Culture and Barbarism
Novelist and critic Dennis Broe and Cultural Studies and Global Media Raconteur Toby Miller explore The Politics of Culture and The Culture of Politics. Rosa Luxemburg said the choice was between Socialism and Barbarism but perhaps today what we have is Culture And Barbarism.
Podcasting since 2025 • 10 episodes
Culture and Barbarism
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Culture & Barbarism 9 AI: Plagiarism, Bubbles, Environmental Devastation
Has AI come to save the world, to destroy it or to destroy it in the guise of saving it? Is AII, which supposedly enriches all our lives, a gigantic boon to humanity and/or a monstrous con where creators’ own work is fed back to th...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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Culture & Barbarism Special Report: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?: Trump declares 'Mission Accomplished' in Venezuela
Trump who had once proclaimed the U.S. was in Syria for the oil, now claims to have returned Venezuela's oil to its rightful owners, the American oil companiesLike George Bush before him in Iraq, Donald Trump proclaimed that with Venezue...
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Culture & Barbarism 8: Mainstream Media Coup
In this episode with Dennis Broe and Special Guest Lee Camp, we discuss the new concentration and consolidation of right-wing media as it moves to capture mainstream (or center-right) media with the new dominance of Larry Ellison's proxy owners...
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Culture & Barbarism 7: Shredding The Corporate Narrative
Of Alternative Radio, Trumpian "Affordability" and a new Robin Hood who taxes the poor and gives tax breaks to the rich. This episode, also a plea for listener-sponsored radio, features Dennis Broe and WBAI’s Jack Shalom discussing ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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Culture & Barbarism 6 House of Guinness and Higher Education: Two Houses Under Fire and Under Siege
Dennis on Steven Knights' House of Guinness and its challenge to the genre of "wealth porn." Toby on some surprising trends in Higher Education that indicate that though under fire in the Trump era the field is still prosperous. Plus, fashion a...
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