“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.
Is there a way forward for Brewdog? James Watt has stood down as CEO of Brewdog after seventeen years. He has become ‘captain’ and a non-executive Director.... Continue reading
In the closing Winter Lecture for the London Review of Books, Terry Eagleton discusses the origin and uses of culture. Half-way through the piece, Fran Lock and Alan... Continue reading
Jon Baldwin and Brett Gregory analyse Labour’s Plan for the Arts, Culture and Creative Industries On the 13th March 2024 Bracknell News reported that Sir Keir Starmer... Continue reading
Jon Baldwin reviews the new book by Gregor Gall, Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero (Manchester University Press, 2024) Mick Lynch is a 60-year-old London... Continue reading
Sean Ledwith introduces his new book The past is never dead. It’s not even past. – William Faulkner The essays are written in the spirit of Leon Trotsky’s... Continue reading
HBO’s The Sympathizer, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, opens with a quote: “All wars are fought twice, once on the battlefield and the... Continue reading
Peaceweavers – Peacemakers, peace activists and radical advocates for justice. Is a peaceful world achievable? Are war and conflict an inevitable part of human nature – or... Continue reading
Dennis Broe previews some upcoming TV series. Image above: Machine, now streaming on Arte What follows are a few global series worth watching in the coming months, along... Continue reading
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. – W.H. Auden, First Things First, 1956 If we regard the British Isles as a body of nations then... Continue reading
Dennis Broe explains the decline in the quality as well as quantity of streamed series, and the exploitative use of Artifical Intelligence by the industry. Photo above: SORA’s... Continue reading