Volume 68

Approaching the situation with misinformed caution

Poetry, Volume 68 Issue 2 / By

Want,desire,yearning,pining, craving,weight… waiting.The sickness,aching,longing.Whatever the word may be to describe the hot burning sensation that pools in your gut and spreads through your body like wildfire.Each torch you dropped did not snuff out, the amber still burns blue. You stuff and stuff and stuff to no surprise, you remain unsatisfied.The definition of insanity is“doing the […]

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The Bach-bowel movement: no. 2 in A minor

Poetry, Volume 68 Issue 2 / By

When melancholy strikes,and my laundry piles up,a 13-year-old bloodhoundthe size of two American footballsmaterialises between the layers of rough jeans, synthetic wools,and a couple freshly washed pairs of thongs. Here he slobbers.Profusely.Heaving in heavy distress,as if to bring to my attention the gravest offence of my existence –that he has NEVER, not ONCE,been taken on

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Train Dreams

Arts and Culture, Volume 68, Volume 68 Issue 2, Web Exclusive / By

Or, the Roger’s experience of America’s making Train Dreams a film directed by Clint Bentley and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 4–14, 2025 Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams—an adaptation of Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella of the same title—has the same sentimentality and prodigious lens flare as an Ozempic advertisement. It’s important to establish

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Vaulting ambition o’erleaps itself in del Toro’s Frankenstein

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Frankenstein a film directed by Guillermo del Toro and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 4–14, 2025 In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Victor’s ambitions lead him astray. How ironic, then, that Guillermo del Toro’s lofty aspirations to vivify this classic novel end in disaster. With any literary adaptation, fans will naively point to

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Sometimes spectacle isn’t quite spectacular

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Egghead Republic is a multifaceted film about many things. Possibly, a bit too much. Egghead Republic a film written and directed by Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja, and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 4–14, 2025. Speculative art often has a way of being quite . . . lacklustre. The ground mandatory to

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Is AI the future of the art world?

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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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Resisting AI

Science, Volume 68, Volume 68 Issue 1 / By

Flaws and definitions Chat, what is AI?  ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the field of computer science focused on creating systems or machines that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. These tasks include learning from experience, understanding language, recognizing patterns, solving problems, and making decisions’ (“Define artificial intelligence”).  Similarly, in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, AI

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