London calling to the imitation zone
Forget it, brother, you can go it alone.
London calling to the zombies of death
Quit holding out and draw another breath.
London calling
and I don't want to shout.
But while we were talking, I saw you nodding out..
 Material Culture
FSS, SANb 2032          MUNI

20 Sept 1979
The bass player of the punk bank The Clash (Paul Simonon) angry because the crowd at The Palladium
in New York City is not standing, smashes his bass guitar on stage. The photo is by Pennie Smith,
who thinks it is too blurry. The London Calling  album art director loves it and gives it the
cover.
As well as capturing one of the defining moments of the punk scene – this ‘still’ images becomes an
iconic rock’n’roll photo.

Basu, P. (2013), Ancestries and Trajectories in MC Studies.
Hicks, D. (2010), The Material-culture Turn: Event and Effect. In Hicks D. & M.C. Beaudry (eds) The
Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies. Oxon: OUP (25-98).
Miller, D. & C. Tilley (1996), editorial. JMC 1 (1): 5-14.
Interdisciplinary, inclusive, experimental but rigorous. No ‘genealogy’ of ancestors, but… (see
Basu)
MC studies is both a Critical and political project. Undisciplined.
“Some of the aims of cultural studies are similar to those advanced in this journal. The major
differences are our emphasis on the material constitution of sociality and a greater commitment to
comparative studies”.










Industrial Revolution:   some characteristics.
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-Large scale urbanisation;
-The establishment of the nation-state and such concepts as citizenship, national identity and so
forth;
-The rapid onset of continued economic change and the development of moral and legal systems of
ownership for land, resources, property and labour;
- Separation of economies from restricted resources and agricultural bases towards global trade and
exchange;
-Sustained increases in general living standards;
-But the establishment of firm class systems where wealth becomes increasingly distributed
unevenly.

• Margaret Mary Tew
•‘Mary Douglas’
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•b 25 March 1921 Sanremo, It
•d 16 May 2007 Ldn.
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•Douglas, M. & B. Isherwood
•(1979), The World of Goods.
• London: Routledge.

Arjun Appadurai (b.1949 Bombay/Mumbai --  )
Editor 1986 The Social Life of Things (Cambridge: CUP)





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     Coalbrookdale by Night, 1801
     Philipp Jakob de Loutherbourg the Younger (1740 – 1812)

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1818
Casper David Friedrich (1774 -1840) German romantic movement


Liberté guidant le peuple (Liberty Guiding the People), 1830
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)  French romantic movement
Image:Eugène Delacroix - La liberté guidant le peuple.jpg

Raharuhi Rukupo (of Rongowhakaata) Te Hau-Ki-Turanga, 1840-42



Hall of Witness U. S. Holocaust Memorial



United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Entrance, Washington, D.C. James Ingo Freed   (1930-2005)





















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•Anna Grimshaw
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•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CUUHGSH_mc
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•Forrest, Anna 2020
•   Warburg Inst Lecture
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Las meninas: Diego Vélasquez  (1656-1657) Collection: Musée du Prado, Madrid
Philip IV & Mariana of Austria. Infanta Margaret Theresa. Their five-year-old child later married
the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I.  At this time, she’s the King & Queen’s only surviving child.

•Foucault, Michel (1966). Les mots et les  choses. Une archéologie des sciences humaines. Paris:
Gallimard.
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•(1970). The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. London: Tavistock.




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Al-Idrisi's map of the world, 1456. Muslim scholar in the court of King Roger II of Sicily.
Completed a map of the known world in the 12th C.




Tour de France
‘Tour de France’ (1983)    Ionic Vision cover of  Kraftwerk
The hell of Northern Paris – Roubaix   (above Lille nr Belgium border)
The Côte d'Azur and Saint Tropez
The Alps and the Pyrénées
Last stage Champs-Élysées
Galibier and Tourmalet    (both mountain places ‘col’ & a brand of cycling vest)
Dancing even on the top
Bicycling at high gear
Final sprint at the finish
Flat tyre on the paving-stones
The bicycle is repaired quickly
The peloton is regrouped
Comrades and friendship