You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.

The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.

[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.