jemgilbert.bsky.social
Cultural theory, political analysis, dance party politics.
Latest book: Hegemony Now (Verso, 2022)
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I think he's decided that he's just doing some kind of video art rather than even pretending to offer historical analysis.
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Have you watched it? So far it really seems like some kind of exercise in self-parody.
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It's kind of sad cos the penultimate couple of episodes of the 2020 series really stick out as probably the best analysis and the most political ones he's done, but then it all falls apart at the moment when any sane person would just say 'right the answer is socialism then'.
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I still haven't watched episodes 3-5 of the new one - I decided to go to back through the back catalogue (mainly cos I can do that while doing other stuff by just listening). Gonna have to sit through it in another week or so when I have time.
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Monetarism wasn't a dangerous ideological experiment that got terrifyingly out of control. It was the ideological and programmatic form taken by a very deliberate and successful project to reassert the power of finance and property and to permanently weaken the unions. (4/4)
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Those people had no particular interest in Britain having a strong manufacturing sector, and the experience of the 1970s had convinced many of them that in a manufacturing-based economy, unions would always be too powerful for them to feel safe and comfortable. (3/4).
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Thatcher's wing of the Tory party was AND ALWAYS HAD BEEN aligned with different sections of the capitalist class to the One-Nation wing or any section of the Labour Party. Thatcher wasn't aligned with manufacturers but with financiers, speculators and property-developers (2/4)
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I’m planning to watch it this week! I think you’ve probably correctly anticipated my view though.
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We didn’t talk about it cos we’ve both not read it properly despite owning the books. I did think afterwards maybe we should’ve done. I don’t think it would’ve changed the argument though and I think Arkwright’s problematic for the same reason we say all superheroes are problematic.
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Thanks Justin!
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labourlist.org/2025/05/blue...
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Thanks so much for this. Explaining liberalism, the different forms, and their relative conjunctures was super useful. Helped me to join a lot of dots. Particularly about 'the self' and how that was produced. Great stuff
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TBF the lobby journalists and politics desks all know this, but quite a few of the columnists and leader writers genuinely don't and are mystified.
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If you don't believe me just read this. It's perfectly obvious that this is what they should do to actually boost their popularity. But if they did this, it would be the beginning of the end for those weird McCarthyite freaks controlling the machine.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
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Here's an extended reading of how to get a girlfriend / boyfriend / themfriend (an article I wrote for Bish) open.spotify.com/episode/36E4...
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I did a podcast episode about dating apps recently. About how they (just like our phones) are weapons and tools open.spotify.com/episode/12tj...
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If you'd like to cultivate a more intentional (and counter hegemonic) way of doing your relationships, try this zine by me and Meg-John Barker
www.patreon.com/culturesexre...