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Culture
Music, film, subcultures and ideas. What we make, watch and listen to, and what it says about us. 26 stories.
Logistics and Leviathan
Freddie Smith explores how both films reveal the hidden violence and scale of global industry, reshaping how we perceive time, labour and the exploitation of the sea.
Written by Freddie Smith
The Round Lake
Laila Ghaffar traces how The Round Lake collapses dystopian fiction into present reality, exposing the colonial and political structures driving water scarcity in Pakistan.
Written by Laila Ghaffar
La Sape
La Sape is a Congolese sartorial movement and subculture rooted in the reclamation of agency, power and identity.
Written by Ashley Zibiza
Learning from Satire
Exploring Satire and the 2019 Mister America, underscoring its importance but questioning its lack of impact.
Written by Freddie Smith
Black Voices In Country Music
How the work of Claudia Jones helps explain the lack of black recognition in country music.
Written by Ashley Zibiza
The Nonchalance of Suicide
Exploring how Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry approaches men's mental health.
Written by Freddie Smith
Community in Film through Food
Exploring the centrality of food and importance of community through Juzo Itami’s Tampopo.
Written by Freddie Smith
A Film About Soul-Searching
This article explores Joyland, a film about a young man who falls in love with a trans woman and navigates the ambiguity of his masculine identity.
Written by Lina Idrees
Black Political Struggle and its Iconography
Joseph Yorke-Wescott explores the different ways in which black struggle has been narrativised through time, highlighting how the idea of the Black Revolutionary ultimately relies on eventual death.
Written by Joseph Yorke-Westcott
Freshta
A conversation with the West London raised DJ and radio host.
Written by Dillon Gohil
A lot of us are very lonely
Henry Kidney explores Spike Jonze’s Her, relating growing loneliness to the ascendency of hyper-individualism.
Written by Henry Kidney
Spirituality in Jazz
John Coltrane is one of the most revered jazz musicians of all time, but many do not fully recognise the role of his wife Alice.
Written by Dillon Gohil
The Death of Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is dead and we have killed it, argues Owen Dawes.
Written by Owen Dawes
Reforming Education
Henry Kidney analyses British educational inequality using Wes Anderson’s Rushmore.
Written by Henry Kidney
The Other
Exploring Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland’s One Nation project, drawing parallels to the work of Marina Abramovic & Ulay in creating an ego-less identity underpinned by trust.
Written by Jai Toor
Go somewhere you’ve never been
Exploring the philosophy of Anthony Bourdain.
Written by Dillon Gohil
About Some Meaningless Events
Exploring the revolutionary potential of cinema through the 1974 Moroccan docu-fiction.
Written by Henry Kidney
A Grand Don’t Come For Free
Delving into the legacy and importance of Mike Skinner’s acclaimed concept album classic.
Written by Jai Toor
Empowerment or Fetishisation?
Exploring contested narratives of fetishisation, sexualisation, and violence in Tarantino’s Kill Bill films.
Written by Jasmine Joshi
Johnny 316
Dillon Gohil explores the lost-then-found indie film starring the controversial Vincent Gallo.
Written by Dillon Gohil
Cannibal Holocaust
Henry Kidney explores this controversial films reinforcement of the cannibal stereotype.
Written by Henry Kidney
THE FORGOTTEN SOUND OF EAST LONDON
Dillon Gohil explores their brief history of the influential AR Kane, within which by chance the duo created a new genre.
Written by Dillon Gohil
Alt-Right Gaming
How does coded language and iconography within the alt-right manifest in gaming?
Written by Jasmine Joshi
DEATH GRIPS & THE STATE OF PROTEST
Exploring whether music can still induce collective action in light of its commercialisation.
Written by Jasmine Joshi
A WEST SO WEIRD?
Whilst many reviewers of Bacurau cover the acclaimed Brazilian film’s deft manipulation of Post Western Cinema’s themes, few adequately discuss the specificities of Filho & Dornelles’ exploration of neocolonialism.
Written by Bertie Gmaj
GURDJIEFF’S FOURTH WAY
Can you achieve enlightenment without leading an asectic life?
Written by Dillon Gohil