A more ethical approach to consumerism?
Blockchain technology could have a ground-breaking influence on consumerism, but what is it, why is it useful and are there reasons to be sceptical of its impact? In April of 2013 a building collapsed in Bangladesh. Over 1,100 people died. The managers of the garment factories on six of its e
Fiction
The following pages were found in the female toilets of the Wyevale Garden Centre Oxford, along with a large shopping bag containing goldfish food, a chimenea, and a kit to assemble an Alexander Rose Turnberry 2-Seater Bench. A friend of mine, who happens to work weekends in the Weed Control departm
WOMEN IN COLOUR
The shoot started off as a simple exploration of makeup – how we use it, how we don’t, how we love it, how we don’t. It’s a strange tension that unravels into latent discomfort the more I think about it. Why do I use makeup? If it’s empowering, why am I paying for it? The […]
Poetry
The hired car rolls, wriggling down south along the river, away from the colonial glamour of the Bund (among which is gemmed their hotel: young, alcoholic, cosmopolitan), towards, now visible in quiet prominence, the PSA, with its clean geometry: concrete box & long line of a smokestack, stickin
Weekly Roundup: AI, Gay Rights and High-Speed Trains
Shamima Begum, IS teenage bride, wants to return One of three schoolgirls who left east London in 2015 to join the Islamic State group says she has no regrets, but wants to return to the UK in order to have her child. There’s been a lot more coverage of British men leaving to join ISIS […
Poetry
reading your facial expressions i interpret screenplay, dramatizations of us rendered larger than life in a rousing performance of scientific discovery you softly diagnose anatomical anomalies: brow bone, lumbar vertebrae, clavicle – skin-adhered-eyes in lab-issue goggles, curiosity unchecked,
Remembering the Emo Music of the Midwest
704 West High Street in the college town of Urbana, Illinois is no ordinary house. Lying in a leafy midwestern suburb, with weeds pushing through the sidewalk cracks and an overgrown front yard, a passerby could be forgiven for not looking twice at its bleached horizontal planks and single window. J
Investigations
A background throb of birds and insects. Then the quiet chanting, tinny and dampened as if playing through a radio. Then the gentle scraping and clacking of tea being made as the black title screen fades to a beautiful palette of browns, and we first see Kusum. My second viewing of Burning Birds fee