‘Culture is stagnant, so politics is stuck’ – playwright James Graham | Radical Thinking

“文化停滞不前,政治也因此陷入僵局”——剧作家詹姆斯·格雷姆 | 革命性思考

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2026-10-25

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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/infocus
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  • Democracy is a story we began to tell 2,000 years ago and we've stopped telling it.

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  • We've slept walked into a massive crisis of the new.