Join us at the Circus
Counterpoint invites you to the launch of John Holden’s pamphlet Culture and Class at The Circus Space on 7 September. In a debate chaired by Catherine Fieschi, Director Counterpoint, the panel and guests will be discussing the urgent questions around the role of culture in the promotion of social justice, in the Creation Studio of the UK’s premier circus school. more...
Coming soon! New Counterpoint publication: Culture and Class
Using the UK as a case study, Counterpoint is turning the spotlight on the interplay of culture and class today. In advance of the publication of Culture and Class (forthcoming September 7), Catherine Fieschi outlines why it is crucial that we forge a new relationship between the two. Read the pamphlet's preface and have your say. more...
Cloud Culture Case Studies to hit SXSWi? Thanks for getting involved..
How is Cloud Culture transforming lives around the world? Counterpoint is in the running to present research into this question at SXSW interactive 2011. The research presented will challenge assumptions about the relationship between cultures and technology, highlighting the flow of ideas from the perceived global periphery to the perceived centre. Thank you to everyone who voted for or commented on our submission to the SXSW panelpicker. Maybe we'll see you in Austin! more...
What do you know about ‘Uzbekness’? Insights from an emigré writer
The travails of ethnic Uzbeks in Southern Kyrgyzstan may have (briefly) brought Uzbekistan into the media spotlight recently, but Uzbekistan, from the outside, is not a place we know all that well. Uzbekness: from otherness to ideology, a paper by Hamid Ismailov - emigre poet, novelist and Writer in Residence at the BBC World Service - provides an insider's view. more...
The rise and spread of the internet and world wide web are first and foremost a cultural phenomenon
The unbearable similarity of the Other.
You have to get away from a definition of culture as something which is simply decided by one class in society and given to another.
When people talk about music on demand, they talk about the number of things they’ve appropriated –‘I’ve appropriated two zillion tracks’…and you think, what for?
I’m a victim of my childhood reality: I cannot take anything seriously.
Podcasts
Projects
Culture and Class
Class is the strongest determinant of participation in culture and in turn, culture is a crucial marker ...
The Inner Lives of Cultures
The Inner Lives of Cultures project begins from the premise that in our interconnected, and simultaneously ...
Campus Radicalism
Through student surveys, expert interviews, and focus groups this Counterpoint project analyses what ...
