#culturaltheory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #culturaltheory, aggregated by home.social.
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1/4 Tried to watch the Radical with Amol Rajan Today #Podcast for the #BBC. The episode on social mobility with Joe Seddon, founder of #zerogravity
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002rgj9
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002f1d0/radical-with-amol-rajanTruly dreadful: in the sense of being both bad and frightening.
Apparently, there are some #universities just not worth attending and some #university degree courses not worth taking – because they fail to deliver sufficient economic benefit for both society and individual students-as-consumers, and can therefore be judged as being of ‘poor quality’. In many cases, it seems, doing an apprenticeship is preferable to attending a ‘less selective’ university.
What, exactly, is radical about this? Especially when one considers that, historically, it has been at such universities that many people from working- and lower-middle-class backgrounds have encountered radical economic and political ideas, often through fields such as media and #culturalstudies and #CulturalTheory
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1/4 Tried to watch the Radical with Amol Rajan Today #Podcast for the #BBC. The episode on social mobility with Joe Seddon, founder of #zerogravity
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002rgj9
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002f1d0/radical-with-amol-rajanTruly dreadful: in the sense of being both bad and frightening.
Apparently, there are some #universities just not worth attending and some #university degree courses not worth taking – because they fail to deliver sufficient economic benefit for both society and individual students-as-consumers, and can therefore be judged as being of ‘poor quality’. In many cases, it seems, doing an apprenticeship is preferable to attending a ‘less selective’ university.
What, exactly, is radical about this? Especially when one considers that, historically, it has been at such universities that many people from working- and lower-middle-class backgrounds have encountered radical economic and political ideas, often through fields such as media and #culturalstudies and #CulturalTheory
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1/4 Tried to watch the Radical with Amol Rajan Today #Podcast for the #BBC. The episode on social mobility with Joe Seddon, founder of #zerogravity
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002rgj9
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002f1d0/radical-with-amol-rajanTruly dreadful: in the sense of being both bad and frightening.
Apparently, there are some #universities just not worth attending and some #university degree courses not worth taking – because they fail to deliver sufficient economic benefit for both society and individual students-as-consumers, and can therefore be judged as being of ‘poor quality’. In many cases, it seems, doing an apprenticeship is preferable to attending a ‘less selective’ university.
What, exactly, is radical about this? Especially when one considers that, historically, it has been at such universities that many people from working- and lower-middle-class backgrounds have encountered radical economic and political ideas, often through fields such as media and #culturalstudies and #CulturalTheory
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1/4 Tried to watch the Radical with Amol Rajan Today #Podcast for the #BBC. The episode on social mobility with Joe Seddon, founder of #zerogravity
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002rgj9
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002f1d0/radical-with-amol-rajanTruly dreadful: in the sense of being both bad and frightening.
Apparently, there are some #universities just not worth attending and some #university degree courses not worth taking – because they fail to deliver sufficient economic benefit for both society and individual students-as-consumers, and can therefore be judged as being of ‘poor quality’. In many cases, it seems, doing an apprenticeship is preferable to attending a ‘less selective’ university.
What, exactly, is radical about this? Especially when one considers that, historically, it has been at such universities that many people from working- and lower-middle-class backgrounds have encountered radical economic and political ideas, often through fields such as media and #culturalstudies and #CulturalTheory
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1/4 Tried to watch the Radical with Amol Rajan Today #Podcast for the #BBC. The episode on social mobility with Joe Seddon, founder of #zerogravity
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002rgj9
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002f1d0/radical-with-amol-rajanTruly dreadful: in the sense of being both bad and frightening.
Apparently, there are some #universities just not worth attending and some #university degree courses not worth taking – because they fail to deliver sufficient economic benefit for both society and individual students-as-consumers, and can therefore be judged as being of ‘poor quality’. In many cases, it seems, doing an apprenticeship is preferable to attending a ‘less selective’ university.
What, exactly, is radical about this? Especially when one considers that, historically, it has been at such universities that many people from working- and lower-middle-class backgrounds have encountered radical economic and political ideas, often through fields such as media and #culturalstudies and #CulturalTheory
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“Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components.” — Umberto Eco
2025 feels like an Eco novel: Normal persons everywhere.
Meet Schmalk’s patron saint — the man, the myth, the legend.
