Arcane: Everyone is horny and no one is class-conscious
In his culture-defining article, ‘Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny’, RS Benedict writes of the infamous shower scene in Starship Troopers (1997): “No one looks at each other. No one flirts. A room full of beautiful, bare bodies, and everyone is only horny for war.” Nearly 30
Ecology of a scene, or Why Oxford is, and always will be, a wasteland of musical creativity
Wherever you find one, a music scene manifests as a live, twitching corpus, comprised of a vital collection of enveloping and intersecting components—most of which the city of dreaming spires lacks. It is this intricate network of connections and contradictions that give a scene its life, d
Who cares about the Oscars, anyway?
Yesterday’s Oscars brought a shiny, glamorous conclusion to awards season. In the current political climate, it can feel odd watching rich actors fight for golden statues in months-long press tours. I, for one, have lost count of how many celebrities I have watched eat chicken on YouTube in the la
Bashing your head against a wall: a guide to structural barriers to student activism
You are reading this, so you must be one of the few people who actually cares (a friend of mine once put it aptly: “I think the term ‘political apathy’ is too passive–most people actively do not give a fuck”). Still, this university experience is packaged into intense eight week bur
Icon of the Week: Martian Moves
Before their out-of-this-world parties, Martian Moves’ Luca Burgess, Michael Donlon, and Louis Bryan started mixing as a matter of necessity. Luca went to Pirate Studios during lockdown with mates simply because it “was one of the only places open during COVID”; after a surgery that mea
PRESSURE POINT: Elon Musk wants to take over our governments. Why are we letting him?
On Sunday, the German parliamentary elections took place, with a majority of seats going to right-wing candidates. The CSU, a Christian conservative group, secured the largest number of seats in the Bundestag, with 28.6% of the vote. However, it is without a doubt the second-place winners, the AfD (
Panda Porn and Jurassic Park: why should we conserve species that refuse to have sex?
You know the vac has reached a new low when you start searching up panda porn. Not the actual stuff—which is both visual and auditory for maximum stimulation—but the long Wikipedia article on it. “What sort of sick person creates this,” I hear you cry. The answer: some of the w
Icon of the Week: Patra
Patra Urairat performed her single ‘Aftercare’ live for the first time after its release in Univ Bar earlier this month. For the first time in her life, she had an audience screaming her lyrics back to her and dancing to the beats she and her partners had taken so long producing. I met he
PRESSURE POINT: Drawing the line in the Middle East
Bad ideas are being drawn up over the Middle East. Donald Trump has called for a US takeover of Gaza in order to turn it into the “riviera of the Middle East”, expelling 2.1 million Palestinians in the process. This is a proposal for ethnic cleansing on a level not seen since the Second [