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

Books

• James Heartfield, Need and desire in the post-material economy, Perpetuity Press, Jun 1998, ISBN-10: 0863397905, ISBN-13: 978-0863397905
• James Heartfield, Great Expectations: The Creative Industries in the New Economy, Design Agenda, 15 Jun 2000, ISBN-10: 0953875806
• James Heartfield and Ian Abley, Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-machine Age, John Wiley & Sons, 4 Jan 2002, ISBN-10: 0471486604
• James Heartfield, Let's Build!: Why We Need Five Million New Homes in the Next 10 Years, audacity, 20 Sep 2006, ISBN-10: 0955383005
• James Heartfield, The Death of the Subject Explained, Booksurge Llc, 2 Aug 2006, ISBN-10: 141964436X
• James Heartfield, Green Capitalism: Manufacturing Scarcity in an Age of Abundance, Mute Publishing Ltd, 1 Feb 2008, ISBN-10: 9781906496104
• James Heartfield, The Aborigines' Protection Society: Humanitarian Imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 1837-1909, C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 30 Jun 2011, ISBN-10: 1849041202

Journal articles, book chapters, research reports and pamphlets

• Vladimir Illich Lenin, The State and Revolution. The Marxist Theory of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution. Introduction by James Heartfield London: Junius Publications Ltd; 1st. edition (1994) ISBN-10: 0948392185 ISBN-13: 978-0948392184
• James Heartfield, The Creativity Gap: Why Less Hype Is More Innovation In The Culture Sector, Blueprint Broadside, May 15, 2005.

Essays

1998

• James Heartfield, USA under Foreign Occupation, in Kiddrie and Wedlock (eds) The Tree of Liberty, Vol.2, John Hopkins UP, 1998, p 751, ISBN-13: 978-0801858116

2000

• James Heartfield, The Politics of Food: Two cheers for Agri-business, Review of Radical Political Economy, June 2000

2001

• James Heartfield, Ulrich Beck, Brave New World of Work reviewed, Head and Hand, Autumn 2001

• James Heartfield, A critique of Teodor Shanin's The Russian Road, 2001

• James Heartfield, Michel Chossudovsky, The Globalisation of Poverty reviewed, Review of Radical Political Economy, Spring 2001

2002

• James Heartfield, The Dark Races Against the Light - Official Reaction to the 1959 Fiji Riots, Journal of Pacific History, Volume 37, Number 1/June 01, 2002.

• James Heartfield, There is No Masculinity Crisis, Genders Online Journal, 2002.

• James Heartfield, Algeria and the Defeat of French Humanism, Chapter six of The 'Death of the Subject' Explained, Sheffield Hallam University, reproduced on 'Marxists.org', 2002.

2003

• James Heartfield, Capitalism and anti-Capitalism, interventions, Vol. 5 (2), 2003
• James Heartfield, You are not a White Woman! - Apolosi Nawai, the Fiji Produce Agency and the Trial of Stella Spencer in Fiji, 1915 scandal and rebellion in colonial Fiji, in the Journal of Pacific History, Volume 38, Number 1 / June 2003
• James Heartfield, The economy of time, Cultural Trends 43&44, 2003

2004

• James Heartfield, Branding over the cracks, Critique 35, June 2004 

• James Heartfield, Londonostalgia, Blueprint, September 2004. London's self-image is steeped in nostalgia.

• James Heartfield, Zombie anti-imperialists vs the 'Empire,  Today's anti-war movement is motivated more by romanticism than a serious critique of imperialism, "Spiked", 1 September 2004.

2005

• James Heartfield, Creative London: an in-depth report on the GLA's creative industries, for Rising East Online
, 2005
• James Heartfield, China's Comprador Capitalism is Coming Home, Review of Radical Political Economy, Vol. 37, No. 2,  (2005)
• James Heartfield, Hegel Dispirited - the reification of the Other, in Kojève, DeBeauvoir and Sartre, for Liverpool's Static arts organisation, 2005




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.

1995

• James Heartfield, 'After the US elections', Living Marxism, No. 75 - January 1995, p. 28.
• James Heartfield, 'The Marxist Review of Books', Living Marxism, No. 75 - January 1995, p. 43.
• James Heartfield, 'Animal rights and wrongs', Living Marxism, No. 76 - February 1995, p. 15.
• James Heartfield, 'Behind the animal welfare protests', Living Marxism, No. 77 - March 1995, p. 20.
• James Heartfield, 'The parties are over', Living Marxism, No. 78 - April 1995, p. 16.
• James Heartfield, 'After the Oklahoma bomb', Living Marxism, No. 80 - June 1995, p. 32.
• James Heartfield, 'The Marxist Review of Books', Living Marxism, No. 80 - June 1995, p. 47.
• James Heartfield, 'A tyranny of rights', Living Marxism, No. 82 - September 1995, p. 24.
• James Heartfield, 'The Marxist Review of Books', Living Marxism, No. 82 - September 1995, p. 43.
• James Heartfield, 'Private affairs, public control', Living Marxism, No. 84 - November 1995, p. 14.
• James Heartfield, 'Francis Fukuyama interview', Living Marxism, No. 85 - December 1995, p. 28.

