The Mind’s a Stage: Cinema’s journey into our heads
Neuroscientists at Berkeley, University of California, last year posted a video on YouTube, revealing the results of years of research. The video documented experiments in which they had scanned the brain activity of various subjects engaged in watching short films. They then endeavoured to translat
The future of happiness
Are you happy? Is the person sitting next to you, if there is any such, happy? I don’t know; perhaps even you don’t know. I do however feel confident telling you that, whenever you are reading this copy of ISIS, right now Anders Sandberg is happy.
Sounds of freedom and songs of change
It is the 31st of January 2011. Egypt begins its sixth day of widespread and escalating protests against the corruption of Hosni Mubarak and his government. Cairo draws the largest and most tenacious numbers, undaunted by the recent internet and mobile blackout, increasing military violence, and new
ISIS presents… SMASH HITS! at Babylove
ISIS is taking over Babylove for the first time this term SMASH HITS! from the likes of KATE BUSH/MACY GRAY/ADAM AND THE ANTS/MADONNA/BLONDIE Come down if you are interested in getting involved in next term’s ISIS, have a pitch, or want to speak to the editors or creative team Wednesday 24th of Oc
Brighton Beach
This was captured in Brighton Beach, one of Brooklyn’s most colorful neighborhoods. It is populated by the elderly parents of Russian immigrants and a stream of novelty pilgrims. Requiem for a Dream was shot here, and the locals sometimes make it look like filming is still in process. I w
Student Documentary Premiere: Stadium Hotel
Stadium Hotel A Portrait of Lagos and its Musicians in the Years After Independence Lagos, Nigeria, 1960. Highlife, a West African musical form which had been developing since the early twentieth century, was at its peak. In the years that followed Independence, a young generation of musicians playe
God’s own country? Communism in Kerala
Away from the luxury hotels, souvenir shops and restaurants, there were blazing red flags, election posters, hammers and sickles painted on faded walls. Battered cars drove round with loudspeakers blaring out campaign slogans in Malayalam, the language of the state. But there is no Stalinist governm
Multilating Words, by Michael Hunt
The first in a selection of poems we will be publishing from the ISIS Magazine Poetry Competition.