Tory Crimes Against Cinematography
As this glorified JCR election of a Tory leadership contest heaves its way into a second month, the nation will be treated to the unedifying public spectacle of two Oxford alumni flirting with the Conservative Party membership. It’s all a bit Love Island, for retired bigots. However, if you swallo
100 years ago Virginia Woolf described ASMR. Why is it still taboo?
I have friends who readily watch videos where people play with slime, clean their kitchen sink or even pop another person’s spots. Even if you aren’t familiar with the term ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response), you might recognize the static-like sensation that permeates the head and neck
The Problem with Facebook
Like most people my age, I used Facebook throughout my teens. I still check the site every day, several times a day. Realistically, I check it several times an hour. Yet using Facebook never sat easily with me. It put me on edge, and I always vaguely meant to consider the exact reasons for these [&h
Requiem for the Simulation Generation
‘Watched from the wings as the scenes were replaying’ The fatalistic lyrics from Joy Division’s Decades couldn’t have been more appropriate. The clementine hegemon was stood atop the rostra in Washington, regurgitating sound bites on a bleak mid-winter day. I was reduced to a slumped spectat
All that glitters is not (digital) gold: the uncertain future of Bitcoin
We want to believe today that technology will set us free. Having experienced the immense changes of the technological and internet revolutions, we find the world a freer place today than it has ever been, a world of unparalleled freedom of information. We wonder where the next force of revolutionar
Niche Numbers: #1
Jake Kennedy and Jamie Tahsin bring you some of their favourite songs with < 50,000 views on YouTube in the first episode of their NicheNumbers podcast.
