Inbetween Places; The Trouble of Transport in Travel
Ankara Bar crouches in a pothole between the alleys of Penang. The tattered sign above the door is barely visible through the limp streetlights, and the green water drooling out of the drains creeps up your feet the longer you squint to read it. The name of the shop can be a bit misleading. The [&he
Short Poems
Amongst the sprawling fragments of prose and poetry which make up William Carlos Williams’ Spring and All (1923) lies the following: so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens Everything about the presentation of these lines is u
The Politicisation of Tragedy or the Tragification of Politics?
What could the Grenfell Tower disaster possibly have to do with Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex? The answer is fairly obvious: not a lot. Yet in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, commentators across the political spectrum returned to that age-old debate concerning “the politicisation of tragedy”. On
Why do gallery visitors have no bodies?
Picture this. Someone dashes past you in a gallery, camera in hand, voraciously taking photographs of the famous works, passing swiftly by the others without paying them so much as a second look. How ubiquitous this occurrence has become. The focus on certain artworks — the famous ones — is not
12/10/17: The ISIS Presents Live Wire
★ ✩ ✮ ✯ ✰ ☆ ⋆★ ✩ ✮ ✯ ✰ ☆ ⋆★ ✩ ✮ ✯ ✰ ☆ ⋆ WE’RE BACK ! Thursday 1st week we’re kicking off with Live Wire. Get yourselves down to Cellar (God bless its sweaty soul) to bust a groove with freaks and funk lovers alike. Our compadres over at […]
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