Don’t Stop the Carnival!

We're on the eve of a massive protest against the cuts. The students' resistance is taking the form of a carnival in London, as this colourful poster proclaims.

I will be in London this week, but not until Friday when I'm visiting the Treasures from Budapest exhibition at the Royal Academy. I'm bound to lose myself in the renaissance and baroque sections of this show.

Still, I'll send the carnival my best wishes and support. There's a "dark new philistinism" looming over the country, and the high spirits of this event will hopefully go some way towards dispelling it.

Meanwhile, to give you some idea of the anger brewing in U.K. universities, here's a letter pledging support to the students- it was sent to the Guardian yesterday and is signed by no less than 295 academics.

 

Here's my pictorial tribute to the COR: Pieter Bruegel the Younger's Battle between Carnival and Lent. Plenty v Austerity, I guess.

 

There'll be a longer, more conventional post up before the end of the week.  

Comments

[Paula Humfrey]

David,

Hope your Royal Academy visit was spiffy.

I'm checking in to let you know that I followed H. Niyazi's wise comments over following your 'Art of Bad Government' thread:

"As for the political side of things... [I] can only hope that the ratio of action:analysis tips in favour of the former on the side of the people it is affecting."

And also over on 3pp:

"new projects that start small and achievable are the key to getting the ball rolling."

(See: http://www.3pipe.net/2010/11/tempest-facing-academics-and-humanities.html#comments)

So here's what I did. Thanks huge for posting the Guardian open letter in support of student protests. I emailed every signatory to the letter a copy of the 'dIgital deviants' article. Now I'm in contact with a number of good people and brainstorming ways to foster a proper revolution in higher ed.

Viva La Revolución,
Paula

[Art History Today]

Paula,

Yes, the RA was great- over 220 drawings and paintings. I'm exhausted.

Before sleep, hope your article gets some response from the signatories. H's post was v inspiring.

From following the debate on the web I would guess that a move from theory to praxis is more likely to happen once we turn the corner into 2011. Things are bad now, but they're going to get a whole lot worse next year. Meanwhile, here's something worrying though not entirely surprising.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11845961

Best- David

[Paula Humfrey]

Yikes. And in the US, too, where the approach is less... collaborative:

"Homeland Security seizes domain names"
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/130763-homeland-security-dept-seizes-domain-names-

I wonder whether this is the thin edge of the censorship wedge, or instead whether the tools being deployed are way too brittle to work well, since the web is effectively beyond the control of any one agency and is nicely self-policing anyhow.

looking forward to reading the report of your field trip,
Paula

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