May Round-up
What I’ve been writing about this month; plus, 25% off paid subscriptions for one year.
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Paid subscribers receive regular posts in the Rewound series, analysing objects or episodes from cultural and political history.
Rewound
In May, I wrote this piece for the Rewound series, on Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine’s 1990 album, 101 Damnations, and its evocation of South London life at the tail end of Thatcherism.
One Take
For One Take, I wrote this piece on the 1980s-set Love Lies Bleeding, and its queering of the erotic thriller genre.
Research and Reflections
Based on my ongoing research into the political and moral economies of post-war Britain, I wrote these Research & Reflection pieces on post-war cultural industries generally, and then on post-war professional football more specifically.
Stop, Look, and Listen
I use Stop, Look, and Listen to champion podcast episodes and articles produced by others that I have found especially good and think would also be of interest to readers of this newsletter.
To that end, I just want to recommend this excellent episode of Jewish Currents’ podcast, On the Nose, in which four Jewish Currents staff discuss their personal trajectories and relationships with Zionism and anti-Zionism as political projects, and how it relates to their identities as diasporic Jews.
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