1996

• James Heartfield, 'For the tyranny of the majority', Living Marxism, No. 87 - February 1996, p. 27.
• James Heartfield, 'Judges rule', Living Marxism, No. 89 - April 1996, p. 14.
• James Heartfield, 'The Marxist Review of Books', Living Marxism, No. 89 - April 1996, p. 43.
• James Heartfield, 'The politics of the unreal world', Living Marxism, No. 92 - July/August 1996, p. 34.
• James Heartfield. 'Review of Blair's Gurus and What Needs to Change', Living Marxism, No. 93, September 1996, p. 46.
• James Heartfield, 'Communal self-sacrifice', Living Marxism, No. 94 - October 1996, p. 24.
• James Heartfield, 'US election puts politics aside', Living Marxism, No. 96 - December/January 1996/1997, p. 22.

1997

• James Heartfield, 'John Bird sings', LM 98, March 1998.
• James Heartfield, 'Consuming passions', LM 99, p. 28, April 1997.
• James Heartfield, 'Reading between the lines', LM 100, p. 43, May 1997.
• James Heartfield, 'Who made freedom a dirty word?', LM 101, p. 16, June 1997.
• James Heartfield, 'Neil Hamilton interview', LM 102, p. 8, July/August 1997.
• Dr Stuart Derbyshire and James Heartfield, 'Futures Exchange: Do genes influence intelligence?', LM 102, p. 38, July/August 1997.
• James Heartfield, 'The corruption of politics and the politics of corruption', Living Marxism, No. 103 - September 1997, p. 14.
• James Heartfield, 'Cartooning for equality', LM 104, October 1997.
• James Heartfield, 'Brand New Britain?', LM 105, p. 24, November 1997.
• James Heartfield, 'Getting it wrong on human rights', LM 106, p. 20, December 1997/January 1998.

1998

• James Heartfield, 'Reading between the lines', LM 106, p. 43, December 1997/January 1998.
• James Heartfield, 'Why hate speech?', LM 107, p. 18, February 1998.
• James Heartfield, 'Cash, questions and answers', LM 108, p. 14, March 1998.
• James Heartfield, 'And a child shall lead them', LM 109, p. 10, April 1998.
• James Heartfield, 'Is fear itself the greatest danger?', LM 110, May 1998.
• James Heartfield, 'Reading between the lines', LM 110, p. 43, May 1998.
• James Heartfield, 'Mary Bell: who killed childhood?', LM 111, p. 10, June 1998.
• James Heartfield, 'Who's dumbing down?', LM 112, p. 26, July/August 1998.
• James Heartfield, 'Cyclists and motorists, unite', LM 113, p. 37, September 1998.
• James Heartfield, 'Patrick the perverse', Living Marxism, No. 114 - October 1998.
• James Heartfield, 'The Freedom Issue', Living Marxism, No. 115 - November 1998, p. 19.
• James Heartfield, 'Pre-millennial tensions', LM 116, p. 11, December/January 1998/1999.
• James Heartfield, 'Ben Evans: the man who's planning the party', LM 116, p. 17, December/January 1998/1999.

1999

• James Heartfield, 'Sleaze: labouring under an illusion', LM 117, p. 16, February 1999.
• James Heartfield, 'Kitchen-sunk drama', LM 117, p. 33, February 1999.
• James Heartfield, 'The new socialism of fools?', LM 119, p. 24, April 1999.
• James Heartfield, 'United by a common hatred', The Times, 30 April 1999
• James Heartfield, 'Taboos: Smacking parents', LM 121, p. 17, June 1999.
• James Heartfield, 'Culture Vultures', LM 121, p. 36, June 1999.
• James Heartfield, 'Palestine: Barak to the future?', LM 123, p. 22, September 1999.
• James Heartfield, 'Agribusiness and its helpful critics', LM 124, p. 18, October 1999.
• James Heartfield, 'Who's new in Labour?', LM 125, p. 32, November 1999.

