Blog – Page 127 – Culture Matters

What’s Happened to Sport?

14 February 2016 / 352

Professor Tony Collins starts a series of articles about the relationship between sport and capitalism with an introduction to the history of sport. It’s been a rough... Continue reading

Tony Collins

Films

Dark Light

4 February 2016 / 368

John Smith, the avant garde film maker, has kindly offered Culture Matters his short film, Dark Light. Below, he introduces it. The only time I’ve visited a communist... Continue reading

John Smith

Religion

Religion is the Opium of the People

3 February 2016 / 367

What did Marx mean by his vivid metaphor? Roland Boer continues his series of articles on Marxism and religion with an examination of the historical, textual and... Continue reading

Roland Boer

Cultural Commentary

Counter Culture, Propaganda And Political Consciousness

29 January 2016 / 500

Chris Jury traces the relations between culture, oppositional consciousness and class struggles in recent history. “It may be good to have power based on arms but it... Continue reading

Chris Jury

Fiction

Keep Calm and Nostalgic

27 January 2016 / 377

Ross Bradshaw keeps calm while reviewing Owen Hatherley’s latest book of essays on nostalgia. This set of essays starts with the well-known image, in Gill Sans type,... Continue reading

Ross Bradshaw

Visual Arts

A Comedy of Ideas: The Cartoons of Bob Starrett

27 January 2016 / 379

David Betteridge introduces some of the cartoons of Bob Starrett, the official cartoonist of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-in of 1971-2. When we look at Starrett’s cartoons,... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Ghostly Communism – Provocative Documents for Thought

27 January 2016 / 1451

Several pieces on both the arts and culture hubs express, creatively and critically, what communism might mean. It’s touched on in the poetry of Salena Godden, David... Continue reading

Andrew Brown

Poetry

Burnsiana Scroll back from the cosmos,To inner space.The mind’s micro-structureNanoscientists mind-mappingThe brain’s hundred billion neurons,Its thousand trillion connections,Processing 0.1 quadrillion thoughts per second.Vastly more sophisticatedThan any computer.What... Continue reading

Rab Wilson

The Real Robert Burns

23 January 2016 / 677

My word you can’t know Burns unless you can hate the Lockharts and all the estimable bourgeoisand upper classes as he really did – the narrow gutted... Continue reading

Norrie Paton

Poetry

An Alternative Burns Supper

23 January 2016 / 314

David Betteridge presents two poems to help you enjoy an alternative Burns supper. At An Alternative Burns Supper His short life and his fertilitylift his perfection... Continue reading

David Betteridge

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