Where does culture come from?

The LRB Podcast

London Review of Books

Society & Culture

4.4 • 581 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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The word ‘culture’ now drags the term ‘wars’ in its wake, but this is too narrow an approach to a concept with a much more capacious history. In the closing LRB Winter Lecture for 2024, Terry Eagleton examines various aspects of that history – culture and power, culture and ethics, culture and critique, culture and ideology – in an attempt to broaden the argument and understand where we are now. Terry Eagleton delivered this lecture as part of the LRB's Winter Lecture series at St James's Church, Clerkenwell, London on 27 March 2024. Read Terry Eagleton’s lecture in the LRB: https://lrb.me/eagletonwl Watch the lecture on YouTube: https://lrb.me/eagletonwlyt Find out more about Bluets here: https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/bluets/ LRB Audio Discover the LRB's subscription podcast, Close Readings, and audiobooks: https://lrb.me/audiopod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Thomas Jones, host of the LRB podcast, and before we begin today's episode,
0:05.2	I'd like to tell you about Bluettes, a play opening next month at the Royal Court Theatre in London,
0:11.2	starring Ben Wishaw, Emma Darcy and Kayla Michael.
0:15.2	Based on Maggie Nelson's book, Bluettes is a meditation on love and grief,
0:20.0	a story about depression and desire, pleasure and pain,
0:23.2	and a person obsessed with the colour blue.
0:26.0	It's adapted for the stage by Margaret Perry
0:28.0	and directed by Katie Mitchell,
0:29.8	and it runs at the Royal Court
0:31.0	from the 17th of May to the 29th of June.
0:34.3	Click on the link in the description to book tickets.
0:53.9	Music of June. Click on the link in the description to book tickets. You're listening to the London Review of Books podcast.
0:55.3	This week we have Terry Eagleton's LRB Winter Lecture,
0:58.6	delivered, despite his having a chest infection,
1:01.3	at St James's Church Clarkenwell on the 27th of March, 2024,
1:05.4	on the question of where does culture come from,
1:08.3	and there'll be an audience Q&A at the end.
1:17.3	Thank you.
1:18.2	Yes, I'm not in the best of health, I'm afraid.
1:21.6	But nevertheless, dauntless, I rose from my sick bed in Ireland
1:27.0	and crossed the sea in order to be with you this evening.
1:32.3	And I put it like that, so to extract the maximum amount of pathos from the situation.
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