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The UK’s Brexit podcasts:
Full text linkIt is sometimes said we live in an age characterised by crisis. Taking Brexit as an example of a recent crisis moment, we explore the role of the UK’s political podcasts. Brexit was the subject of a huge amount of conventional media coverage in the UK and elsewhere, including radio, TV and short podcast series. But here we focus on two hugely popular, long-running, single issue podcasts: Brexitcast and Remainiacs, which emerged when podcasting was exploding as a popular form and became an unexpected audience hit. They reported on Brexit with far less efficiency than conventional media, taking up hundreds of hours of media time. Much of this time is spent on speculation, humour and domestic trivia. In this chapter we explore how these are used to dramatise and make sense of Brexit as a chaotic process that moves both too fast and too slow. In exploiting the temporal affordances of podcasting, these series carnivalise (Bakhtin, 1970) the sacred space of international politics and help to strip it of some of its power. No wonder this genre of political podcasting has endured post-Brexit, becoming a popular phenomenon in the UK
Des médias de crise ?
Full text linkOur contribution analyses how two popular British podcasts – Brexitcast (BBC) and Remainiacs (Podmasters) – talked about the Brexit crisis that prompted their creation. Drawing on an interdisciplinary dialogue between cultural studies and discourse analysis, we situate political podcasting within the broader cultural climate of “permacrisis” (Shariatmadari, 2022; Turnbull, 2022) and show that the key features of British journalistic podcasting can be understood as a particularly relevant response to a period marked by political turbulence. The analysis of the corpus highlights how humour, conversational proximity and emotional sharing (Lindgren, 2023; Berry, 2022) operate as media responses to the social affects of uncertainty and waiting (Carswell et al., 2019; Hall, 2022). We identify a recurrent set of discursive strategies – irony, domestic metaphors, the sharing of personal details, and the celebration of “geekiness” – which foster a sense of listener community and provide a kind of informed “emotional support,” while helping to demystify and render intelligible a complex political process. Our analysis shows that these podcasts offer a dual remedy: they both amplify the sense of ongoing crisis and simultaneously offer a coping mechanism through conversation, sociability and the provision of information. They do not however do much to develop a collective identity beyond podcast listening that might enable more profound change in response to the crisis
Surplus Cinema: Feminisms and Filmmaking in the Context of Greece and its Intertwining Diasporas
Full text linkSurplus Cinema is a group of itinerant, diasporic makers, artists, activists, writers and friends. We ask questions about feminist filmmaking and decolonial practices within the context of Greece and intertwining diasporas.
Drawing on Dimitra Kotouza’s writing of 'Surplus Citizens'6, we propose to shift the attention away from the pedestal to the backstage, situating our ruminations in surplus, excedent, unruly filmic narratives. The project was initiated in September 2021 by the curatorial team consisting of Maria Christoforidou, Sofia Dati, Rabab El Mouadden, Christina Phoebe and Elli Vassalou. In this polyphonic paper each member of the group discusses the films in the programme through specific feminist diasporic lenses.
Friendship in Surplus– Christina Phoebe.
(M)othering– Rabab El Mouadden
Make Kin and Babies (Surplus Babies) —Elli Vassalou
Landmarks and Placeholders– Sofia Dati
an archive of errrrors —maria christoforido
'Every fashion's rise and fall'
Full text linkCD review of Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam (deluxe edition), Bill Nelson, (Esoteric/Cherry Red
Custom Made
Full text linkBook review of Rough Music: Folk Customs, Trangressions & Alternative Britain, Liz Williams (Reaktion
Carry On Confluence
Full text linkBook review of Code: Damp, An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms, Sophie Sleigh-Johnson (£10.99, Repeater Books
Tears and rain – AI and authorship: Challenging concepts of the unique through unauthored rarity
No full textThis article explores the evolving nature of authorship and meaning-making in illustration against the backdrop of artificial intelligence (AI)-generative art technologies and image saturation. Moving beyond surface debates around AI obsolescence, it aims to reframe discourse through an interdisciplinary lens of theory, visual culture and futurism. The central hypothesis posits that in our eagerness to declare authorial intent’s ‘death’, we may have failed to recognize how meaning has migrated rather than disappeared. By synthesizing postmodern theory with an altermodernist framework, specifically through the combination of Frederic Jameson’s ‘schizophrenic’ visual culture with Nicolaus Bourriaud’s concept of the ‘Semionaut’. The article claims that authorial significance has shifted into uncharted territories we remain blind to – with critical repercussions for illustrators’ roles as cultural curators, in an era where users of AI can infinitely generate ‘unique’ images of high quality without any illustrative ability. Perhaps the true value for illustrative arts lies in cultivating ‘rareness’ – contextually embedded artefacts imbued with intention that cut through visual noise. This pivot has profound implications for professional practice, ethics and training. The article aims to initiate new dialogues examining these future-facing considerations. This scholarly inquiry emerges from over a decade of critically investigating impacts of computational advances on image production and reception to identify the hidden impact of postmodernism as it accelerates through new technical abilities provided by AI to suggest new authorial mutations
Production and consumption in Bibliotherapy for the Anthropocene
Full text linkthis paper will span a timeline from the online meeting Art, Ecology, Emergency: Sustaining Practice, coordinated by the Eden Project, that took place under lockdown in 2020, through to the summer of 2021 and an event in a series of fields on the Lizard in Cornwall. this paper will draw on the methodological development of Bibliotherapy for the anthropocene, which is a performance in the guise of a reading group, a cross between a Quaker meeting and a reconvening of the Dead Poets society, and subsequently a collaboration with the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the study of Existential Risk. throughout this paper, the author will evidence how arts practices that are cyclical and performative can embed creativity and democracy into conversations taking place in and around landscape decision-making
Taking Flight
Full text linkCD review of Music Inspired by the Snow Goose, Camel (2CD/Blu-Ray, Esoteric/Cherry Red
