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Tag: culture
Trash Cultures
Ash Sarkar and James Butler are joined on #NovaraFM by Bridget Minamore and Joseph Guthrie to discuss "low" culture, "high" theory, memory and resistance.
Frozen Screen: Why Are Progressives So Reluctant to Engage With Gaming?
Video games are here to stay - why won't we give afford them the same importance as other cultural objects? Simon Saunders continues our Focus on video games and politics.
Towards A Radical Critique of Cultural Appropriation
With the centre-left suffering regular electoral defeat, liberal defences of anti-racism have shown themselves insufficient. Starting with cultural appropriation, how can we move beyond such a politics, and begin to restore the movement's radical roots?
3 Reasons the Campaign to #SaveFabric is Political
Having had its licence revoked, the iconic nightclub Fabric has started crowdfunding its legal challenge. Many have been hasty to point to council cuts or gentrification to explain the closure, but there's a wider political context at play.
Knowledge is Power: Lessons from Dystopian Fiction
32 years since George Orwell’s predictions of the future failed to come to pass, and our world seems to be getting more dystopian every day - but of all society's dystopian elements, which should worry us most?
Is it time to abolish masculinity?
With men responsible for so many of the world’s problems you could be forgiven for thinking there is no hope left for masculinity. But what is masculinity, how can it be understood and taken apart for better? Shon Faye gives their two cents. What do you think? Comment on the hashtag #ShonThisWay
Feminist Fictions
This International Women’s Day Ash Sarkar lists her favourite fictional feminist heroines
Identity Politics: What’s Your Position?
On this week's show Ash Sarkar, James Butler and Aaron Bastani answer your questions in an #asknovara dedicated to culture, identity and politics.
Is Political Art Good?
On this week's show James Butler and Ash Sarkar discuss the potential for art in articulating radical politics.
Arts Strike Now! 5 Reasons Cultural Workers are Boycotting the Zabludowicz Collection
Amid the erosion of public arts funding, the private Zabludowicz Collection has stepped up as the post-austerity arts pathbreaker. Notorious for its complicity in Israeli militarism, it is now the target of a boycott by cultural workers.
When Music Mattered: 6 Records That Helped Shape Red Wedge
The last couple of weeks have seen a variously amusing, cringeworthy and angering back-and-forth between Nigel Farage and an assortment of comedians of varying quality. It has been said that comedians are now the mouthpieces of mainstream politics, where once musicians were the stalwarts of the resistance. This piece revisits Red Wedge, a musician-led campaign that hoped to defeat Thatcher.
