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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The Truth About Empire – review
More than a mere rebuttal of colonial apologetics, The Truth About Empire is a vital tool against the rising tide of reactionary retellings of history, writes Peter Mitchell
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The Broken Promise of Infrastructure – review
Dominic Davies’s book is a much needed analysis of the role infrastructure relates to and informs our politics, writes Anubha Sarkar
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Key words: Innovation
‘Innovation’ is often invoked as a byword for progress within capitalism, but as Joe Mayall explains, such progress does not serve everyone equally
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Another England – review
The left has long been skeptical of embracing English identity, but Caroline Lucas offers a radical alternative vision of Englishness divorced from right wing nationalism writes Tommy Sissons
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Against Landlords – review
Nick Bano’s book is a much needed intervention in the struggle against Britain’s powerful landlord class, writes Eilidh Keay
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Autism is Not a Disease – review
Despite some shortcomings, Jodie Hare’s book is an invaluable introduction to neurodiversity as a liberatory movement writes Beauty Dhlamini
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Machine unlearning: AI, neoliberalism and universities in crisis
Could Artificial Intelligence render the university obsolete? Katy Hayward explores what is lost when human thought is made subordinate to the machine