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Future Never Spoke
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Under My Own Skin
There comes a point in lockdown when beyond feeling trapped in my bedroom, I begin to feel trapped within my own skin – almost like it’s no longer mine. The person I am, underneath quarantine-related afflictions, is unknown to me. So, as I ease into a world that the news flippantly calls normal, I am…
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Finding Hope in the Unrelenting Bleakness of the News Cycle
To exist in the midst of a pandemic, by default, is exhausting. The collective sense of loss, of grief and of fatigue is both intensely palpable and seemingly perpetual. It often feels as though the bad news is never ending. Like never before, the 24/7 news cycle is unbearably surreal and frequently acutely painful to…
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Competing Forces, Opposing Forces, Emerging Forces Which Could Disrupt The Conjuncture That We’re In
An interview with David Castle, editorial director at Pluto Press. Pluto Press emerged in 1969 with a commitment to radical political publishing on the left. Birthed at a time of immense change themselves, I was inspired to contact them to hear about what they have made out of the turbulent pandemic months, of a time…
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Out With the Old and In With the Old
Have you ever been listening to music and had someone say: “they just don’t make music like they used to”? And then that same person will see a trailer for a remake of a classic film and complain that “we don’t need any more remakes” and beg for something new? We live in a post-modern…
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Protecting Musicians During “COVID-Safe” Events
The COVID-19 pandemic has been responsible for many problems that creatives of all forms have experienced during this trying time. Procrastination and lack of motivation are some things I have personally struggled with throughout the pandemic and nationwide lockdowns when trying to engage with and finishing pieces of work within my creative practice, which I…
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Between Dream and Reality
Kaja imagines a city where cis women, trans people and non-binary people can move around freely and be safe. For her project “Flaneuserie – reoccupying cities and spaces”, the Berlin-based artist interviewed activists, designers and friends about their movement through the city in relation to clothes and designed a fashion collection with and for them.…
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Dressing for the Violent Side of Football and Why I No Longer Do
Although brands like Stone Island and Burberry are beloved by some in mainstream society today, they in fact once served as a type of uniform for a notoriously violent subculture; that of football hooligans. Dave Jeal, a former football hooligan turned ordained minister, reflects on ditching one uniform for another and the symbolic power of…
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Some Notes for an Unclear Manifesto
[a brief collection of notes for a philosophical-religious tract based on the notions of eternal return, representationalism, principles of cellular automata, and the relation between immanence and transcendence. the text is intended to emulate the experience of a wikipedia binge rather than a definitive manifesto, lacking much clear ideological direction or formal language] By definition,…
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Notes on Networking
Nobody is meant to enjoy networking. It’s just one of those things that you must do if you would like to find yourself in the sort of industry where you are awarded work based on your personal name recognition. Networking culture manufactures its own microcosm of celebrity important to only those inside the food chain…
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Insert a Better World Here
The future of fashion shows has been one of the most recurrent conversations of the past year. Living in a world where people cannot gather or socialize nor travel, designers and brands have had to readjust the ways in which messages are communicated and the garments of the future are presented to both, the audience…
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Allotments, Albion and The Angelus
In planting their own vegetables on St Georges Hill in Surrey in 1649, the Diggers were taking a stand against a system of enclosure which, although then relatively new, would go on to define land and labour rights in modern Europe for the next 400 years… As I have started work on my own vegetable…