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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Puppetry thrives amid war in Ukraine
The Odesa Puppet Theatre plays a vital role for Ukrainians facing the violence and trauma of war, explain Nataliia Borodina and Matt Smith
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Game on! It’s time to decolonise play
Mary Flanagan examines the sordid history of how colonialism has shaped the games we play – and how we can build play spaces free of it
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How to stop getting played
Games and play are everywhere under neoliberal capitalism. But they can also show us the way to a better future, argues Keir Milburn
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Big Tech: A new platform for global capitalism
Over the past 30 years, tech companies have become leading institutions of global capitalism. They give a new face to old challenges – and new potential for mass resistance, writes Jeremy Gilbert
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Red Pepper: how it all began
The founders of Red Pepper – Tony Cook, Dee Searle, Clifford Singer and Hilary Wainwright – reflect on the birth of the magazine in 1994
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Shattered Nation – review
Dorling’s book offers a damning portrait of a crumbling Britain, writes Phil O’Sullivan
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Four quarters of radical Birmingham
The ‘Gramscian project’ of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, established in 1964 by Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart at the University of Birmingham, left an indelible mark on the city. Josh Allen surveys its enduring radical edge
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