Tom Jennings

Radical cultural critic analysing different elements within popular culture.

Spank the Monkey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts, Gateshead, 2006. Art review

This review finds that The Baltic’s ‘street art’ exhibition bites off much more than it can chew.

High Street Art-Lite by Tom Jennings

Review that finds this to be an important advance on Pierre Bourdieu’s ‘reflexive sociology’.

Exchanged and Marked

Review discussing treatments of politics in mainstream cinema.

Rose Coloured Spectacles by Tom Jennings

Review of a docudramatic critique of the War on Terror

Likely Lads in the Global Gulag

Reviews of controversial Oscar nominee for best foreign film

Clarifying the Muddle East

Tom Jennings review Lars von Trier’s follow-up to Dogville.

Grace, Favour and Farce

Film review that glimpses seeds of hope in Lower City’s vividly lurid portrayal of the seamier side of lowlife.

The Hard Labour of Love

Tom Jennings’ 1994 essay in Here & Now magazine highlighting the need to modernise radical theory.

Corrupting Left Intellectual Culture by Tom Jennings
1. From diversity...

Tom Jennings’ 1995 essay on the importance and limitations of Chomsky’s political writings and philosophy.

Common Sense: Golden Goose or Propaganda? by Tom Jennings

Abstract

Review of Stefan Szczelkun’s documentation of grass-roots culture in these DVDs and an extraordinarily rich website.

Documents of Dissentiment