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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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In this previously unpublished text, written in 1961, Stuart Hall surveys rhythmic interplays of race, culture, love and power in the film Shadows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
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Blockchain Radicals – review
Cryptocurrency and blockchain might be here for the long haul, but Dávila’s book shows how they can be repurposed by the left, writes David Z. Morris
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Obituary: John Pilger, 1939-2023
Taking an unashamedly left-wing perspective, Pilger’s emphasis was always on using painstaking research and analysis to tell the stories we need to hear, writes Dee Searle
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Family Abolition – review
O’Brien offers a radical and exciting argument for a liberative approach to care, writes Matt Seidel
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Art and survival in Argentina’s Memory Museum
As Argentina marks 40 years of democracy, Cecilia Sosa introduces the reflections of Alejandra Naftal, former director of ESMA, dictatorship survivor and lifetime witness