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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Value of Culture (a reluctant tribute to the BBC)
As a cultural studies scholar, Jeremy Gilbert was sharpening his daggers for Melvyn Bragg well before his BBC...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMoving on from the Market Society: culture (and cultural studies) in a post-democratic age
The politics of the market has given us individual freedoms, but inhibited any potent form of collectivity. We...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA country mansion and a wireless connection: Raymond Williams and the future of transformative education
As formal education in Britain faces commodification, networks of informal participative learning are flourishing....
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Published in: openEconomyThe Third Industrial Revolution - a response to the Economist
The Third Revolution by nature of its high mechanisation and non-labour intensity means an ever larger proportion of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKForget the ‘golden age’ of capitalism: there’s no return, and our future can be better
Talk on the British left of a return to a Keynesian, pre-monetarist system is historically untenable. Aaron Peters...
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Published in: HomeWhy has the Internet changed so little?
The Internet Age was meant to change everything - internationalism, commerce, journalism, government - all would be...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKReflections on Britain's student movement
This exchange revisits the student movement that erupted in Britain over the winter of 2010-2011. It produced a new...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK'An excess of democracy'
Occupy and the direct action movements of today have much in common with the radical movements of the 1960s/70s. Can...
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Published in: HomeThe Precariat: why it needs deliberative democracy
To arrest the drift to social engineering, the voice of those subject to the steering should be inside the...
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Published in: HomeThe Long and the Quick of Revolution
This is the Raymond Williams Annual Lecture for 2011, coinciding with the publication of a new 50th anniversary...
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Published in: HomeWe live in revolutionary times ... but what does this mean?
Encouraged by the Spanish movement for ‘Real Democracy Now!’, the Occupy network and above all the Arab Awakening,...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job