2000

• James Heartfield, 'In Defence of Real Rights', Revolution, August 2000

2001

• James Heartfield, 'Culture vultures', Spiked, 15 March 2001
• James Heartfield, 'Friends, allies and enemies', Spiked, 16 November 2001

2002

• James Heartfield, 'Let's Build', IntheSticks, January 2002
• James Heartfield, 'Concrete over the countryside', Blueprint, January 2002
• James Heartfield, 'Farmers turned park-keepers', Spiked, 31 January 2002
• James Heartfield, 'Too late, the French left have a cause', Spiked, 22 April 2002
• James Heartfield, 'Continental drift', "Spiked", 11 June 2002
• James Heartfield, 'TV as judge and executioner', Spiked, 27 June 2002
• James Heartfield, 'BBC Plays Judge and Executioner', Alternet.org, 1 July 2002
• James Heartfield, 'Summing up our fears', Spiked, 22 August 2002
• James Heartfield, 'Nowhere near Enough', Blueprint, September 2002
• James Heartfield, 'Trot along, Martin', Spiked, 6 September 2002
• James Heartfield, 'Germany's Third Way win', Spiked, 24 September 2002
• James Heartfield, 'Forgetting the evils of Empire', Spiked, 27 September 2002
• James Heartfield, 'Breaking up Indonesia', Spiked, 17 October 2002
• James Heartfield, 'Language barriers', Spiked, 1 November 2002
• James Heartfield, 'The French connection', Spiked, 21 November 2002
• James Heartfield, 'Taking Churchill at his words', Spiked, 26 November 2002
• James Heartfield, 'The Rise of French Diplomacy', Alternet.org, 27 November 2002

2003

• James Heartfield, 'Dangerous Liaisons...', Times Educational Supplement, 10 January 2003
• James Heartfield, 'Rethinking Human Rights', Spiked, 27 March 2003
• James Heartfield, 'That uprising', Spiked, 27 March 2003
• James Heartfield, 'A house of cards', Spiked, 14 May 2003
• James Heartfield, 'Capital of Complaints', Spiked, 5 June 2003
• James Heartfield, 'Policy has not created diversity', Spiked, 19 June 2003
• James Heartfield, 'Dancing the Cancun', Spiked, 18 September 2003
• James Heartfield, 'What Edward Said', Spiked, 1 October 2003
• James Heartfield, 'Axis of influence', Spiked, 23 October 2003

2004

• James Heartfield, 'Fixing a hole?', Times Educational Supplement, 7 May 2004
• James Heartfield, 'Euro-smugness gets a free ride', Spiked, 26 May 2004
• James Heartfield, 'Bonfire of the investment opportunities', Spiked, 28 May 2004
• James Heartfield, 'Zombie anti-imperialists vs the 'Empire', Spiked, 1 September 2004
• James Heartfield, 'Building School Success', Prospect (Scotland), 14 September 2004

• James Heartfield, 'Red Lorry', Blueprint, October 2004
• James Heartfield, 'Constructing Global Civil Society', Spiked, 10 December 2004

2005

• James Heartfield, 'Seize a hold on the pole position', Times Educational Supplement, 07 January 2005
• James Heartfield, 'New communities, same old problems', Times Educational Supplement, 14 January 2005
• James Heartfield, 'James Heartfield detects confusing signals in the housing debate', Times Educational Supplement, 14 January 2005
• James Heartfield, 'Pitting parent against parent', Spiked, 21 January 2005
• James Heartfield, 'All talk and no bricks', Spiked, 26 January 2005
• James Heartfield, 'Refuge makes for Turkish delight ', Times Educational Supplement, 04 February 2005
• James Heartfield, 'The government must stop finding reasons not to build new homes', The Guardian, 21 February 2005
• James Heartfield, 'From unrest to uncertainty', Times Educational Supplement, 04 March 2005
• James Heartfield, 'Suffer the children', Times Educational Supplement, 08 April 2005
• James Heartfield, 'Island trouble ', Times Educational Supplement,  06 May 2005
• James Heartfield, The Battle of the Books: Revising the History of the Second World War, Spiked, 9 May 2005

• James Heartfield, 'A kick up the career', Times Educational Supplement,  13 May 2005
• James Heartfield, 'Scatterlings from Africa', Times Educational Supplement,  03 June 2005
• James Heartfield, 'Mao: the Untold Story, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, reviewed', Spiked, 4 July 2005
• James Heartfield, 'Lifting the veil on Islam', Times Educational Supplement,  23 September 2005
• James Heartfield, 'Conservation's Conservative streak', Spiked, 21 October 2005
• James Heartfield, 'Humanist pupils: the right not to pray', Times Educational Supplement,  28 October 2005
• James Heartfield, 'They should have dropped the Code of Conduct, not the minister', Spiked, 2 November 2005
• James Heartfield, 'Who's fanning the flames?', Spiked, 8 November 2005
• James Heartfield, 'Cox Report: creative accounting', Spiked, 17 November 2005
• James Heartfield, 'City, suburbs and snobs', Spiked, 30 November 2005
• James Heartfield, 'Humanitarian interventionists dig in', Spiked, 16 December 2005

2006

• James Heartfield, 'Who's afraid of the Thames Gateway?', Spiked, 6 January 2006
• James Heartfield, 'The biggest scandal in Italian politics', Spiked, 7 March 2006
• James Heartfield, 'Overthrowing the father', Spiked, 14 November 2006
• James Heartfield and Julia Svetlichnaja, "Final interview of the poisoned former spy," Telegraph (UK), November 25, 2006.

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