THE ACADEMY 2025 UPHEAVAL: WHY POLITICS NEEDS A NEW LANGUAGE Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 July 2025 Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire includes, for one person: conference sessions on Sunday lunch on Sunday| Ideas Matter
THE ACADEMY 2025 UPHEAVAL: WHY POLITICS NEEDS A NEW LANGUAGE Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 July 2025 Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire includes, for one person: conference sessions on Saturday lunch on Saturday| Ideas Matter
THE ACADEMY 2025 UPHEAVAL: WHY POLITICS NEEDS A NEW LANGUAGE Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 July 2025, Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire includes, for one person: conference sessions lunch on Saturday and Sunday| Ideas Matter
SATURDAY 5 JULY 1045 – 1100Welcome addressLanguage GamesJacob Reynolds convenor, The Academy 1100 – 1230Plenary IThe Search for Home in an Alienated WorldProfessor Frank Furedi executive director, MCC Brussels As place, culture and memory dissolve into the bland universality of global technocracy, many experience a creeping sense of estrangement. What does it mean to feel … Continue reading ""| Ideas Matter
The Academy 2024 takes place at Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire. For a full overview, including how to buy tickets, visit The Academy 2024 page. Friday 16 August For Friday arrivals 1500Room check-in opens From 1930Welcome dinner Saturday 17 August 0930Registration 1045 – 1100Welcome addressTHE ANTI-CIVILISATION ETHOSJacob Reynolds convenor, The Academy 1100 – 1230Plenary IFROM DECOLONISATION TO … Continue reading ""| Ideas Matter
Adorno and Horkheimer’s critique of the culture industry argued that movies and mass-produced entertainment represented the ‘de-artification’ or commodification of art by capitalism: an inauthentic and formulaic regurgitation of reality that deceived its audiences. The real thing was difficult and hard to understand: modernism separated itself off from mass culture in order to try and … Continue reading "Culture Wars, then and now, ep 6: ‘The culture of disenchantment’" The post C...| Ideas Matter
This lecture on the crisis of bourgeois ideology, from Nietzsche to Heidegger, is a pre-history of today’s culture wars. It explores the broad sweep and trajectory of modernist culture, from the mid nineteenth century through to the interwar years of the 20th century. LECTURERDr Tim Black, books and essays editor, Spiked. TALKING POINTS IN THIS … Continue reading "Culture Wars: then and now, ep 5: ‘The crisis of bourgeois ideology’" The post Culture Wars: then and now, ep 5: ‘The cr...| Ideas Matter
For a long time the family has been viewed as the location of all sorts of social and moral problems and are where many of the key discussions in the culture wars have traditionally been played out. But recently the focus seems to have shifted from traditional issues such as marriage, sexual freedom or abortion … Continue reading "Culture Wars, then and now, ep 4: ‘Family matters’" The post Culture Wars, then and now, ep 4: ‘Family matters’ appeared first on Ideas Matter.| Ideas Matter
The debate surrounding Parkfield school in Birmingham and wider discussion on the role of sex and relationship classes within educational programmes, are just the latest incidences of schools becoming a battlefield for the culture wars. Starting with developments in the 1870s when the state intervention in schooling in England & Wales became more pronounced, James … Continue reading "Culture wars, then and now, ep 3: ‘The role of the state in education’" The post Culture wars, then and ...| Ideas Matter
In this lecture, Frank Furedi introduces the concept of the culture wars, explores its historical context and outlines how changing conceptions of morality and the status of moral authority distinguish today’s culture wars from those that took place in the past. The post Culture Wars, then and now, ep 2: ‘The emergence of the culture wars’ appeared first on Ideas Matter.| Ideas Matter
This is the introductory podcast to the series 'Culture Wars: then and now', recorded in 2019 at the summer school The Academy. The post Culture Wars, then and now, ep 1: ‘On culture’ appeared first on Ideas Matter.| Ideas Matter
Journalist Ella Whelan talks to the academic and author Dr Jan Macvarish as a taster for Jan’s lecture, ‘Family matters’, at The Academy. The post Ideas Matter: Family Matters appeared first on Ideas Matter.| Ideas Matter
Ella Whelan talks author and broadcaster Timandra Harkness as a taster for Timandra’s lecture, ‘The Personalised Century’, at The Academy. The post Ideas Matter: The Personalised Century appeared first on Ideas Matter.| Ideas Matter
In the first of our IDEAS MATTER podcasts, Professor Frank Furedi talks to journalist Ella Whelan about the boi's upcoming residential summer school, The Academy. The post Ideas Matter: will there ever be an end to the Culture Wars? appeared first on Ideas Matter.| Ideas Matter
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Educate · Debate · Renewal Ideas Matter seeks to renew social life through debate, discussion and education about the big ideas that have inspired humanity throughout history. Ideas Matter believes that the basis of good citizenship and education – our charitable purposes – is engagement with the ideas that have been articulated, challenged and discussed … Continue reading "About Ideas Matter"| Ideas Matter
Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 July 2025Wyboston Lakes, Great North Road, WybostonBedfordshire, MK44 3ALTicket information here Introduction Our time is one of tremendous change, with regular outbreaks of the unexpected and unthinkable. Yet somehow, old ideas and old approaches stumble on like zombies. Our language seems to be full of words that belong to a … Continue reading "Upheaval: why politics needs a new language – The Academy 2025"| Ideas Matter
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