/146/ Class is Cancelled ft. Ben Tippet
Added 2020-09-08 06:00:01 +0000 UTCOn class.
Class as an idea and an identity is now supposedly redundant. It’s been replaced by conflicts between generations and transcended by more up-to-date identities linking people together through common experiences of victimhood and inequality, rather than along lines related to production or power. Or is it? We discuss these questions with Ben Tippett, author of Split: Class Divides Uncovered to find out whether class still has any place in society and theory (spoiler: it does).
Reading:
- Split: What Love Island Tells Us About Culture & Class In Modern Britain, Ben Tippet, The Quietus (Excerpt from book)
Split: Class Divides Uncovered, Ben Tippet, Pluto Press
Comments
Many of the supposed peculiarities of the British "class system" also exist in the United States. There are a lot of signals that people are attuned to, and a system of "public schools" that entrench privilege. What is peculiar to the British is that they are less hypocritical about it all, more honest about the existence of class snobbery. The public performance of snobbery in the US is mostly directed towards mocking intellectual pursuits by working stiffs (Eg, Frasier)
Paul Brewer
2021-05-02 20:18:41 +0000 UTCHad to double check I wasn't listening to Novara Media while Ben was talking. Where do they clone these people from?, they all sound exactly the same.
skipmur
2020-09-16 14:08:24 +0000 UTC
