Claudia Firth

Claudia a Cultural and Critical Studies MPhil/PhD student at Birkbeck College, University of London. My PhD project involves writing a non linear history inspired by Peter Weiss’ Aesthetics of Resistance. She is a founding member and regular contributor of Nyx, the journal for the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research interests include art and politics, technology and the body and the crossovers and tensions between image and text.

She has a background as a visual artist and facilitates workshops in both arts and activist arenas. She has worked with activist groups such as the Precarious Workers Brigade and the Radical Housing Network. Her current research interests are organization and collective knowledge production, tools and machines, and the intersection between aesthetics, affect and politics. She has written on a variety of subjects including the sharing economy, art and protest, disability and technology, and governmentality. Her writings include articles for Nyx, the journal for the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, Dandelion, the journal at Birkbeck College and DIS online magazine.

She also co-wrote The Force of Listening Lucia Farianti, a new publication looking at the role of listening in contemporary conjunctions between art and activism, published as part of the Doormats series by Errant Bodies Press.

http://www.errantbodies.org/doormats_6.html