Cultural Feelings

It is a commonplace to describe epochs in terms of feelings, moods and passions: the 1960s, we are told, swing; the 1950s are cool, austere, and conformist; the 1980s were a greedy decade.

Ben Highmore is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. His most recent books are The Great Indoors (2014) and Culture (2016). His book The Art of Brutalism: Rescuing Hope from Catastrophe in 1950s Britain is due to be published in 2017.

- Feeling our Way and Getting in the Mood (An Introduction) - Cultural Feelings (Some Theoretical Coordinates) - Morale Work (Experience Feeling Itself) - Bombsites and Playgrounds (A Wrecked, Indifferent Calm) - City of Strangers (Qualities of Disappointment) - Deep Doubts and Exorbitant Hopes (Something is Happening) - Mood, Generation, Nation (Feelings and Cultural Politics) - Post Referendum Blues (Postscript)