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Variant,  issue 37, Spring / Summer 2010
http://www.variant.org.uk
...the free, independent, arts magazine. In-depth coverage
in the context of broader social, political & cultural issues.


* The Tyranny of Rent
  Neil Gray
...responds to Eliot M. Trettter’s article ‘The Cultures of Capitalism:
Glasgow and the Monopoly of Culture’ (Antipode: 2009). Tretter’s work,
deeply influenced by the research of urban theorist David Harvey, can be
seen as a continuation of the critical vein of historical geographical
materialism. But, Gray argues, Tretter’s "narrow emphasis on the monopoly
aspects of culture and representational issues omits other forms of monopoly
and underplays the still central question of labour in the valorisation of
capital. However, Tretter's re-appraisal of the Workers City group, and his
appeal for their enduring relevance, provides a platform from which to
analyse a continuum of dispossession that has never stopped and to bring
important lessons from the contested past into a productive and critical
relationship with this present era of recession and financial crisis."

text   http://www.variant.org.uk/37texts/13RentTyranny.html
pdf   http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue37/V37rentyrany.pdf


* On bullshit in cultural policy practice & research
 Eleonora Belfiore
Taking Harry G. Frankfurt's essay 'On Bullshit ' as its starting point,
Belfiore explores the analysis of bullshit and the prevalence of
bullshitting in the contemporary public sphere. Frankfurt's short essay
provides an intellectual framework to interpret and understand contemporary
rhetoric and practice in the cultural policy field, as well as recent trends
in cultural policy research. Through a discussion of selected UK cultural
policy documents, the article aims to show that many of the key actors in
the cultural policy debate indeed display the 'indifference to how things
really are' and the cultivation of vested interests which Frankfurt
attributes to the activity of bullshitting. In conclusion, Belfiore spells
out the implications of the present status quo for 'critical' cultural
policy research.

text   http://www.variant.org.uk/37texts/3PolicyPractice.html
pdf   http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue37/V37incultpol.pdf



Variant, issue 37, Spring/Summer 2010
http://www.variant.org.uk

Contents

Editorial

Radical Change In Culture / Manifesto

On bullshit in cultural policy practice & research
 Eleonora Belfiore

Remembering Brian Barry
 Femi Folorunso

Launch of ‘Friends of Belge’ : An Appeal for Solidarity
 Desmond Fernandes

Print Creations Comic & Zine reviews
 Mark Pawson

Doodley-doo? Doodley don’t! Life and Sabotage
 Gesa Helms

Comment : "Art Workers Won’t Kiss Ass"
 Owen Logan

Precarious Labor: A Feminist Viewpoint
 Silvia Federici

Overidentification and/or bust?
 Stevphen Shukaitis

Learning to Breathe Protest
Salong, Interflugs, Academy of Refusal, 10th Floor

‘We have decided not to die.’ On taking and leaving the University
 Marina Vishmidt

The Tyranny of Rent
 Neil Gray



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