Weekly Round Up: Solange, Jordyn’s Red Table and the Indo-Pak Student Solidarity Demo
Michael Jackson Abuse Scandal With the upcoming release of Dan Reed’s documentary Leaving Neverland on Channel 4 (it has already been shown on HBO in The US) the conversation about power and abuse within the music industry and celebrity spheres continues. Wade Robson, 36, and James Safechuck, 40,
language/politics/identities in Eastern Europe’s breakaway territories
After a lengthy interrogation by a Russian soldier, which included questions ranging from the etymology of my middle name to my dad’s job (but not, naturally, my mum’s), I was allowed to cross the border from Georgia into the sunny Republic of Abkhazia. The strange thing about this crossing, how
ART-ificial Intelligence: The Curious Case of Edmond De Belamy
In late October 2018, Christie’s, a fine art auction house, sold a portrait, a print on canvas. It shows an austere gentleman dressed in black – the eponymous Edmond de Belamy. It is one of a series of portraits of the Belamy family and by far the best known, though they all share the same
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 […