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  • Everything Familiar: A Liturgy of the Feed

    Everything Familiar: A Liturgy of the Feed

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    In her observational essay, Ella Dean tackles contemporary social media streams that are beginning to shape the way we interact and behave in real time, whether we like it or not.  You are plucked from your everyday life—your walk around the block—and are… Read More

  • Prostitution (1976): Parasocial Relationships and the Issue of Cult Followings

    Prostitution (1976): Parasocial Relationships and the Issue of Cult Followings

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    In an astute examination of one of the ICA’s most controversial exhibitions, Sasha Ehrhard examines COUM Transmissions’ attempt to subvert the relentless consumption of pop cultural figures. On December 8th, 1980, John Lennon was shot outside of his home by his obsessed fan,… Read More

  • Alter Christus: The Cult of Video Game Personalities and Why it Has Got Out of Hand

    Alter Christus: The Cult of Video Game Personalities and Why it Has Got Out of Hand

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    In a sharp analysis of the state of contemporary video gaming, Andrea Sini offers a well-observed prognosis for an industry becoming insidiously devoted to its newfound messianic figures. When we take a look at the state of the gaming industry in 2025, briefly… Read More

  • Jennifer Walton

    Jennifer Walton

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    Goldsmiths student and music journalist Sasha Mills speaks with the musician and DJ Jennifer Walton to commemorate her new album Daughters. To set the record straight, experimental musician and DJ Jennifer Walton has not attended Goldsmiths at any point in her life. Despite… Read More

  • Becoming With

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    As we enter the proposed era of the Anthropocene, or Age of the Human, it is clear that our way of being human is damaging a once vibrant kinship with the earth. We continue to sever [1] ourselves from our ecosystems, discarding a… Read More

  • Vignettes of Parallel Lifetimes

    Vignettes of Parallel Lifetimes

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    >> The progenitor, notionally, is a paragon of virtuosity_ In abstraction, we seek from them the moral criterion for an earthbound existence, institutionalised to the ninth degree in theological dogma turned political doctrine. >> Self-spoken, their godhood provides sanctuary for the human condition.… Read More

  • Acts of Kindness

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    U Smart by Phoebe Ngozi Nadorp My strong-willed cousin, Chi-Chi, is a grand 7 years of age. At a towering 100cm in height, she already has the confidence I desperately grasp at, and so seldom attain. Last Christmas, while all family members gathered… Read More

  • Contemporary British Eco-fiction. Embracing Nature in Daisy Hildyard’s Emergency (2022)

    Contemporary British Eco-fiction. Embracing Nature in Daisy Hildyard’s Emergency (2022)

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    Introduction Set in Yorkshire, this novel Emergency (2022) is a foray into life beyond the realms of what we think nature is capable of. It follows the story of an unnamed female protagonist who seeks shelter in nature amidst the chaos of village… Read More

  • ‘Algeria Unveiled’ (1959) and The Veiling of Memory

    ‘Algeria Unveiled’ (1959) and The Veiling of Memory

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    ‘The phenomena of resistance observed in the colonised must be related to an attitude of counter-assimilation, of maintenance of a cultural, hence national, originality.’ (Fanon, 1959) My photographs are all based off an excerpt of Frantz Fanon’s ‘Algeria Unveiled’ (1959) – all based… Read More

  • Deep Cleaning Astringent

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    A particularly bad specimen, erupting from Jade’s skin this early March morning: going yellow at its outer edges, white in its horrible molten core. Right cheek: dead center. Claudia has been picturing placing a finger each side of the spot and pushing in… Read More

  • The World We Carry

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    Today I am wearing my mothers opinions. A top that hides my arms but is tight around my waist.  We were on holiday, getting changed to go to the beach. I felt her eyes on my bikini-clad body before she said, ‘You are… Read More

  • Baptism of Vanity

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    I love to shower. I love to shower so I can wash the stain of your unwanted hands from my breasts. Under my shower’s firm shaft, I can gauge the liquid’s temperature as it caresses the nape of the neck to the small… Read More

  • Enough Space

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    I sometimes use my grandpa’s suitcase as a stepstool to reach the attic window. On sunny days, the light is contained in one rectangular spot in the center of the room, the sunbeams clogged by dust particles. My cat likes to lie on… Read More

  • A Magpie’s Collection

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    My mother used to drive a yellow Volkswagen Beetle. Bodacious, it bounced over the dual carriageway, as she sped to Sainsbury’s. “There’s nothing new under the sun” she’d say. As a matter of fact, my mother reserved these phrases for moments she deemed… Read More

  • We breathe with…

    We breathe with…

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    During our life, there are a lot of small and big moments every single day, every single second. I always have hoped that I could carry all of them with me. Sometimes, there are moments I want to remember forever, so I cry.… Read More