“Education is, before everything else, the process of giving to the ordinary members of society its full common meanings, and the skills that will enable them to amend these meanings, in the light of their personal and common experience.”
Raymond Williams, ‘Culture is Ordinary’
Culture is indeed ordinary, it includes most human activities: the arts, religion, sport, science and technology, TV/ radio and other media, the internet, eating and drinking, etc. etc. All of these topics have political dimensions involving struggles and negotiations over meanings and values. On this hub are articles on cultural activities apart from the arts, which are to be found on the arts hub, surprisingly enough.
Brett Gregory interviews Giedre Kubiliute, principal author of Protests and the Media: A Critical Event Studies Exploration into the Future of Protest (Routledge, 2024) BG: Hi, my... Continue reading
Dr. Matt Alford writes about the media campaign against George Galloway In early March, the late night UK comedy show, ‘The Last Leg’, responded to Respect leader... Continue reading
Fran Lock gives the thumbs-down to This Town. Image above: Bardon Quinn (Ben Rose), Gregory Williams (Jordan Bolger), Dante Williams (Levi Brown) (Image: BBC/Banijay Rights/Kudos) So far there’s... Continue reading
Libraries and communism are like Marx and Engels – you can’t have one without the other. Marx did some of his most important work in the British... Continue reading
Indelibly racist Roald Dahl was called upon by Hollywood profit-brokers again last year for yet another adaptation of his 1964 children’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.... Continue reading
Mark Perryman gets to grips with Nike v St. George, with image above by Hugh Tisdall “This virtue signalling, namby-pamby, pearl-clutching, woke nonsense must stop now. Any... Continue reading
Dennis Broe outlines 3 Body Problem’s imperialist problem. Image above: the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a moment of chaos In Culture and Imperialism, Palestinian scholar Edward Said details... Continue reading
Jon Baldwin reviews some current thinking on climate change, Marx and the radical left Assuming that the free market and contemporary democratic states are not up to... Continue reading
All Hail the Uni Party: Democans and Republicrats As the range of debate between the two parties in the U.S. shrinks, election season becomes a time of... Continue reading
Dennis Broe discusses the opposition between corporate and alternative media, now and in the 1950s. Image above: Charlotta Bass, editor of The California Eagle Today with the wars on... Continue reading