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Want to understand the British election? Look online and listen to grime

  • Written by Nicholas D. Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
imageGrime Jme MC with Labour candidate Jeremy Corbin.

Why did no one who gets paid for their opinion see Britain’s election result coming? Or Brexit? Or the Trump election? Perhaps everyone’s looking and listening in the wrong places.

Britain, like everywhere else in the capitalist world, is now a visual culture, as I showed in my book &ldquo...

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