Blog – Page 97 – Culture Matters

Capitalism, Communism, Christianity – and Christmas

20 December 2018 / 592

Roland Boer answers questions about religion, capitalism, Christian communism – and Christmas. Culture Matters is also giving away a downloadable PDF of Professor Boer’s new ebook on Christian communism,... Continue reading

Roland Boer

Fiction

Dishwasher hands

17 December 2018 / 369

Dishwasher hands by Craig Campbell Saturday nights at the Dilshad were the worst. People let off steam in Hartlepool in the worst ways possible, like stray bullets... Continue reading

Craig Campbell

Cultural Commentary

Caught Doing Social Work? – socially engaged art and the dangers of becoming social workers

14 December 2018 / 352

Stephen Pritchard offers some provocations on themes around instrumentalism of the arts and artists, gentrification and artwashing in the age of neoliberal capitalism. Many people in the artworld... Continue reading

Stephen Pritchard

Fiction

The Baton: a short story by Jan Woolf

11 December 2018 / 356

Marx Memorial Library is hosting a series of readings from left-wing fiction writers. Each month a fiction writer, dramatist or poet will read from current work and... Continue reading

Jan Woolf

Visual Arts

America at Work: the photography of Lewis Hine

6 December 2018 / 464

John Green reviews a new book about the life and work of Lewis W. Hine, one of the founders of of U.S. social photography. Lewis Hine’s iconic... Continue reading

John Green

Fiction

Decolonising the mind: the life and work of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

5 December 2018 / 311

Jenny Farrell celebrates the life and work of the African Marxist writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Ngũgĩ turned 80 this year. He was born into colonial Kenya in 1938... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist: A perfect expression of gross inequality

5 December 2018 / 501

Martin Gollan argues that what we see when we look at this Hockney painting is a perfect expression of the gross inequalities created by neoliberal capitalism. What do... Continue reading

Martin Gollan

Visual Arts

Universal Credit: Apocalypse

1 December 2018 / 316

Martin Gollan

Visual Arts

Universal Credit: It’s not true!

27 November 2018 / 331

For Unite’s Day of Action against Universal Credit, 1 December. Continue reading

Martin Gollan

Books

Ruses and Fuses

21 November 2018 / 347

£8 (plus £1.50 p. and p.) ISBN 978-1-912710-09-6 Ruses and Fuses, by Fran Lock with collages by Steev Burgess, is the follow-up collection to Muses and Bruises. ... Continue reading

Mike Quille

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