In this instalment of Our Culture, we explore the contradictions at the heart of one of the world’s most profitable and precarious creative industries: video games. Scott... Continue reading
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Mike Quille continues the ‘Our Culture’ series with a summary of the Culture Matters mission; an overview of the general problems in cultural provision, defined broadly to... Continue reading
By Stefan Szczelkun It was a pragmatic thought. Could working-class artists be made more visible in the world through using published books? Could they slip onto the shelves... Continue reading
Continuing the Our Culture series, John Pateman exposes the hidden class politics of Britain’s public libraries. Far from being neutral spaces of learning, he argues they were... Continue reading
In our ongoing Our Culture Series, we examine how art and media reflect, and too often distort, the realities of working-class life in Britain. In this essay,... Continue reading
Our Culture is a new series from Culture Matters exploring the relationship between culture and capitalism through a Marxist and dialectical lens. The series investigates how capitalism... Continue reading
A Brief History of Sentimentality, Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1-3994-21881-1, £20 Soft is both a hard and a slippery book to review. It is interesting, though, to observe Ferdinand Mount, third Baronet... Continue reading
By Lydia Unsworth There are flags all over the high street. Union Jacks, St George’s flags, and ones printed with text such as VE Day and VJ... Continue reading
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro. Verso, 2025 By Jon Baldwin In a recent paper, Pre-Emptive/ Neo-Fascist Capitalism, Marxism and... Continue reading
By Nick Moss We started a poetry and open mic night at the Cockpit Theatre in Marylebone, London NW8 after we organized a “farewell festival” for Smokestack... Continue reading
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