Initially this online issue was to focus primarily on the intersections of socialist politics, technology, and culture. While the issue still does that it has evolved to include further questions of current left-cultural praxis. This includes, we are happy to say, a partial history of Red Wedge itself — dealing with the evolving nature of our project since its beginning in 2012, as well a contribution from Locust Review, edited in part by current and former editors of Red Wedge — on critical irrealism vs. capitalist realism. In addition this issue features Toby Manning on 1980s music and the counterculture, Kate Doyle Griffiths on Lil Nas X, Jase Short on recent trends in the horror genre, and the third part of Neil Davidson’s three part essay on Trotsky and modernism. Flowing from the initial core theme of this issue we present Red Wedge editor Jordy Cummings on the implications of Spotify, Patrick Higgins on screen time and discipline, Jeremy Gross on Stafford Beer, Laura Fair-Schulz on how digital media and politics have changed and informed the question of nudity and nakedness, and Shalon van Tine on technology in 1990s cinema. We are also pleased to present poetry and fiction from Sunni Hutton, Adam Marks, Tish Markley and Margaret Corvid. And, throughout this online issue, artwork from Adam Ray Adkins, Marissa Angel, The Born Again Labor Museum (Tish Markley and Adam Turl), Johnny Hammond, M. Ryan Noble, Richard Reilly, Anupam Roy, and Christopher William Wilke. We are also posting here some related articles, poetry, and fiction from our archives and some of our most recent blog posts.
Essays, History + Reviews
Recent Blogs
Poetry + Fiction
more lit from the archives
archives
Visual art featured in this issue by Adam Ray Adkins, Marissa Angel, The Born Again Labor Museum (Tish Markley + Adam Turl), Johnny Hammond, M. Ryan Noble, Richard Reilly, Anupam Roy, Christopher William Wilke. Social media splash image for this page by Christopher William Wilke.