Jack Graham wrote about Doctor Who and Marxism, often at the same time. These days he co-hosts the I Don't Speak German podcast with Daniel Harper.Support Jack on Patreon.
Won't an independent Scotland end up being a neo-liberal capitalist playground, offering generous tax concessions and freedom from regulation to multi-national corporations?
I would suggest that offering a political reading of a widely-consumed piece of popular culture is contributing to society and spreading a preferred ideology through those means would even be a positive contribution, at least in its author's eyes.
Keep up the good work, Jack. Your blog is far from shit and is often eye-opening, and never less than interesting. I'll be following Xenomorph's Paradox closely, too, and realising how utterly simplistic my Marxist reading of Alien was, a few years ago in a university exam.
Don't know if that's of interest to you or not but it's there (don't know if you know about the website or not either – set up by some pissed off ex-SWPers who run a small press publishing hard left books…) I have the book in my possesion but haven't read it yet.
Anyway, keep up with the good work. I've really liked reading the Dr. Who commentary on here and hopefully I'll be able to comment more in future.
they are bloggers >on the internet >running blogs analysing a childrens show >they take their "analysis" very seriously >they do it for free >they do it because its the only contribution and impact they will have in their pathetic lives >they condemn episodes they don't like because whenever they get upset they have an asthma attack >they delete comments they don't like because they interfere with the backlog of tacky scifi and comics they still have to watch >they will never have real jobs >they will never move out their parents house >they will never be at a healthy weight >they will never know how to cook anything besides a hot pocket >they will never a have a girlfriend >they will never have any friends >he does it because it's the only
September 18, 2014 @ 2:53 am
Won't an independent Scotland end up being a neo-liberal capitalist playground, offering generous tax concessions and freedom from regulation to multi-national corporations?
September 18, 2014 @ 5:06 am
You mean 'will it be part of the world as it currently exists'? Yes, I expect so.
September 19, 2014 @ 10:26 am
HA HA HA NO INDEPENDENCE NOW YOUR DREAMS OF BEING BEHIND ESTONIA IN THE EUROPEAN POVERTY LINE ARE OVER NOW
P.S. YOUR BLOG IS SHIT, CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY OR SOMETHING
September 21, 2014 @ 6:15 pm
I would suggest that offering a political reading of a widely-consumed piece of popular culture is contributing to society and spreading a preferred ideology through those means would even be a positive contribution, at least in its author's eyes.
Keep up the good work, Jack. Your blog is far from shit and is often eye-opening, and never less than interesting. I'll be following Xenomorph's Paradox closely, too, and realising how utterly simplistic my Marxist reading of Alien was, a few years ago in a university exam.
September 24, 2014 @ 5:59 pm
Hello
Fairly long term reader/ spectator here but a non-poster.I'm not on tumblr but I saw you post something re: chartism and lack of good books on thereof. There was, in fact, a book on this a few years back which you didn't mention: http://ammarxists.org/new-on-unkant-dave-black-chris-ford-1839-the-chartist-insurrection/
Don't know if that's of interest to you or not but it's there (don't know if you know about the website or not either – set up by some pissed off ex-SWPers who run a small press publishing hard left books…) I have the book in my possesion but haven't read it yet.
Anyway, keep up with the good work. I've really liked reading the Dr. Who commentary on here and hopefully I'll be able to comment more in future.
September 24, 2014 @ 6:10 pm
Cheers, I'll check that out.
September 25, 2014 @ 6:00 am
September 26, 2014 @ 1:06 pm
Well I like them anyway.