GUILLOTINE: In defence of Flat Earthers
Søren Kirkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript has a funny little story: a lunatic escapes from an asylum. He goes into the city and knows they’ll toss him right back in there when they catch him, so he settles on a way to definitively prove his sanity. The madman finds a little r
Stop calling me pretentious.
Everyone needs to stop calling me pretentious. Right now. This detestable designation has sept into our contemporary cultural like a viral infection of the kidney, and it fails me to launch a moral crusade against it. It’s a vacant phrase, a tool for the uneducated to attack the righteous.
Getting into Art, in broad strokes
‘Everyone in Oxford has an opinion on modern art,’ says Theo Joly, OUDS President and co-director of Art, a new play showing this week at the BT Studio. ‘The person who talks about modern art in the smoking area—we all know someone like that. It’s so annoying.’ Art is an od
Icon of the Week: Overheard at Oxford
‘Britain has an underincarceration problem.’ Is this The Isis’ latest thought-provoking Guillotine, designed to scandalise ? Or just another anonymous submission to Overheard at Oxford, reflecting the casual provocations that flow through student consciousness? The fact th
Should we seek a Vatican-core summer?
Last Thursday, white smoke emerged from the roof of the Sistine Chapel, signalling to the world that the College of Cardinals had reached their decision. A new Pope was chosen—the inheritor of the seat of Saint Peter. Amidst the more traditional Catholic chants of ‘Viva il Papa’
GUILLOTINE: Modernity is inherently pornographic (Or, A Critique of ‘The Gooning Ideology’)
Foreword – A MODEST NOTE OF APPEAL Dear Citizen Lowenberg, Citizen Bilsland’s ‘The Gooning Ideology’ raises interesting ideas in light of Enlightenment republican virtues. However—it misses the point. The objective of gooning is never merely a ‘masturb
The nameless crime
This is not a Netflix show. On 24 April, 15-year-old Lorène was stabbed 57 times in her classroom in Nantes by 16-year-old Justin P., and died. Her killer then proceeded to another classroom, where he stabbed three more students, leaving one critically injured. Moments earlier,
The tradwife complacency pipeline
The internet loves girlhood. More specifically, the internet loves content about girlhood, most often accompanied by pictures of timid looking deer. There are lots of quotes from The Virgin Suicides and The Bell Jar and Little Women. There are lots of pictures of girls, too, if you keep looking.
Icon of the Week: Ruskin Artistic Football Club
‘Our legs are paintbrushes, the pitch is the canvas.’ This is a fitting motto for the RAFC, Oxford’s (and probably the world’s) only Artistic Football Club. But standing in the watch pitch at the team’s match in Uni Parks, it’s not the team’s visuals that are str