Blog – Page 114 – Culture Matters

A worker reads and asks questions

25 June 2017 / 381

The recent election results showed a stunning level of support for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party’s anti-austerity policies. Working people are clearly starting to ask more... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Cultural Commentary

The Power of Poetry in Dark Times

22 June 2017 / 435

Sandy Grant proposes that in times like these, it is poets who speak the most serious words of them all. Her article is followed by a poem by... Continue reading

Sandy Grant

Films

Not the Feelies

22 June 2017 / 375

Jenny Farrell explains how Leviathan reveals the nature of capitalism. The dystopias of the mid-20th century, Brave New World (1932) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), described with astonishing... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Staring Back

8 June 2017 / 366

Staring Back by Manash Firaq Bhattarcharjee The eye you see is notan eye because you see it;it is an eye because it sees you.~ Antonio Machado, ‘Proverbs... Continue reading

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

Fiction

Radical Children’s Literature

25 May 2017 / 432

Julia Mickenberg discusses some recently published radical children’s literature. As Philip Nel and I suggested in “Radical Children’s Literature Now!“, the contemporary field of radical children’s literature... Continue reading

Julia Mickenberg

Visual Arts

Banners for Spain

22 May 2017 / 373

Nick Wright reviews the current exhibition of banners produced by Hammersmith Communist Party in the 1930s, to help the Spanish Republic. Legend has it that while Picasso... Continue reading

Nick Wright

Cultural Commentary

The corruption of art and culture by corporate capital

18 May 2017 / 324

Mike Quille traces the links between corporate sponsorship and the distortion of history and art, in two recent exhibitions. How do the ruling classes manipulate art and... Continue reading

Mike Quille

TV, internet and other media

How the media shapes our cultural ideals of body shape

16 May 2017 / 628

Melissa Oldham charts how media representation of ideal body shapes, driven by the need to maximise profits, leads to negative body images in women and men. Feminine... Continue reading

Melissa Oldham

Clothing & Fashion

Why Fashion Matters

16 May 2017 / 586

Dr. Anthony Sullivan explains why and how fashion matters, in an era when‘fast fashion’ highlights the absurd waste of precious energy and resources by capitalism’s ‘favourite child’.... Continue reading

Anthony Sullivan

Visual Arts

Women’s Art

16 May 2017 / 488

PL Henderson introduces the #WOMENSART project, which demonstrates how women have continued to create art, often as radicals, rebels and pioneers, despite the social, cultural and economic... Continue reading

PL Henderson

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