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K Biswas

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Critic - words in The Nation, New Statesman, New York Times, The Baffler, Le Monde Diplomatique, Times Literary Supplement & Chair of Resonance FM

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K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social · 4d

Manchester!
Culture is Extraordinary!
12.10.2025

I’m speaking with friends Owen Hatherley, Juliet Jacques, @jemgilbert.bsky.social & @shirleymush.bsky.social about the power of culture on Sunday at midday @ The World Transformed (Windrush Lounge)

theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...

The World Transformed 2025 // Culture is Extraordinary

theworldtransformed.org

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K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social · Jul 21

The great Alexander Cockburn, former @thenation.com columnist, died 13 years ago today. Here is a wonderful story from his father Claud Cockburn about lovelorn British diplomat Basil Murray & an ape in Republican Spain, republished in Alex’s diaries ‘A Colossal Wreck’ (@versobooks.bsky.social)

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K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social · May 14

For those interested in a more in-depth dissection of Jamie Oliver & New Labour, here’s @jonathandnunn.bsky.social and I on the fabulous @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social with @danhancox.bsky.social & @kasiatee.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/0WuB...

Jamie’s ‘Fish Stew’ song must be heard by all!

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K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social · May 14

Thank you, that’s very kind - hope you’re enjoying the rest of the magazine

K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social · Feb 10

Congratulations John, Adrienne, and the rest of this gang - cannot wait to see what you have in store.

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K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social · Dec 23

See my original introduction from last year reproduced below. 2024 marks a year thinking deeply about the legacy of Stuart Hall, beginning with a Red Pepper special published a decade after his death. Thanks to people like Mike, Nick Beech, Catherine & the Foundation, we all get to see these gems.

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K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social · Dec 23

Lovely surprise to be mentioned in this @nybooks piece over the weekend reproducing a sweeping conversation between the most lucid black intellectuals to grace Britain - CLR James & Stuart Hall

www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

Thanks to legendary BBC producer Mike Dibb for getting the ball rolling

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Reposted by K Biswas

Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social · Dec 18

Introducing this special issue on the theme of "Stuart Hall in Translation," Kuntal Biswas wrote "Introduction – the Unfinished Stuart Hall." The introduction to Volume 38, Issue 6 can be found here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Introduction – the Unfinished Stuart Hall.” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Kuntal Biswas • Volume 38, Issue 6 (2024)”

The second image is titled “A Look Inside,” and it features the first paragraph of the article: “In July 2000, Stuart Hall delivered a keynote lecture entitled ‘Diasporas, or the logics of cultural translation’ (or ‘Diásporas, ou a lógica da tradução cultural’) at a comparative literature conference in Salvador, the capital of Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia (Hall 2016). Beginning his lecture with an apology for ‘speaking in a foreign language’ and pledging to talk slowly ‘on pain of death by my translators’, Hall embarks upon a journey around the ‘Black Atlantic’s southern meridian’, interweaving the histories and fates of the Caribbean and Brazilian people – ‘translated societies’ whose experiences resonate with one another from colonisation to globalization (2016).” There is a separate segment at the bottom that says “Continue Reading at the Link in Our Description.”

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K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social · Dec 3

I was talking to wonderful @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
today about the existence of a glorious late-90s rendition of Bernard Cribbins’ ‘Right, Said Fred’, performed by… Maya Angelou & Jessica Mitford…!

open.spotify.com/track/3SL3Dh...

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K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social · Nov 29

Bumped into the great John Rogers today, who signed a second-hand copy of This Other London I’m currently reading. Enjoyed a good gossip + love learning about the radical recent past of Leyton / Leytonstone (‘London’s Left Bank’)

K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social · Nov 21

Resonance FM won Network of the Year third year running !!

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K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social · Nov 18

You alright, Clive…?

Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · Nov 18

Watching my daughter have a tantrum I realised we are machines that exist for the sum purpose of recreating small, insentient portions of ourselves.

Organic engines honed into shape by evolution and not by rational thought.

Looking at the world around me, it’s never seemed more true.

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K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social · Nov 11

I wanted to draw attention to two excellent & very recent books with dedications to my friend and yours, the late great Dawn Foster (1986-2021):
- Peak Injustice by Danny Dorling
- From The Ashes by Sarah Jaffe

K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social · Nov 9

I’ve just written about Kemi Badenoch’s victory for @thenation.com - what it may mean for the Conservative Party and the future direction of Britain:

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The New Face of British Conservatism is Black—and Female

The London-born daughter of Nigerian parents presides over the ruins of 14 years of Tory rule. Can her brand of nativism-lite bring the party out of the wilderness?

www.thenation.com

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K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social · Nov 8

I’m the guest editor of the current issue of @culturalstudies.bsky.social looking at the worldwide legacy of the great Stuart Hall.

You can read the entire series & my introduction here for free: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/resource/int...

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