What does the “yes” vote mean for women in Turkey?
As the last votes of the Turkish referendum were counted in April, and they watched President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan celebrate his victory, many Turkish women feared for their homeland. Turkey had become a twisted orchestra, as a chorus of “yes” campaigners roared for Erdoğan’s new-found execu
Oxford students angered by decline in standards of homophobic abuse in tutorials
Students at the University of Oxford have been speaking out against the serious decline in standards of homophobic abuse during tutorials. ‘In my first Physics tutorial of last term my tutor just made a few underhand comments about lifestyle choices and some bad jokes which involved homophobic slu
Empty Spaces
At the beginning of 2017 the social activist project ‘Iffley Open House’ occupied an empty building owned by an Oxford University college to house the city’s homeless. In February, the college sought to evict them and we took a look at the project and its repercussions.
The Snapshot Collective: Spring Corner, New York, Melanie Einzig (2000)
A double-denim man walks into frame with a cockatoo perched on his shoulder. A Rottweiler skulks on the sidewalk, its eyes fixated to the right. A couple embrace for what seems like an eternity. Amidst them all, a lone character seemingly exhausted by life slumps dejectedly, the peak of his hat poin
Restless Modernity: How sleeplessness reflects the peculiarities of contemporary life
“We live as we dream — alone…”—Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Attempting to characterise any period of history by one quality or sensation is, at best, a good way to cause an argument: at worst, a lazy oversimplification. Is the zeitgeist of a given era something that is generated
Male Nude, Man Ray (1933)
I remember my primary school art teacher exclaiming with impatience over a rather wonky still life sketch of a shoe: “Where are these black lines you’re drawing? Do you really see them?” What she meant was that real things, made of matter, don’t appear with black felt-tip outlines. Man
The Age of Extinguished Reason
We have not always had light. According to Hesiod’s epic poem, ‘Theogony’, the luxury of light was hidden by Zeus as a cruel punishment for deception. Prometheus, in an act of treachery, stole fire from Mount Olympus by smuggling a lit torch to mankind. His punishment was eternal – chained t
Gaia
“Look at its spine, Josh,” Daiyu said. The hologram flickered in front of the two of us as she scrolled through 2-D slices, presenting cross sections of a creature resembling a small, ape-like mammal. Or maybe a monkey, I’d forgotten which one used to have the tail. The perspectives th
13/06/17: The Oxford Documentary Society presents: The ISIS
The Oxford Documentary Society is very pleased to announce this event to end our year. We present The ISIS. Screening are documentaries from their broadcasting team—showcasing some of Oxford’s finest work in the field at the moment. These films have a far reaching variety in terms of their subje