I volunteered to record a lecture on ‘Postmodernism’ after Tory minister Liz Truss denounced it this week. This is the long version. The short, 1-hour version immediately precedes this one in the feed, so feel free to skip back to that one instead ;). If you like this and want to show some appreciation, please […]

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What is (or was) ‘Postmodernism’? – 3 hour version!

I volunteered to record a lecture on ‘Postmodernism’ after Tory minister Liz Truss denounced it this week. This is the long version. The long, 3-hour version follows next. I wouldn’t bother listening to this if you plan to listen to the long one. If you like this please throw a quid or two in the […]

What is (or was) Postmodernism? – 1 hour version

  In January 2019 we were planning a public event with Anna Minton and Richard Seymour, discussing the aftermath of the December 2019 general election and the then-ongoing Labour Party leadership election. We had to cancel the event because of a problem with the venue and instead recorded a conversation between Anna, Richard and Jeremy […]

The Aftermath of Defeat: a Conversation with Anna Minton and Richard Seymour

The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonising Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism with Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias     Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to “connect” through digital means. But this convenience is not free-it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through […]

The Costs of Connection

    High Weirdness with Erik Davis, Debra Benita Shaw and Jeremy Gilbert Presented in Association with #ACFM – the Home of the Weird Left Since the 1990s, Erik Davis has been charting the multiple interfaces between consciousness-expansion, technological trickery, drug cultures and social change: in books such as Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in […]

High Weirdness

With Will Davies, and Jeremy Gilbert    What on Earth is happening to British politics, culture and society? What is at the root of the present crisis of political representation and objective knowledge? Should we care about the crisis of liberal democracy? Is the internet a powerful new tool of democratic engagement, or is it just […]

Britain’s Nervous Breakdown: What is Actually Happening?

With Debra Benita Shaw and Alberto Duman Vitruvian Man, Leonardo’s perfectly proportioned human based on the recommendations of a Roman architect who thought that strong and stable (and beautiful) buildings would guarantee a strong and stable state, still provides the template for architectural design. What this suggests is not only that the built environment is designed […]

Vitruvian Mantology: Architecture and Posthuman Politics

With Kojo Koram, Mike Jay, Debra Benita Shaw and Jeremy Gilbert     It is now a matter of historical record that when Nixon and his aides officially launched their ‘war on drugs’ in the late 1960s, their express intention was to criminalise black radicalism and the counterculture. But the link between racism and the drug […]

The War on Drugs: Race, Class, Colonialism and the Politics of Pleasures

With Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the world of work has been the central political  battleground. What work is, who has to do it, who gets to do it and who gets rewarded for it are the most fundamental issues not just for trade-unionists and economists: but for […]

After Work: The Fight for Free Time

With Natalie Fenton and Tom Mills The institutions of  the modern media are supposed to serve the public interest: entertaining, educating and informing to the betterment of all. We all know that isn’t how it works. So what can we do about it? How can we challenge the concentration of information in the hands of […]

The People vs The Media: Power and Democracy in the Public Sphere

With Sarah Banet-Weiser and Sara R. Farris Once an insurgent movement against patriarchy, feminism now finds itself occupying a far more complex position in the world. Powerful institutions,  major corporations and almost all political parties – even the nationalist, xenophobic right – routinely pay lip-service to the goal of sexual equality. What are we to […]

Whose Empowerment? Feminism, Neoliberalism and Nationalism

Sorry for the poor sound quality on the recording here – we’ve figured out the technical causes and should be back to normal next week! You should be able to find a video you can watch at http://www.antiuniversity.org/Culture-Power-Politics-course-2019 As the world moves online, politics does too. Despite anxieties about the dangers and limitations of ‘clicktivism’,  […]

Digital Politics

  Sorry for the poor sound quality on the recording here. It’s listenable, but you can also find a video you can watch at http://www.antiuniversity.org/Culture-Power-Politics-course-2019 What do the members of today’s ruling elite think they are doing, and why? What stories do they tell themselves, and us, to justify their right to rule? Why has almost […]

The Deserving Rich?

Keir Milburn discusses his new book Generation Left with Lynne Segal, Jeremy Gilbert, and many others. For information about the culture, power, politics seminar series, go to: https://culturepowerpolitics.org.

Generation Left

With Alex Williams. In this session Alex and Jeremy go into more detail on some of the key conceptual arguments of their forthcoming book Hegemony Now, talking about platforms as a modality of power, the nature of material and social interests, and the affective dimension of hegemonic relations. 

Hegemony Now: Power in the Twenty-First Century (2)

Recordings of a regular seminar on radical theory, culture and politics led by Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London.

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