A review of DEPOT ‘25
‘Fusion Arts connects artists with communities promoting dynamic creative projects that drive social justice and celebrate diversity. Fusion Arts is a catalyst for creativity in Oxford and beyond.’ – The Fusion Arts brochure I’m no stranger to the pretensions of the Art World. My
Smoking. Hot?
The slim tube of paper rests elegantly between my fingers—I can almost inhale a swirl of smoke emerging from it. ‘Are you going to eat that lollipop?’ my mother asks. I gingerly turn the sweet the right way round and suck on sugar instead of fictional nicotine (not that I am awa
Putting the fiction back in fiction
Despite the havoc that the ‘spell pharaoh’ video wreaked in 2021, in the internet age, it is impossible not to define yourself by the media you consume. Eventually everybody will find themselves on #BookTok, or [insert cursive font here] film Twitter, or one of the millions of K-Pop Faceb
Bush!—The Dreampolitik of Comic Purity
Bush! The Musical by The Mollys Productions had the last show of its run at the Moser Theatre, Wadham College on Saturday 31 May, 2025 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the Internet in the turbulent year of 2022. In the final days of Weimar […]
‘Bops’, the new right, and woman-hating
I have deleted the Instagram App from my phone. In clearing my life of useless information (like photos of beloved family and friends, and the activities of my peers), I have found the space to devote my attention to what really matters; the Snapchat Explore page. Snapchat’s
GUILLOTINE: Stop killing fictional Nazis
Nazi soldiers get a hard time in the movies. They’re Hollywood’s cartoon villains; from Indiana Jones to Inglorious Basterds, we love to watch those frankfurter eating fascists get blown to bits, battered with baseball bats, or, naturally, have their faces melted off. They’ve been writt
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
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
Fellas, is it gay to read a book?
The Saturday before last was a particularly sunny one. Although I didn’t have much time in my day to spend outside, I decided to take a break and spend half an hour or so reading an actual, physical book. I grabbed my book (On The Road by Jack Kerouac) and opened my window. My […]
