Tag: cultural critique

• Against Compression

  July 12, 2025

  Let me not boil it down for you. I rarely gave a thought to that job after leaving it, but I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently. It’s hard… more ›

• Past Present Future: The History of Bad Ideas: Value-Free Tech

  July 7, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/CamAIsW For today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to philosopher Shannon Vallor about the myth that technology can be value free. It’s easy to see… more ›

• Katrina Forrester · ‘I appreciate depreciation’: Dynastic Capitalism

  July 6, 2025

  Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of… https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n12/katrina-forrester/i-appreciate-depreciation more ›

• The Internet’s New Favorite Philosopher

  June 19, 2025

  Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-internets-new-favorite-philosopher more ›

• Challenging the cowboy myth: Paris show revisits Richard Avedon’s iconic ‘In the American West’

  June 15, 2025

  Forty years on, Richard Avedon’s iconic series “In the American West” still resonates with the United States’ current political and social landscape. The New York photographer’s powerful portraits of working-class… more ›

• What is the cure for the West’s individualist worldview? | Aeon Essays

  June 1, 2025

  It runs deeply through the Western outlook, hailed and condemned in equal measures. For a corrective, look to Confucius https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-the-cure-for-the-wests-individualist-worldview?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=054df2db96-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-947a0f3c79-71652312 more ›

• Does Trumpism Have A Future?

  May 24, 2025

  On his Substack, Adam Tooze has a two-parter on “Trump’s futurism,” dealing with whether or not Trump’s movement contains a positive vision of the future. In part, it’s a response… more ›

• “A new age of shamelessness” | Slavoj Žižek on Trump, authoritarians and “the new left”

  April 18, 2025

  Paddy O’Connell speaks to so-called ‘rock star’ philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek, who argues the case for a more “authoritarian” left-leaning leader on the global stage. Newsnight is the… more ›

• The LRB Podcast: Trump’s War by Executive Order

  April 9, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/8XHM6qU Judith Butler and Aziz Rana join Adam Shatz to discuss Donald Trump’s use of executive orders to target birthright citizenship, protest, support of Palestinian rights, academic freedom, constitutionally… more ›

• Past Present Future: PPF Live Film Special: Network w/Helen Lewis

  April 3, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/dc9hxMl We take a brief break from revolutionary ideas for a special live episode of PPF recorded in front of an audience at the Regent Street Cinema in London.… more ›