James Heartfield

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Introduction

James Heartfield (originally born James Hughes), was born on 31 May 1961 and is an author and academic and an associate of the libertarian and anti-environmental LM network. He worked for the RCP as an 'organiser' in Islington and Manchester, has written for Living Marxism, Culture Wars, Pro-Choice Forum and Spiked, speaks at the Battle of Ideas and the Birmingham Salon and is a director of building promoters Audacity. He is married to Eve Kay-Kreizman. He has been linked to longtime LM associate Will Deighton. There has been at least one instance where they claim to be distinct and collaborators.

Publications

Heartfield's own listing of his publications in LM Magazine, 1992-1999 Articles from Living Marxism online:

• James Heartfield, Need and Desire in the Post-Material Economy, Perpetuity Press, 1998
• James Heartfield, Great Expectations: The Creative Industries in the New Economy, Design Agenda, 2000
• Ian Abley, James Heartfield, Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age, Wiley-Academy, 2001
• James Heartfield, The Death of the Subject Explained, Booksurge, 2006 Extract here
• James Heartfield, The Creativity Gap: Why Less Hype Is More Innovation In The Culture Sector, Blueprint Broadside, May 15, 2005.
• James Heartfield, Let's Build! Why we need five million homes in the next 10 years, Audacity, 2006
• James Heartfield and Julia Svetlichnaja, "Final interview of the poisoned former spy," Telegraph (UK), November 25, 2006.
• James Heartfield Green Capitalism: manufacturing scarcity in an age of abundance (Openmute, 2008)

Popular press, magazines articles and web publications

1989

• James Heartfield, 'Bash Street Kids Rool', Living Marxism, No. 12 - October 1989, p. 42.

1990

• Mike Freeman, Charles Longford, James Heartfield and Gemma Forest, 'The Marxist Review of Books', Living Marxism, No. 23 - September 1990, p. 47-50.
• James Heartfield, 'Patrick Hughes interview: Putting the infinite in perspective', Living Marxism, No. 26 - December 1990, p. 42.

1992

• James Heartfield, 'The Marxist Review of Books', Living Marxism, No. 42 - April 1992, p. 43.
• James Heartfield, 'Prophet and loss, FA Hayek', Living Marxism, No. 43 - May 1992.
• James Heartfield, 'Prophet and loss, FA Hayek', Living Marxism, No. 43 - May 1992.
• James Heartfield and Graham Bishop, 'Can George Bush beat the 'commie-libs'?', Living Marxism, No. 48 - October 1992, p. 10.

1993

• James Heartfield, 'Corrupting democracy in America', Living Marxism, No. 51 - January 1993, p. 30.
• James Heartfield, 'The PC presidency', Living Marxism, No. 53 - March 1993, p. 32.
• James Heartfield, 'The Marxist Review of Books', Living Marxism, No. 58 - August 1993, p. 43.
• James Heartfield, 'Who gains from Tory losses?', Living Marxism, No. 59 - September 1993, p. 22.
• James Heartfield, 'Children's rights? Wrong', Living Marxism, No. 60 - October 1993, p. 12.
• James Heartfield, 'Framing Libya', Living Marxism, No. 61 - November 1993, p. 12-13.
• James Heartfield, 'The Marxist Review of Books', Living Marxism, No. 61 - November 1993, p. 43-46.
• James Heartfield, 'The victim support state', Living Marxism, No. 62 - December 1993, p. 20.

1994

• James Heartfield, 'Back to whose basics?', Living Marxism, No. 63 - January 1994, p. 18.
• James Heartfield and James Malone, 'Why PC can damage your health', Living Marxism, No. 65 - March 1994, p. 12.
• James Heartfield, 'Dali', Living Marxism, No. 66 - April 1994.
• James Heartfield, 'The privatisation of everyday life', Living Marxism, No. 67 - May 1994, p. 30.
• James Heartfield, 'Prince Charles' magazine', Living Marxism, No. 67 - May 1994.
• James Heartfield, 'Major's D-Day debacle', Living Marxism, No. 68 - June 1994, p. 12.
• James Heartfield, 'PC: the secret society', Living Marxism, No. 68 - June 1994, p. 29.
• James Heartfield, 'China: human rights make no cents', Living Marxism, No. 69 - July 1994, p. 20.
• James Heartfield, 'Defending Damien Hirst', Living Marxism, No. 69 - July 1994.
• James Heartfield, 'Community conformity', Living Marxism, No. 70 - August 1994, p. 27.
• James Heartfield, 'Jeff Koons', Living Marxism, No. 70 - August 1994.
• James Heartfield, 'Race, class and IQ', Living Marxism, No. 74 - December 1994, p. 24.

Recent papers

• 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

Resources

• Wikipedia James Heartfield
• Sourcewatch James Heartfield
• Audacity.org, James Heartfield Profile, accessed 29 Dec 2010

Postings to mailing lists by or about James Heartfield

• This Google search retrieves postings by or about James Heartfield to mailing lists archived at mail-archive.com: "james heartfield" site:mail-archive.com. Many of these postings are to the Marxism-Thaxis list.
• This Google search retrieves postings made by James Heartfield using a defunct email address: "Jim@heartfield.demon.co.uk". Some of the postings pertain to the ITN-LM group libel case.

Blogsite

• James Heartfield's home page mirror site