Culture Punch: The Many Horrors of the Disney Corporation
There is a certain self-satisfaction to our popular culture which I find nauseating. TV and film are used to tell more styles and types of stories than ever before. At any given moment I can boot up...
View ArticleCulture Punch: The BBC's right-wing bias
Paul Tims lays into the BBC's right-wing bias. In this article, you’ll see that there are all sorts of valid political and cultural reasons for my personal distaste of the BBC. However, in the...
View ArticleFacebook and why we should all own it
Paul Tims, our regular Culture Punch columnist, sums up the problems with Facebook and calls for an end to private ownership of such an important means of human communication I think it’s fair to say...
View ArticleCulture Punch: reforming the videogames industry
Paul V. Tims looks at the games industry from a socialist perspective It probably won’t surprise my regular readers to learn that I love videogames. What better way to escape the turgid,...
View ArticleCulture Punch: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and righteous anti-capitalist...
Paul Tims argues that Tarantino's assertion of the value of violence in his latest film has a message for anti-capitalist activists I’m a huge Tarantino fan. You’re shocked, I can tell. Sarcasm aside,...
View ArticleEnlightenment for All!
Fran Lock introduces a 'Gypsy Futurist' science fiction story called 'Enlightenment For All!', available to download as a pdf below. Image above courtesy of Jack Varnell Realistic Irrealities: On...
View ArticleReturning the Screw
Returning the Screw By P.V. Tims After Henry James Have you got a match? My name is Quint. And no, growing up with a name that sounds like a cross between “cunt” and “squint” didn’t do me any favours....
View ArticleSmall Infinities
Introduction By Fran Lock Small Infinities is an appropriate title for a book – and an author – so enamoured of outlandish juxtaposition, paradox, and contradiction. While one useful description of...
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