{"id":1579,"date":"2015-06-08T11:46:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T11:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2015-10-08T22:08:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T22:08:19","slug":"everything-has-changed-but-nothing-has-changed-cultural-stasis-and-technological-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/?p=1579","title":{"rendered":"Everything has changed but nothing has changed: cultural stasis and technological revolution."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 2.\u00a06:30-8:30 pm<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1582 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/apple-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"apple\" width=\"514\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/apple-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/apple-1024x546.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/apple.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/>Two observations about contemporary culture have become commonplace in recent years. On the one hand, the claim that we are living through a social revolution, driven by technological c<br \/>\nhange, is virtually accepted as a truism. On the other hand, the apparent slowdown of rates of actual innovation in fields such as music and fashion is also widely observed; Simon Reynolds\u2019 diagnosis of \u2018retromania\u2019 as the contemporary condition has been widely appreciated, for example. Can we understand both of these phenomena as symptomatic of a world in which the hegemony of Silicon Valley forces certain kinds of innovation while retarding and containing others? And what can we do about it?<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Gilbert\u00a0is Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London. He is the author of\u00a0<i>Anti-Capitalism &amp; Culture: Radical Theory &amp; Popular Politics\u00a0<\/i>(Berg, 2008) and\u00a0<i>Common Ground: Democracy &amp; Collectivity in an Age of Individualism\u00a0<\/i>(Pluto, 2013). He is also editor of the journal\u00a0<i>New Formations<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Open School East<br \/>\nThe Rose Lipman Building<br \/>\n43 De Beauvoir Rd<br \/>\nLondon\u00a0N1 5SQ<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>All welcome, admission free, no need to book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View map\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps\/ms?msid=203237313832444328982.0004cde99e855e257b5e1&amp;msa=0&amp;ll=51.53933,-0.081926&amp;spn=0.007167,0.012424\" target=\"_blank\">View Map<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Thursday, July 2.\u00a06:30-8:30 pm Two observations about contemporary culture have become commonplace in recent years. On the one hand, the claim that we are living through a social revolution, driven by technological c hange, is virtually accepted as a truism. On the other hand, the apparent slowdown of rates of actual innovation in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/?p=1579\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Everything has changed but nothing has changed: cultural stasis and technological revolution.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturalstudiesresearch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}