Hyperreality by Keiichi Matsuda By Stuart Cartland Jean Baudrillard explored the concept of hyperreality in the 1980s, describing a condition in which reality and its representations become... Continue reading
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Category: Cultural Commentary
By Jenny Farrell It is 1890. While Britain is aggressively expanding its global empire, its domestic industries are increasingly dominated by mechanised production and growing concentration of... Continue reading
Mark Perryman’s annual selection this year ranges from Eric Hobsbawm to Rocking against Racism Emile Chabal The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian In... Continue reading
Commons image By Tarique Ahmed Culture is often treated as something we inherit: a language spoken by our grandparents, food prepared in our homes, festivals celebrated by... Continue reading
Nation of Strangers is available here By Jim Aitken For a number of years now Ece Temelkuran has been warning us about the advance of fascism. She... Continue reading
Refugees by Konštantín Bauer By Omar Sabbagh How should we view the past? How do we do justice to the stories of the vanquished? How might the... Continue reading
Commons image By John Pateman My first article, Decolonising Public Libraries, explained the history and context of public libraries. This second article, Building a Library Campaign, covers... Continue reading
In this edition of Our Culture Jack Clarke takes us on a tour of Salford and the stops includes several buildings that have been abandoned. Here Jack... Continue reading
Airtins is available here By Geoff Bottoms For those of us who are “sassenachs” this collection of poems in the Scots language can be a challenge for... Continue reading
The book will be available here By John Pateman Public libraries are not what they appear to be. The public library is often presented as a safe,... Continue reading
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