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.
Episodes
6 episodes
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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Culture & Barbarism 5: All the News That Fits, We Cut: The Republican Attack on Public Media
In this episode Toby and Dennis discuss the cuts in public television and radio; how they are dis-servicing local Indigenous Media and how Alternative Media is countering Public Media’s Washington Consensus.Also on the agenda ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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58:32
Culture and Barbarism 4: Terrorising LA One Automatic Delivery Vehicle At A Time
In this episode, Dennis Broe and Toby Miller look at the significance of the LA Protests against Trump’s “invasion” of California, the class and racial meaning of the burning of the Waymo cars, the U.S. Treasury assault on Mexican banks and the...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:08:38
Tariffs, Tariffs, and more, no, wait a minute, less tariffs
In this episode Toby Miller and Dennis Broe discuss Trump's tariffs and their effect on the European and American audiovisual industry as well as the ways the American streamers continue to colonize European public television while seemingly, a...
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56:54
Culture & Barbarism, Episode 2: Sports Reporting, Palestinian Women and Carnage vs. "Clashes"
Of Miriam Adelson, The Book of Trump, Mahmoud Kalil and Roger Angell and...Why is Luca Doncic A Laker?In the second episode of Culture & Barbarism Toby Miller and Dennis Broe explore the expansion of sports and sports...
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Culture and Barbarism in British Capitalism, U.S.-Mexico Relations and Neoliberal Los Angeles
Toby Miller is a Cultural Studies and Global Media Raconteur. Dennis Broe is a journalist, novelist and broadcaster. In our pilot episode we recount Steven Knight's mapping of the cruelty of 19th and 20th century British capitalism, Trump's unf...
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