“Culture is stagnant, so politics is stuck” – playwright James Graham | Radical Thinking

October 25, 202647:28

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Are we doomscrolling our way into a democratic crisis? That’s what the playwright James Graham fears may be happening, as he suggests that our algorithms have led us into ‘a massive crisis of the new’ and are preventing us from imagining a different future. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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