Culture, Power, Politics is both a podcast and an open seminar on culture, power and politics.
You can read more about who is doing it and why you should help them further down this page.
You can join our low-volume email newsletter / mailing list here.
And you can learn about, subscribe or listen to the podcast here.
If you want to know more about the live seminar series, or the general background to the project, click here.
If you want to know what live or online events we have coming up, click here. If there are no events listed in the future on that page, it means we have nothing planned right now. Join the mailing list to find out when we next do.
If you want to know about our ongoing online seminar series, From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality, click here.
If you can support us with a small regular donation, please do so here.
If you’d like to make a one-time donation, please do so here.
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About Culture, Power, Politics
The main activity of the project is Culture, Power, Politics: a podcast about culture, power and politics.
This is produced entirely for free, with no external support, by an academic with a world-class reputation, who is nonetheless only employed part-time (because the British university system is in a state of deep crisis).
Over recent decades, much of this kind of knowledge has been driven out of our universities (except for those attending a few elite institutions), and entirely driven out of our public sphere. University programmes in sociology, history, literature and philosophy have closed down in droves. The radical tradition of cultural studies, that seeks to understand contemporary social change in all of its aspects, has been almost completely eliminated within the formal educational sector. Mainstream media lost interest in all this stuff a long time ago.
Culture, Power, Politics started as a series of live, in-person seminars held in East London, that the host Jeremy Gilbert occasionally made recordings of. It has since evolved into a regular podcast offering listeners a range of content that is very hard to get for free anywhere else: from immediate commentary on UK politics, informed by expert historical and theoretical knowledge knowledge, to discussions of the latest developments in cultural studies, social theory and politics, to recordings of online seminars (that anyone is free to attend) with world-class experts in radical political philosophy.
If we are going to keep alive a tradition of lively, critical inquiry into how our world is changing and could be changed, then we’re going to need to keep exploring new ways to create and share information and understanding. Culture, Power, Politics is one such project to try to make radical education and complex understanding available to as many people as possible.
If you have the funds and can chip in to help with ongoing costs it would be really appreciated. We only have one tier of membership which once per month costs less than the price of a pint in many pubs.
Right now there isn’t any extra content for patrons, because we want this material to be as freely available as possible, but we are getting close to the point where I might start producing some, if people keep contributing enough for it to become plausible for me to be able to commit the time to doing so. For now though, I would ask people to consider contributing just because this is a worthwhile political project to support.
Thank you!