03 February, 2011 // Category: Philosophy and Theory
Nearly a century and a half ago, The Anthropological Society of London was founded with the stated aim of being a free and general analytical forum for the investigation of “the science of the whole nature of Man”. Their first president, James Hunt, addressed the inaugural meeting of the...
21 December, 2010 // Category: Activism, Media
Joss Hands is Senior Lecturer in Communication, Film and Media and Co-Director of the Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. In his latest book “@ Is For Activism”, he examines the transformation of politics through digital media, including digital...
09 September, 2010 // Category: Culture, Foreign policy
The French artist Thierry Noir (one of the first artists to paint the Berlin Wall in the late 1970s when graffiti culture was still in its infancy), when questioned by Berlin residents as to why he was striving to make the wall beautiful, would reply: ”We are not trying to make the wall...
24 August, 2010 // Category: Culture, Media
New Left Project talks to Matthew Alford, author of “Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy”, about the myth of liberal Hollywood and the power of entertainment as propaganda. Criticism of the media (not just the movie industry) is often seen as simply a matter of political...
31 May, 2010 // Category: Foreign policy
New Left Project’s James Quinney talks to John Newsinger, author of The Blood Never Dried, about the brutal realities of British empire - past and present. The idea of Britain’s basic benevolence in the world seems almost unquestionable in our culture. Why do you think, as a nation, we have...
28 April, 2010 // Category: Media
Julian Petley is professor of Screen Media and Journalism at Brunel University and amongst numerous other publications, co-author of “Culture Wars: the Media and the British Left”. He talks to New Left Project’s James Quinney about the mainstream media’s role in the upcoming general...
30 November, 2009 // Category: Economy
Writing just after the Second World War, Emery Reves in his immensely popular Anatomy of Peace, made some moderate observations on the nature of Western state capitalist economies that he felt were uncontroversial: “Theoretically, complete freedom of competition in economic life is thinkable only...
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