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Oct 21, 20195 min read

The Rise Of Unvaried Diversity: Representation Matters, But Only If You’re ________?

The representation of minorities in mainstream media, or rather lack thereof, has been an issue for years. It’s only in the past decade...

Oct 15, 20193 min read

Bodies in Boxes: Should Human Remains Be Displayed in Museums?

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Mummified hand from the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon When I visited the Pompeii exhibition during its...

Oct 13, 20194 min read

Making Sense of Sound

“Maybe sorry is the closest I ever got to expressing love.” Jenny Hval, via Tom Øverlie (Flickr) Ruminations on love; the ecosystem of a...

Nov 23, 20185 min read

Urban Chronicles - A portrait on Iain Sinclair

You can find the original version of this article on the Funzel Iain Sinclair, one could say, is obsessed with London. The Last London,...

Oct 1, 20186 min read

An Environmental 1789

Didn’t you hear it? The planet’s ominous cry? A summer raided by record fires, heat waves and floods. Didn’t you sense a certain anxiety?...

Oct 12, 20173 min read

Strandlines - Lives along Strand

From an article on ‘Gaiety George’, successful shows that ran at the Strand’s Gaiety theatre during the 1890s and 1900s and its female...

Aug 15, 20173 min read

The Multiple Purposes of Art

“Art for Art’s sake”, insisted the French poet Théophile Gautier in the early 19th century. This is an attractive notion, but is it that...

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