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<p><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica">an We Unlearn Liberal
Individualism Like We Can Unlearn Racism and Sexism? </span></b><span
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<p><span style="font-family:Helvetica">J</span><span
style="font-family:Helvetica">oin us for this ‘In-conversation’,
where Gary Hall and Carolina Rito address this question while
discussing Hall's latest book,<i> A Stubborn Fury: How Writing
Works in Elitist Britain</i></span> <b><span
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will be addressed during the event include: </span></p>
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style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
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writing in England is realist, humanist and anti-intellectual?</span></p>
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style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
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Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Is all great
literature pirated?</span></p>
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style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
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Oxbridge-educated journalists obsessed with protecting
‘ordinary’ people from difficult language?</span></p>
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style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
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Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">What do we need most –
another theory of revolution or a revolution of theory?</span></p>
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style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Is everyone writing
their memoirs today or does it just seem like it?</span></p>
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style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">And why is Gary so
mean to Tom McCarthy?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Biographies</span></b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica"></span></b><b><span
style="font-family:Helvetica">Gary Hall - Author </span></b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Gary Hall
is a critical theorist and media philosopher working in the
areas of digital culture, politics and technology. He is
Professor of Media in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at
Coventry University, UK, where he directs the Centre for
Postdigital Cultures. He is the author of a number of books,
including <i>Pirate Philosophy</i> (MIT Press, 2016) and <i>The
Uberfication of the University</i> (University of Minnesota
Press, 2016).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> </span></b><b><span
style="font-family:Helvetica">Carolina Rito</span></b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Carolina
Rito is Professor of Creative Practice Research, at the
Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (CAMC), at
Coventry University; and leads on the centre’s Critical
Practices research strand. She is a researcher and curator
whose work explores ‘the curatorial’ as an investigative
practice, expanding practice-based research in the fields of
curating, visual arts, visual cultures and cultural studies.
Rito is Executive Board Member of the Midlands Higher
Education & Culture Forum; Research Fellow at the
Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), Universidade NOVA de
Lisboa; Founding Editor of The Contemporary Journal; and Chair
for the Collaborative Research Working Group for the MHECF.
Rito is the co-editor of Institution as Praxis – New
Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research (Sternberg,
2020), Architectures of Education (e-flux Architecture, 2020),
and FABRICATING PUBLICS: the dissemination of culture in the
post-truth era (Open Humanities Press, forthcoming). </span></p>
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style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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book:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Gary Hall, A Stubborn
Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain<br>
London: Open Humanities Press, 2021<br>
Series: Media : Art : Write : Now<br>
<br>
E-version freely available on an open access, no copyright
basis:<br>
</span><a
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/</span></a><span
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Also available in paperback<br>
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<b>Abstract</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:Helvetica">A
Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"></span><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:#222222; mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Two
fifths of Britain’s leading people were educated privately:
that’s five times the amount as in the population as a whole,
with almost a quarter g</span><span
style="font-family:Helvetica">raduating from Oxford or
Cambridge. Eight private schools send more pupils to Oxbridge
than the remaining 2894 state schools combined, making modern
Britain one of the most unequal places in Europe.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-fareast-language: EN-GB"> </span><span
style="font-family:Helvetica">In </span><a
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/"><i><span
style="font-family:Helvetica">A Stubborn Fury</span></i></a><span
style="font-family:Helvetica">, Gary Hall offers a powerful
and provocative look at the consequences of this inequality
for English culture in particular. Focusing on the literary
novel and the memoir, he investigates, in terms that are as
insightful as they are irreverent, why so much writing in
England is uncritically realist, humanist and
anti-intellectual. Hall does so by playfully rewriting two of
the most acclaimed contributions to these media genres of
recent times. One is that of England’s foremost avant-garde
novelist Tom McCarthy, and the importance he attaches to
European modernism and antihumanist theory. The other is that
of the celebrated French memoirists Didier Eribon and Édouard
Louis, and their attempt to reinvent the antihumanist
philosophical tradition by producing a theory that speaks
about class and intersectionality, yet generates the
excitement of a Kendrick Lamar concert. Experimentally
pirating McCarthy, Eribon and Louis, <i>A Stubborn Fury</i> addresses
that most urgent of questions: what can be done about English
literary culture’s addiction to the worldview of privileged,
middle-class white men, very much to the exclusion of more
radically inventive writing, including that of working-class,
BAME and LGBTQIAP+ authors?</span></p>
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Coventry University:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures">http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
Latest:
Book (open access): A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/</a>
Chapter (open access): ‘Postdigital Politics’, in Cornelia Sollfrank, Shuhsa Niederberger and Felix Stalder, eds, Aesthetics of the Commons:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419">https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419</a>
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