It is his emphasis on the cultural aspect of social relations which gives Gramsci a distinctive place in Marxist philosophy.
(Gramsci, page 8)

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century.
(p.117)

In the year the Sex Pistols released ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’, British historian James ...

Martin Parr CBE (1952 to 2025) was a major English documentary photographer and photojournalist. He was well-known for photographic projects that take an anthropological and often unflattering look at aspects of modern life, in particular the foibles and embarrassments of English life, all recorded in unflinching, saturated colour.

In the 1980s Parr pio...

Born in 1965, Hurvin Anderson is a (male) Black British artist. His parents were natives of Jamaica, where they’d already had several children before they migrated to England as part of the Windrush Generation. It was here, in Birmingham, that Anderson was born. Hence the key, standout fact of his life and work – Anderson is a man between two cultures: born into an i...

‘I often feel miserable.’
(Heroic understatement from 30-year-old Ludwig Wittgenstein, who in fact often felt stupid, futile, wretched, ashamed and suicidal)

This is a huge book (580 pages of text, 70 of notes and index etc, making 654 pages in all) and a hugely enjoyable biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the man many take to be the great...

Albert Camus (1913 to 1960) was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist and political activist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in its history, and the first literature laureate born in Africa (he was born in Algeria).

Camus is often bracketed with his sometime friend and rival, Jea...