Speaker

Soma Ghosh

Follow

Founding editor of The Demented Goddess

Soma Ghosh is a cultural critic, cabaret performer and founding editor of cult polysexual magazine The Demented Goddess. The magazine explores gender, belonging and creativity across the arts, from rock and electronic music to street art and ‘terrorist pornography’ by women. She writes reviews and essays on sexuality, race and gender in popular culture for The Quietus, The Irish Times, Little White Lies and more.

Soma Ghosh is a cultural critic, cabaret performer and founding editor of cult polysexual magazine The Demented Goddess. The magazine explores gender, belonging and creativity across the arts, from rock and electronic music to street art and ‘terrorist pornography’ by women. She writes reviews and essays on sexuality, race and gender in popular culture for The Quietus, The Irish Times, Little White Lies and more.

More Videos

Could sex robots be good for us?

Mark Salter, Helen Croydon, John Milbank, Robin Ince

The Shame Game

Joel Dinerstein

The Secret History of Cool

Mark Salter, Anders Sandberg, Helen Croydon, Naomi Goulder

Love Story

Jo Marchant, Colin Tudge, Richard K. Morgan, Rebecca Roache

Paradise Lost?

James Ladyman, Anders Sandberg, Noortje Marres, Timandra Harkness

Is Big Data A Big Mistake?

Eileen Barker, Phil Rickman, Ariane Sherine

The Weird and the Wonderful

Christopher Hamilton, Shahidha Bari, Anders Sandberg, Steve Carter

Love Me Tinder

Sex and Love in the Digital Age

Brooke Magnanti, Kate Devlin, Alan Winfield, Shahidha Bari

Sex Robots and Love Machines

Barry C. Smith, Nicholas Humphrey, Brooke Magnanti, Neil Strauss

The Chemistry of Desire

Minette Marrin, Rowan Pelling, Caspar Melville, Andrea Beckmann

Venus In Furs

The Future of Sex Robots and Relationships

The Case Against Marriage

Bella dePaulo, Heidi Rice, Anders Sandberg, Robert Rowland Smith

Love, Life and Being Free

Jonathan Derbyshire, Simon Glendinning, Kate Williams, Ed Stafford

Myself and Others

Robert Rowland Smith, Helen Croydon, Susan Quilliam, Kit Opie

A Fairytale Romance

Jasper Fforde, Serena Kutchinsky, Sarah Churchwell, Munira Mirza

Culture Shock

Catherine Hakim, Steve Fuller, Robert Rowland Smith, Dinesh Bhugra

Desire, Dreams and Happiness

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Janne Teller, Nigel Inkster, Stephanie Hare, Ella Whelan

The Dark and the Digital

Steve Fuller, Cory Doctorow, , Kate Russell

Is Facebook Evil?

What's Love Got To Do With It?

Shahidha Bari, Helen Lederer, Steve Taylor, Susann Babaie

Vanity, Victory and Vice

Finn Mackay, Ritula Shah, Chris Bryant, Brendan O'Neill

In Search of Safety

Iain McGilchrist, Peter Hacker, Joanna Kavenna, Henrietta Moore

The New Romantics

Douglas Murray, Elleke Boehmer, Toby Young, Nigel Warburton

Canon Under Fire

Not Only Rock 'n' Roll

James Ladyman, Zing Tsjeng, Tom Hodgkinson, Adam Pearson

Glory Versus Passion

21st Century Cults

Godfrey Barker, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Griselda Pollock, Dennis Marks

Is Love Real?

Ritula Shah, George Galloway, Suzannah Lipscomb

Vanity Fair

Angie Hobbs, Brooke Magnanti, Robert Eaglestone, Barnaby Martin

The End of Romance?

Catherine Hakim, Robert Rowland Smith, Ritula Shah, Brooke Magnanti

Living Differently

Lauren Booth, Rowan Pelling, Peter Hitchens, Daniel Miller

The Devil's Parties

Nell Leyshon, Jez Butterworth, Paul Kingsnorth

The Old Gods: England's Mythic Past

Iain Edgar, Susan Blackmore, Caspar Melville, Edward Skidelsky, Peter Hitchens

Drug Culture

Dylan Evans, Don Paterson, Doon Mackichan, Suzannah Lipscomb

Fantasy Living

The Death Drive

Barry C. Smith, Peter York, Samantha Roddick, Robert Eaglestone

Thinking and Being

Sean Curran, Sarah Chan, Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Daniel Everett, Bruce Parry

Noble Ancestors and Modern Selves

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Europe's most promiscuous tribe

Don Cupitt on Progress

Socrates vs. Jesus

The Dark Side of Success

Frank Furedi, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Michael Hastings, Ben Hammersley

Childhood's End

Michael Crick, Oliver Burkeman, Helen Lederer, Erwin James

Dreamland

This Extraordinary World

Frank Furedi, Joanna Kavenna, Jasper Fforde

Visions of Apocalypse

Caspar Melville, Steve Richards, Lyse Doucet, Carl Miller

Twitter and Power

Joanna Kavenna, Peter York, Jim Crace, Paul Rose

Live Fast, Die Young