Woke Capitalism

Culture, Power, Politics » Podcast · Jan 15, 2022 · 1h 22m

This is the last in the ‘This Conjuncture’ series of seminars hosted by the journal New Formations in Autumn 2021.

Corporate ‘wokeness’ puts positive messages deriving from radical politics to work in the interests of consumer capitalism. Join Rosalind Gill, Akane Kanai, and Francesca Sobande, who will develop an analysis of ‘woke capitalism’ beyond the reductive charge of selling out.

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Rosalind Gill is Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at City, University of London. She is the author, co-author or editor of many books and articles, including Gender and the Media…