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AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - November 18: Official Portraits for the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall November 18, 2019 AUCKLAND, New Zealand. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/ http://marktantrum.com)

Culture and barbarism: the work of Walter Benjamin

15 March 2023 / 513

Culture Matters is pleased to present this short film by Professor Esther Leslie, Carl Joyce and Mike Quille. Professor Leslie’s text is below. Walter Benjamin was interested... Continue reading

Esther Leslie

TV, internet and other media

Conditioning the national discourse: self-censorship at the BBC

15 March 2023 / 352

The news that the BBC will not broadcast an episode of the new David Attenborough flagship British wildlife documentary Wild Isles indicates the power of acceptable and... Continue reading

Stuart Cartland

Poetry

Five Ways Of Thinking About Society and Politics

4 March 2023 / 317

FIVE WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT SOCIETY & POLITICS by David Betteridge, with drawing above by Bob Starrett Three of the five ways of thinking expressed beloware overly... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Fiction

‘Siblings’: the search for a new humanity through socialism in the GDR

24 February 2023 / 379

“Siblings” by German Democratic Republic writer Brigitte Reiman has just been published in English translation by Penguin, in its series of classic international literature. It comes sixty... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Cultural Commentary

Why Birkbeck Needs To Nurture English Literature

18 February 2023 / 346

Introduction by Fran Lock This story both is and isn’t about Birkbeck. On the one hand, it is absolutely particular to an iconic institution that recently celebrated... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Punches Full of Peace and Phones Full of Tomorrows: Two poems by Fred Voss

11 February 2023 / 293

Punches Full of Peace by Fred Voss Fist-knockshave replaced handshakesin this machine shopinstead of squeezing palms we hold out fistsand bump knuckles in the airbetween usI guess... Continue reading

Fred Voss

Theatre

Brendan Behan: playwright, poet, novelist, socialist and republican

6 February 2023 / 398

On the 100th anniversary of Behan’s birth in 1923, Jenny Farrell celebrates his life and work. Photo above by William Murphy Brendan Behan was arguably one of... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Capital

1 February 2023 / 345

níl súil ina cheanndhá pholl dhú’ ag stánadh orainnníl aon anam ann géaga leata mar bhultúr chun barróg a bhreith orainn look, he has no eyesjust two... Continue reading

Gabriel Rosenstock

Visual Arts

A Cultural Dispatch From War-Torn Europe: Art, Theatre and Music in Vienna

28 January 2023 / 387

It’s hardly the ruined, devastated postwar rubble that was the backdrop of the most famous film shot in Vienna, The Third Man (see image above), but in... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Poetry

We Are Here To Stay: Poems by Tawfiq Zayyad

25 January 2023 / 334

At the start of 2023, the state of Israel installed a new government. This new ultranationalist religious cabinet included Itamar Ben-Gvir, a lawyer who had already established... Continue reading

Nick Moss

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