“The British will go down in history for being the absolute assholes of the world” – Lawrence Weiner
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Hojskøle: an alternative education
The ISIS Broadcasting Director Ruby O’Grady presents a short documentary on Hojskøle, a unique form of education in Denmark.
What We’re Into: Staff Picks
Playing with the Boys is the book that I dreamt of writing as a teenager. In a straightforward style, it recounts the challenges overcome by sixteen-year-old Niamh McKevitt when playing football throughout her childhood and adolescence. From playground pettiness to artificial barriers imposed by the
The City Within a City: Notes on the Square Mile
There is something uniquely disconcerting about the void where a demolished building once stood. You try and pick out the spots in the air where people walked through doors, along corridors, or up and down flights of stairs. It is as unsettling as ancient hills are strangely comforting in their age,
ISIS Mix 002: Lu Williams
Ruskin student and Supermarket resident DJ Lu Williams steps up for this week’s ISIS Mix, with a weird and wonked out selection of glitchy pop. “This mix and most mixes released under Bitchcraft are witch house, influenced by contemporary hip hop or 90s garage, kinda like &
ISIS Mix 001: David King
David King steps up for the inaugural ISIS Mix, the first of a new series in which Oxford's best student DJs put together a selection of the tracks that have influenced them.
Baring My Bones
‘Things just feel… so bleak, somehow. So overwhelmingly, inescapably bleak,’ I mumbled, voice monotone, eyes dead. I was eighteen, but my brain and bones, ravaged by seven years of cruel anorexia and vicious bulimia, felt at least eighty. Curled like a melancholic tadpole opposite my psycholog
What We’re Into: Staff Picks
I’m a big fan of Readux Books, a Berlin-based publisher which produces beautifully designed pocket-sized works of translated fiction, so I was pleased to find this essay by its founder in the LA Review of Books. It’s a clever meditation on the paradoxes of translation, which expresses it
Beyond the Numbers
In Budapest, a city of some 1.7 million people, life goes on apparently as normal. Locals and tourists bustle about in the wide avenues, and the dramatic scenes of a couple of weeks ago—crowds of migrants flooding around Keleti Station or through the streets—have largely subsided. But, beneath t