The recording of my discussion about Defund Culture on Breaking Culture Live is now up on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QbYJ2JwSn4

Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal is available open access on a CC4r basis in a variety of formats: https://www.mediastudies.press/defund-culture-a-radical-proposal

'Drawing on contemporary debates around platform capitalism, cultural #elitism, #openaccess publishing and the crisis of the #humanities, Defund Culture makes the case for a bold rethinking of how cultural production is organised and resourced. Rather than defending existing institutions in their current form — or merely calling for incremental reform — it proposes a strategy of defunding as redistribution: redirecting resources, authority, and legitimacy toward more community-led, experimental, and socially responsive forms of cultural practice.'

#DefundCulture
#culture #class #UKPolitics
#copyright #theory #culturalstudies
#culturewar
#WorkingClass

How One Former Migrant Exposed Germany’s Contempt for Free Speech

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/how-one-former-migrant-exposed-germanys-contempt-for-free-speech/

I’ll be taking part in the next episode of Breaking Culture Live this afternoon, broadcasting on their YouTube channel at noon NYC time (5 pm UK): https://www.youtube.com/@BreakingCultureLive/streams

We’ll be discussing my new book, Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal – available #openaccess on a CC4r basis in a variety of formats (https://www.mediastudies.press/defund-culture-a-radical-proposal) - addressing what serves as its sub-subtitle: “Why the #arts are so white, male, and middle-class, and what we can do about it.”

‘Breaking Culture Live is a Cultural Studies Association affiliated program hosted by Past President Sean Johnson Andrews. Every Wednesday we spend our lunch hour breaking down the breaking news with cultural studies scholars and activists, discussing their work ... ‘

Subscribe to the Breaking Culture Live YouTube channel and tune in at 11:00 am Chicago, noon NYC time, 5 pm UK: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakingCultureLive/streams

#DefundCulture #culture #class #copyright #decolonisation #UKPolitics #theory #culturalstudies #culturewar #WorkingClass

The Columbus Statue at the White House Is Far More Than a Piece of Marble

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/the-columbus-statue-at-the-white-house-is-far-more-than-a-piece-of-marble/

@Reuters @ap @Bbcworld @PBSNewsHour @nytimes @washingtonpost @CNN @msnbc @npr @HuffPost @RollingStone @TheAtlantic @Slate @Mediaite @MeidasTouch @KeithOlbermann @cenkuygur

#EXPOST! #LGBTQ #TransRights #EqualityMatters #Hypocrisy #PoliticalHypocrisy #CultureWar #HumanRights #StopTheHate #Accountability #DoubleStandards #SocialJustice #LGBTQRights #Respect #BeBetter

When the media calls something a "culture war," they just mean it doesn't affect straight white men.

Critical race theory for example speaks to the massive over incarceration of black people, specifically black men.

Trans rights are just human rights for a small subset of the population.

Cancel culture centers around the desire of white nationalists to promote their hateful agenda and promote terrorism.

There is no "culture war," just war.

#Democrats
#Culturewar

Check out my new post for #ResistAndHeal:

Free Speech and Due Process in the Pentagon

https://open.substack.com/pub/resistandheal/p/free-speech-and-due-process-in-the?r=4unjx&utm_medium=ios

#politics #ConCW #polarization #military #culturewar

For normies to win the #CultureWar & #ClassWar, gotta counter creepy weird, entrenched, unserious people with something big, prosocial, and weird (sorta even kinda—mental) when it comes to talking about the future.

Like e-rickshaws for every #American bedroom, urban village, stroad-ridden community of 5,000 people.

https://www.superversive.co/blog/last-mile-solutions