http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/article en Copyright 2008 2008-11-13T16:20:34+00:00 http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/symbolic_lyricism_-_man_booker_shortlist_2008/ http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/symbolic_lyricism_-_man_booker_shortlist_2008/#When:16:20:34Z As a beautiful young woman, Roseanne is surrounded and shaped by men. Not to labour the comparison, but as the country of Ireland, or Eíre, is often represented as a woman, it is not difficult to see parallels. Anna Leach Fiction, Literary Prizes, Arts: Politics and Identity, 2008-11-13T16:20:34+00:00 http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/schroedingers_villain/ http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/schroedingers_villain/#When:14:47:26Z None of this is in the slightest bit coherent. Perhaps constantly changing our understanding of what Greene does is meant to express the mysterious nature of his ‘Quantum’ network. Lee Jones Film, 2008-11-13T14:47:26+00:00 http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/therapy_culture_revisited/ http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/therapy_culture_revisited/#When:14:20:54Z Our view is that education is now the key to our future. This is not to revert to an archaic form of change through education but to recognise that, at the present moment, it is only by asserting subjects that we can develop subjectivity. Kathryn Ecclestone Books, Essays, 2008-11-13T14:20:54+00:00 http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/life_through_a_lens/ http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/life_through_a_lens/#When:02:38:07Z So the exhibition gives us the celebrity stuff we expect. Or does it? For the unexpected lurks here. Nicky Charlish Visual Arts, Arts: Politics and Identity, 2008-11-13T02:38:07+00:00 http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/gee_thanks_andy/ http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/gee_thanks_andy/#When:02:00:58Z Glam rockers, punks, new romantics and today’s more extreme street fashion club kids can all be said to be Warhol’s children. Nicky Charlish Visual Arts, Arts: Politics and Identity, 2008-11-13T02:00:58+00:00 http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/raw_meat/ http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/raw_meat/#When:18:04:24Z It’s easy to dismiss Bacon as a gay schlock merchant and his work as a sort of story-board from a Hammer Horror film scripted by Oscar Wilde. An exhibition to mark the forthcoming centenary of his birth gives us the chance to re-evaluate this view Nicky Charlish Visual Arts, 2008-11-12T18:04:24+00:00 http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/reputation_reputation_reputation/ http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/reputation_reputation_reputation/#When:16:21:41Z What the production loses is a sense of tragic downfall, as Jimmy Akingbola’s Othello is only great when viewed from within the culture under attack. He is a picture of hostile masculinity elevated from a pack of dopey shellsuited henchmen, too easily coaxed into irrational suspicion. Matt Trueman Theatre, 2008-11-12T16:21:41+00:00 http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/blind_luck_and_bluff/ http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/blind_luck_and_bluff/#When:16:19:36Z Though Massey’s script is full of deliciously bleak witticisms, waxing lyrical on phone sex lines and Aldi, it is ultimately contained by its own linearity. His delicate build of tension in the first half is entirely undermined by the predictability of the outcome. Matt Trueman Theatre, 2008-11-12T16:19:36+00:00 http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/cw_editorial_note_7_november_2008/ http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/cw_editorial_note_7_november_2008/#When:16:47:50Z The week after the Battle of Ideas sees the election of Obama, and CW looks at negativity in supercapitalism, the ploys of fame and the implications of a puppy in the White House. Editorial Team Blogs, CW Editorial Notes, 2008-11-07T16:47:50+00:00 http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/reluctant_celebrity/ http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/reluctant_celebrity/#When:16:02:57Z In Cosmo’s cosmos, modern life doesn’t bustle: it is staid, boring and amounts to being buried alive. On the other hand, the squalid cash interpretation that many put on ‘being a success’ is diseased too. Aidan Campbell Books, Arts: Politics and Identity, 2008-11-07T16:02:57+00:00 http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/how_bollywood_portrays_the_other/ http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/how_bollywood_portrays_the_other/#When:15:39:20Z Although Hindi films have been known to be merely melodramatic, the portrayal of Indian Sikhs and Hindus as protagonists and Pakistani Muslims as antagonists is a theme that is reinforced throughout most but not all of the films dealing with the subject. Javed Mohammed Essays, Film, Arts: Politics and Identity, 2008-11-07T15:39:20+00:00 http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/against_an_ethical_lifestyle/ http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/against_an_ethical_lifestyle/#When:13:38:46Z Through ever-progressing ethics we ‘learned’ slavery was wrong a couple of centuries ago; racism and sexism turned out to be bad sometime during the 20th century; and homophobia became unethical a decade or so later. In another half century we’ll all become vegetarians.  Iain King Essays, Religion and Humanism, 2008-11-07T13:38:46+00:00 http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/the_accursed_cultural_theory/ http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/the_accursed_cultural_theory/#When:13:10:22Z Wilson sets the stage for a logical reconstruction of self loathing as it currently appears in the most advanced capitalist nation. But instead of stripping down this phenomenon and then rebuilding it to show how it is determined, Wilson takes us on a tour of its manifestations in the work of rappers. Dr Andrew Calcutt Books, America, America, Radicalism, past, present and future, 2008-11-07T13:10:22+00:00 http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/admirably_and_hopelessly_idealistic/ http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/admirably_and_hopelessly_idealistic/#When:11:40:55Z Tony Graham’s lushly atmospheric production treats its young audience without patronising them, conjuring up a delicate exoticism through suspended rugs and the sway of Tunde Jegede’s music. Matt Trueman Theatre, 2008-11-06T11:40:55+00:00 http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/clashing_worldviews/ http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/clashing_worldviews/#When:11:28:46Z Where the message is left to the words and movements of a talented performer, DV8 create something special and, more importantly, human. Matt Trueman Theatre, 2008-11-06T11:28:46+00:00