#Schmalk #UmbertoEco #Culture #Philosophy #MediaCritique #Postmodernism #InternetCulture #CulturalTheory
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Public Lecture | Master MUSIC IN SOCIETY Lecture
CREATIVE WORK: FROM CRITIQUES OF ‘DIVERSITY’ TO ATTACKS ON DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION
Rosalind Gill (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
Correspondent: Christina Scharff (King’s College London, UK)20 November 2025 | 18:00
mdw Campus
Banquet HaalMore info: 👉 https://www.mdw.ac.at/ims/events/lecture-creative-work
#creativework #culturalwork #diversity #equity #inclusion #musicsociology #musicinsociety #culturalsociology #culturaltheory #socialtheory #sociology #culturalstudies #genderstudies #socialsciences #humanities #inequality #inequalities #class #race #ethnicity #gender #feminist #queer #antiracist #music #art #film #television #fashion #architecture #design #mdw
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Public Lecture | Master MUSIC IN SOCIETY Lecture
CREATIVE WORK: FROM CRITIQUES OF ‘DIVERSITY’ TO ATTACKS ON DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION
Rosalind Gill (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
Correspondent: Christina Scharff (King’s College London, UK)20 November 2025 | 18:00
mdw Campus
Banquet HaalMore info: 👉 https://www.mdw.ac.at/ims/events/lecture-creative-work
#creativework #culturalwork #diversity #equity #inclusion #musicsociology #musicinsociety #culturalsociology #culturaltheory #socialtheory #sociology #culturalstudies #genderstudies #socialsciences #humanities #inequality #inequalities #class #race #ethnicity #gender #feminist #queer #antiracist #music #art #film #television #fashion #architecture #design #mdw
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I'm not sure that I see the author's premise "What is wrong with hauntology?" sucessfully brought to a clear conclusion. But, I am generally curious to see folks attempt to seriously engage with the concept of "hauntology" and Mark Fisher's writings.
Perhaps the article is too brief to really get anywhere other than to point out that it's a white, Euro-centric position to be in opposition to other cultural currents. Which may be enough. Perhaps I should go back and re-read Fisher's "Ghosts in My Life".
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How can we conceptually map cultural phenomena?
“Techno-Concepts for the Cultural Field” explores n-dimensional space as a framework for cultural constellations—linking art, media & tech theory in novel ways.
📖 [Open Access] https://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/6/11/96
#DigitalHumanities #CulturalTheory #MediaPhilosophy #HumanComputerInteraction #TechnoConcepts -
"Do Objects Party Alone?" Professor Dorothee Kimmich discusses the curious life of objects in modern literature. What if things around us could speak or live? Her research rethinks the boundary between nature and culture, material and spirit. Join us for an inspiring journey into literature, philosophy, and imagination. 👉 https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/269679 #Podcast #Research #ModernLiterature #CulturalTheory
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"The ghostly emptiness of capitalist realism obscures the potential for collective joy and abundance. Mark Fisher’s writing offers a glimpse of the possibilities that lie beyond the seeming inevitability of the present."
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/mark-fisher-neoliberalism-acid-communism
#CapitalistRealism #MarkFisher #ArtificialScarcity #CulturalTheory
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I couldn't subscribe to all of the the commitments and beliefs of British cultural theorist Mark Fisher, but his jargon free writing is full of insights deserving consideration by all those thinking of themselves as being on the left, even in the most attenuated sense of that term.
Although the section of this essay on Russell Brand has not aged well, the more general arguments about callout culture and neoanarchists are as pertinent as ever.
Thinking of Fisher's premature death in 2017 still occasions grief and a grim recognition of the damage wrought by austerity policies on the health care system.
Exiting the Vampire Castle | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/
#MarkFisher #ExitingTheVampireCastle #Politics #CulturalTheory #CalloutCulture #SocialMedia
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Saiu no último número da Rebeca, revista da @Socine meu artigo sobre Pedro Costa! Obrigado à Bruna Carvalho pela bela tradução! https://rebeca.socine.org.br/1/article/view/1119#cinema #portugal #caboverde #OpenJournals #journals #art #culture #CulturalTheory #theory
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Apparently Horkheimer & Adorno time-travelled to Barnes and Nobel to pick up a copy of
@shoshanazuboff book then disliked it so much they wrote a new text back in 1972 to criticize it and warn people of its future publication. That's some serious commitment to #culturaltheory. #chatgpt #sociology #media #mediatheory #socialtheory #commodon -
I'm happy to announce that my latest edited volume has recently been released by Brill. It's entitled Syed Hussein Alatas and Critical Social Theory: Decolonizing the Captive Mind. Syed Hussein Alatas is not well known in the West, but he was deeply influential on the work of Edward Said.
https://brill.com/display/title/63196
#decolonization #decolonial #CulturalTheory #PoliticalPhilosophy #Sociology #CriticalTheory #Asia #Philosophy #Malaysia #MENA #NewBook #Academicpublishing
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Thought I'd add some #theory hashtags in hope of connecting with others engaging with #CulturalTheory #PoliticalTheory #NonRepresentationalTheory (#NRT) or #philosophy of #geography.
I enjoy discussing #Foucault, #Benjamin, #Arendt, #Deleuze and #Guattari, #Ranciere, #Serres, as well as #feminist #NewMaterialisms, #CriticalRaceTheory, and #intersectionality.
Key theoretical themes include #affect #aesthetics #authority #power #landscape #performance #biopolitics #body #humour #violence #care