Lenses of identity
Exploring cameras as artefacts of memory and self
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Features
Art is power. Power is art.
Investigating the relationship between cultural sovereignty and Congolese emancipation
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Review: VCDS’s Metamorphoses
How, through tragedy, Metamorphoses teaches its audience to love
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Simulacra and stimulation
It’s a two syllable word that is everywhere and nowhere at once. Taboo—easy to miss, yet glaringly obvious. But what does it mean today with the commodification of art? In 2024, A24 released the movie Babygirl, which is about a powerful CEO who engages in a BDSM relationship with her much younger male intern. In
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Phil Ochs: The forgotten voice of protest folk
I can’t stop thinking about the 60s. Today’s world events seem like a strange, disjointed sequel to the events of that time – of protest movements and backlash, of crimes against humanity and their sponsors, of political repression and blacklisting. One voice from that time keeps coming back to me: Phil Ochs, a largely forgotten
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“Gin will make you blind!”
“Old wives’ tales,” dementia, and piecing together the metaphysical enigma that is my grandmother’s life “Y’know, my mother always told me that gin would make you blind, and that’s also what Äiti (Äiti means “mother” in Finnish, but has become synonymous in our family with my great great grandmother’s name) said to her, so I’ve
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Wake up sheeple?
Conspiracies and pseudoscience: how “crunchy” ideals can go hand-in-hand with right-wing politics The term ‘sheeple’ has become popular within many communities to denote groups who are seemingly “brainwashed” by any large institution. But who really are the “sheeple”? And what are they expected to believe when they “wake up”? According to psychoanalyst Manfred Kets de
Why we love the rats in our walls
The strange paradox of student apartments If you’ve ever lived in a student apartment, you already know the script: the shower that you can never quite get clean, the landlord who ghosts you once rent is paid, the mysterious smell that no amount of Febreze can fix. My place, the bottom half of a creaky
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