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.
Class, Self, Culture, by Beverley Skeggs, Routledge, 2004. Book review Review that finds this to be an important advance on Pierre Bourdieu’s ‘reflexive sociology’.
Rose Coloured Spectacles (2006). Film review Review discussing treatments of politics in mainstream cinema.
Paradise Now, dir. Hany Abu-Assad, 2006. Film review Reviews of controversial Oscar nominee for best foreign film
Manderlay, dir. Lars Von Trier, 2006. Film review Tom Jennings review Lars von Trier’s follow-up to Dogville.
Lower City, dir. Sérgio Machado, Brazil 2006. Film review Film review that glimpses seeds of hope in Lower City’s vividly lurid portrayal of the seamier side of lowlife.
Corrupting left intellectual culture. Essay - Tom Jennings Tom Jennings’ 1994 essay in Here & Now magazine highlighting the need to modernise radical theory.
Chomsky and the Politics of Rationality. Essay – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings’ 1995 essay on the importance and limitations of Chomsky’s political writings and…
London Counterculture and People Power of the Nineties, Nos. 1 and 2, by Stefan Szczelkun, 2006. DVD review Review of Stefan Szczelkun’s documentation of grass-roots culture in these DVDs and an extraordinarily rich website.
Küba, by Kutlug Ataman, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle, July-August 2006. Art review Küba’s multitude of screens give a fascinating but flawed portrayal of community.
The Power of Nightmares - review BBC2’s fascinating ‘The Power of Nightmares’ (Adam Curtis, 2004) documentaries offer nothing new, argues Tom Jennings
Hot House Cold Storage, by Sally Madge, Isis Gallery, Melmerby, Cumbria, 2004. Art review – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings’ review of a ground-breaking site-specific installation.
