ELECTRONIC POLITICS

Hosted by Luis Hewitt / EXHERMITT

First Year Law Student at Mansfield

OVERVIEW

ELECTRONIC POLITICS is a show exploring the use of electronic music as a political tool, for all kinds of causes and throughout many eras. Beginning as one of the most inaccessible genres, electronic music has slowly developed into a powerful vessel for subculture, handing back the power of innovation to the people themselves outside oppressive structures of conformity.

Each week focuses on how a specific theme has been presented meaningfully across a wide range of electronic-based subgenres, or explores the history of a specific movement. Each episode ends in a request from the student body and beyond for a song with a personal political meaning, and each season ends with an interview featuring a pioneering electronic artist whose music has influenced the show.

Feel free to send requests, ideas and discussions to mans4819@ox.ac.uk

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EPISODE LIST

Michaelmas Term 2023 (Season 1)

Ep. 1 - Class & Economic Politics

Ep. 2 - Gender Expression & Sexism

Ep. 3 - Transgressive Sexuality

Ep. 4 - Voices For The Voiceless

Ep. 5 - Special Episode featuring Matmos

Hilary Term 2023 (Season 2)

Ep. 1 - Fearing The Future; Environmental Activism, Digital Satire & Posthumanism

Ep. 2 - The History of Ballroom

Ep. 3 - Special Episode featuring Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

Trinity Term 2023 (Season 3)

Ep. 1 - How PC Music Made Consumerism Cool

Ep. 2 - Queer Trailblazers: The (Slightly Early) Pride Month Special

Ep. 3 - TBA

Ep. 4 - Special Episode featuring TBA