James Heartfield
Encyclopedia
James Heartfield is a British journalist who writes and lectures on economic regeneration. Heartfield is director of the think-tank Audacity.org, and a former member and theoretician of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Heartfield writes for Art Review, Spiked Online
, and The Times Education Supplement. Heartfield has had articles published in the Guardian, the Telegraph, The Times, Blueprint, the Architects' Journal, the Review of Radical Political Economy, Rising East
and Cultural Trends.
Heartfield has been critical of government policies on the creative industries, talking and writing on the illusions of the knowledge economy
. Nick Bell named Heartfield as 'one of the most important commentators on design' In May 2006, with Julia Svetlichnaja he interviewed the Russian dissident, Alexander Litvinenko
. The interviews were published after Litvinenko's death
.
Heartfield was born in Leeds
in 1961. He lives in north London
and is married with two daughters, Holly and Daisy.
Heartfield writes for Art Review, Spiked Online
Spiked (magazine)
Spiked is a British Internet magazine focusing on politics, culture and society from a humanist and libertarian viewpoint.- Editors and contributors :...
, and The Times Education Supplement. Heartfield has had articles published in the Guardian, the Telegraph, The Times, Blueprint, the Architects' Journal, the Review of Radical Political Economy, Rising East
Rising East
Rising East is an online journal focusing on social and cultural issues associated with the regeneration of east London. Produced by the University of East London's Research Institute, it was originally a print journal produced by Lawrence & Wishart .-External links:* *...
and Cultural Trends.
Heartfield has been critical of government policies on the creative industries, talking and writing on the illusions of the knowledge economy
Knowledge economy
The knowledge economy is a term that refers either to an economy of knowledge focused on the production and management of knowledge in the frame of economic constraints, or to a knowledge-based economy. In the second meaning, more frequently used, it refers to the use of knowledge technologies to...
. Nick Bell named Heartfield as 'one of the most important commentators on design' In May 2006, with Julia Svetlichnaja he interviewed the Russian dissident, Alexander Litvinenko
Alexander Litvinenko
Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko was an officer who served in the Soviet KGB and its Russian successor, the Federal Security Service ....
. The interviews were published after Litvinenko's death
Alexander Litvinenko poisoning
Alexander Litvinenko was a former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service, FSB and KGB, who escaped prosecution in Russia and received political asylum in the United Kingdom...
.
Heartfield was born in Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...
in 1961. He lives in north London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
and is married with two daughters, Holly and Daisy.
Publications
- The Aborigines' Protection Society: Humanitarian Imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 1836-1909 Hurst (London), and Columbia University Press (New York), 2011
- Green Capitalism: manufacturing scarcity in an age of abundance Openmute, 2008
- Let's Build! Why we need Five Million Homes in the next 10 Years (Audacity, 2006)
- Escape the Creative Ghetto, with Chris Powell, NESTA, 2006
- Creativity Gap Blueprint, 2005
- The "Death of the Subject" Explained Sheffield Hallam University Press, 2002
- Great Expectations: the creative industries in the New Economy London, Design Agenda, 2000
- Need and Desire in the Post-material Economy Sheffield Hallam University Press, 1998
- Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Ageco-editor with Ian Abley, London, John Wiley, 2002.
Recent papers
- 'The Russian security services Ethnic Division and the Elimination of Moscow's Chechen Business Class in the 1990s' Critique, Volume 36, Issue 3 December 2008 , pages 385-402
- Credit Crunch or Carbon Crunch a debate for the Institute of Directors, 29 October 2008
- 'Creativity as Ideology', Renewal: Journal of Social Democracy, Vol 16, No.2, 2008
- The Golden Age or a Lot of Hot Air? A debate with Arts Council Chief Executive Peter Hewitt and journalist Dan Atkinson at the Creative Clusters conference, London, 14 November 2007
- Town and Country All Planned Out: the Worldwide Impact of the TCPA, Building Centre, 19 May 2007
- Interviewing Litvinenko Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster University, 30 January 2007
- Sprawl, Democracy Club, 14 November 2006
- Superbia, Kingston University Suburban Studies Dayschool, September 2006
- Farewell to the City Rural Futures conference, Plymouth, 6 April 2006
