re-build Liverpool's industry' Liverpool Daily Post

On Channel 4 News, 26 Nov. 2006

READ: 'The War in Europe: What Really Happened?'

'The Battle of the Books', at Spiked-online

Jung Chang and Jon Halliday have fallen out of love with Chairman Mao. Why?
Mao: The Untold Story, reviewed.

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

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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 no 6, 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