Jeans and meanings passed down
How clothes reflect an era’s zeitgeist
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Arts and Culture
Is AI the future of the art world?
Examining the intertwined history of art and technology Recently, humanity has witnessed a rapid evolution in the quality of artificially-generated images. From humble six-fingered and disproportionate beginnings, AI images have become nearly indistinguishable from the hand-drawn. As AI grows more sophisticated, it continues to creep into our everyday lives. Businesses are adopting AI logos and
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Is your attention span longer than a goldfish’s?
Your guide to the attention recession The ‘attention economy’ has been called into question in light of struggles with maintaining focus in today’s increasingly busy world. This way of thinking about attention goes beyond psychological focus, including the political and social aspects involved with attention. While every generation has had fears that technological advancement would
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Streaming killed the TV star
With endless content available, why does it still feel like there’s nothing good on TV? Despite the amount of content spoonfed to us by streaming services, it sometimes seems like there’s nothing worth watching anymore. As streaming service companies harbour more than enough data to cater to viewers’ exact entertainment preferences, TV should be thriving.
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In defense of pop music
An exploration of pop, jazz, and the importance of diversity in music As an unapologetic fan of popular music, watching this year’s 67th Grammy Awards was a delight. The most anticipated awards of the night went to Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter for Album of the Year, Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” for Song of the Year
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Feminism’s forgotten love revolution
How the quest for true love inspired a generation of feminists When I was younger, an obsessive reverence rooted in fear of the power of romantic love led to substantial time spent reading (and allegedly publishing) fiction in online communities such as AO3, fanfiction.net, Ww*ttpad, and even… Quotev. As I blossomed from an awkward teenager
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Engaging with erotica through an asexual lens Erotica—media portraying sex or its elements—has two uses. Its surface-level purpose is to sexually arouse the viewer. Its second function is to allow the audience to explore artistry, aesthetics, and psychology through a more nuanced lens than what is otherwise found or permitted in non-suggestive contexts, while being
Finding community through history on stage
An interview with writer/director Mashreka Mahmood about her new play 71 The Strand: As you are both the writer and director, could you walk through the process of developing the show? How long did it take and what was that process like? Mashreka Mahmood: I wrote my last show over the summer of 2022, and
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Aesthetics, fascism and Gen Z
Is our generation as progressive as we thought? Donald Trump is set to begin his second term on January 20, 2025, this time having secured both the Electoral College and the popular vote. While we are quick to assume his reelection is a sign of a greater fall into a fascist oligarchy, that assumption does
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Risky art and artful risks
How taking the creative plunge can result in the most meaningful cultural impacts Well-behaved artists have seldom made history. Creating art in a world that often favours mass appeal over individual creativity is in itself an act of nonconformity. When looking at artists whose work transcends the confines of history into the present, their moments
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