Culture and media
Taking our cue from Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore how politics works through old and new media, books, film, stage and screen, music and sport.
We cover a breadth of themes, from representations of class, race and gender in the arts, to progressive and reactionary uses of nostalgia, to the grassroots voices democratising the channels of communication.
Taking our cue from Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore how politics works through old and new media, books, film, stage and screen, music and sport.
We cover a breadth of themes, from representations of class, race and gender in the arts, to progressive and reactionary uses of nostalgia, to the grassroots voices democratising the channels of communication.
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Neoliberal economics is killing the arts
Funding cuts and reduced access are cementing the arts as a privileged realm. It’s time to resist ‘art-as-capital’ thinking, argues Tim Lutton
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Empire of Normality – review
Chapman’s book offers a vitally needed theoretical framework for neurodivergent anti-capitalism, writes Gerald Roche
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Radical reels: an interview with Reel News
An anonymous activist from the video collective Reel News describes how it has supported various campaigns since the pathbreaking rise of indie media
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First as tragedy, second as podcasts
Politicians keep launching podcasts. The medium’s veneer of authenticity only works to reinforce establishment discourse, argues Daniel Eales
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Listening with Stuart Hall
The academic and activist died ten years ago. Dialogue and engagement were among his many lasting gifts, write Yasmin Gunaratnam and Mike Dibb
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Stuart Hall reviews ‘Shadows’
In this previously unpublished text, written in 1961, Stuart Hall surveys rhythmic interplays of race, culture, love and power in the film Shadows
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My work – review
Olga Ravn’s latest novel reflects the growing and ever changing demands that work subjects us to, writes Elinor Potts