Tag: cultural critique
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Listen: https://ift.tt/UnwWA5d Eric Newman speaks with Colette Shade about her book “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything.” Revisiting the strange hallmarks of that era–remember inflatable furniture and phones without touch… more ›
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Tommy Robinson tweets an image of soldiers walking into the ocean on D-Day. Britain First’s co-leader produces imagery of Muslim men laughing at sad white girls on public transport. https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/ more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/hnBIysb What is a monster? Why do humans create stories about otherness? What does it tell you about a society that engages in monster making? Our guest today is… more ›
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Tilda Swinton has given a speech at the Berlin film festival in which she called out the “the astonishing savagery of spite, state-perpetrated and internationally enabled mass murder”. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/14/tilda-swinton-berlin-film-festival more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/2cr6L1s Matthew Sweet with art critic TJ Clark, who has written about the importance of repeated viewing for appreciating a work of art; philosopher and film historian Lucy Bolton,… more ›
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https://ift.tt/sViJeET For episode 182, Elia, Anna, and Dana are joined by author, scholar, and activist Naomi Klein to discuss her most recent book, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World,… more ›
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https://ift.tt/HmRbYE9 In this PPF+ bonus to accompany our summer fictions season David discusses Michel Houellebecq’s explosive political and intellectual satire Submission (2015). Published seven years before the French Presidential election of 2022 it… more ›
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https://ift.tt/BWMto86 This week on Sinica, I speak with Nicole Hong and Michael Rothfeld, both investigative reporters at the New York Times, about a series of stories they've done, stretching between… more ›