Luna Park and the Clownification of Public Amenities
“It's like you’ve entered another world, transported through the looking glass, except it was a funhouse mirror and you’ve just joined the circus.”
Let's Bring Ostracism Back!
“Sometimes I worry that I'm him. But I’m not really. I’ve mastered authenticity. So have you. Well, maybe you don’t like this person because they’re kind of fake. This poser has fooled everyone into thinking they’re genuine. Isn’t that unfair?”
Have you seen the Bangkok aquarium?
“To situate myself within the vast, exhilarating, and exotic waves of this grand tourist city was to engage in a mercurial pursuit — a perilous, ambiguous dance.”
Unreal Estate
What makes a space?
“Just like anyone else with a Pinterest board dedicated to vintage furniture, Levy’s mental exercise resonated with me. But I am an inheritor of a different world.”
Running out of time: charli XCX, Children & the Environment
“it’s unlikely you’ll be performing another Boiler Room set with an infant. So likely yes. Charli sees her life branching out before her, ripe with opportunity.”
Mucha, So Confusing
“To say, “this is a cigarette ad”, in the same way I can say, “this is a pillow”, or “this is a bookmark”. But isn’t summing it up reductive?”
Please, Please, Please Father: Catholic Repression and Irish Boy Obsession
These men are vulnerable, honest, and embarrassed. Hot, hot, and hot. We want them to be a little nervous, a little objectified. They don’t want us looking at them! It’s fun, right? And really, after all the money for acting school or the Trinity College drama course, surely, they should’ve expected this?
Geo metrics
your eyes wander to their new leaves
curling at the sky -
110 emblazoned to the left of the screen,
you search for truth in their cycles but
Being Killed To The Limits of Eternity: Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Pasolini cleverly subverts the cinematic techniques of excitement to be in service of pure horror.
Watching Men Wrestle: Sport and the Female Gaze
While male athletic achievement is an aesthetic ideal immortalised in the Hellenistic visions of Greek sculpture up to the fake-tanned contorted bodies of bodybuilders, female athleticism is an object of horror.”
On Critical Thinking: Why it's good to have hate in your heart
Criticism falls short in the digital-age because our reality has become delusion.
Praying Hill
“The Corsicans want to see clearly. Freedom must walk by the torch of philosophy. Won't they say that we fear the light?"
What we cannot see, the camera can
Our eyes can only see so much, and they see cities very poorly.
Do androids dream of a socialist utopia?
If androids come about, what will they do, and I guess, more pertinently to our human future, what will we do?
The Future is in Love with the Past
In the mystical worlds of science fiction, the past may be our only tool for understanding the future.