Culture and Barbarism
Culture and Barbarism
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Novelist and critic Dennis Broe and Cultural Studies and Global Media Raconteur Toby Miller explore The Politics of Culture and The Culture of Politics. Rosa Luxemburg said the choice was between Socialism and Barbarism but perhaps today what we have is Culture And Barbarism.
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Focuses on the intersection of culture and politics with episodes covering topics like the impact of British capitalism on social dynamics, U.S.-Mexico relations in the context of neoliberalism, and the cultural implications of events like the 2028 Olympics, exploring themes of cruelty and dislocation.
Novelist and critic Dennis Broe and Cultural Studies and Global Media Raconteur Toby Miller explore The Politics of Culture and The Culture of Politics. Rosa Luxemburg said the choice was between Socialism and Barbarism but perhaps today what we have is Culture And Barbarism.
Media critic and novelist Dennis Broe describes the lure and the trap of porn and gambling especially on young working-class women and men. These two multibillion dollar industries are examined as knowing how, much like series TV, to activate the addictive process. The standard narrative in porn is then characterised as one about male pleasure in the domination of a powerful woman with its ruling-class ethos located in the Epstein Scandal. Gambling is examined as a now ubiquitous enterprise that has corrupted first sports and now politics with its elite manifestation being Trump insider trading and manipulation of the stock market. We conclude with a reading from Dennis' novel Pornocopia which locates the origin of both phenomena in the mob-controlled Vegas of the 1950s.
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