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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 ageThe 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,...
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