The future of clubbing in the UK is under serious threat, as new data reveals an alarming rate of nightclub closures. According to recent figures from the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA), 2024 has already seen an average of five nightclubs closing each week—67 venues in just the first four months. This marks a dramatic… Continue reading UK nightclubs facing extinction: the fight to save cubbing culture
It’s February in Rio de Janeiro, and the sweltering summer is showing no signs of surrender. “Bafado, né?” affirms Mateus, who will show me around. A lush green canopy stretches overhead, its leaves casting a dappled glow over the cobbled driveway as they soak up the morning rays. I am at Sítio Roberto Burle Marx,… Continue reading Roberto Burle Marx and the Art of the Tropical Garden
Very few TV shows can maintain a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score while delivering the most absurd lines and unjustifiably dramatic plot imaginable. But then again, very few shows are written by Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin. Gloriously ridiculous and so far overblown is The Chair Company, the new limited series written by the duo and fronted by… Continue reading The Chair Company: Tim Robinson’s profound ability to out-mortify the human experience
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s magnum opus, Frankenstein, has greatly influenced the arts over the past centuries. Spanning novels, characters inspired by the creature, and film adaptations that provide space for their own interpretation with artistic uniqueness and pioneering elements from the classic story. Among them is Guillermo del Toro’s version, released this year, which amassed 29.1M… Continue reading Parental Trauma Themes and Biblical Allusions in Frankenstein
In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux, in a somewhat self-indulgent practice, recounts her girlhood: all its desire, shame and vulnerability that encircles the years of female adolescence. Ernaux’s creative ability to place herself into the body of her 18-year-old self means reliving sexual and emotional trauma. She divulges into the summer of 1958 when she worked as… Continue reading Journey to the self: detangling adolescent desire and conditioned female shame in A Girl’s Story
“At a time when man was still at the initial stages of his civilisation and his thought had not yet consciously come to serve objective truth, the resort to myth was the only way to supply an answer to the questions which exercised him…” [1] [1] Stavropoulou, M. (1997) Greek Mythology: Gods and heroes –… Continue reading A Prophet of Discourse: What would Hermes make of digital communication?
It’s never been easier to watch movies. Fire up your streaming service of choice, navigate through pages of straight-to-Netflix slop, and enjoy the show. Yet, prior to the mid-2010s, streaming content was a novelty; further back than that, the concept of unlimited access to media at home was a sci-fi dream. Indeed, commercial VHS players didn’t reach the United… Continue reading In Search of Lost Film: Proust’s Nostalgia and the All-Access Economy
With the increasing improvement of various Large Language Models (LLMs), the most known software being ChatGPT, we are now witnessing a virtual assistant that can help write emails, draft business plans, and even offer life advice within its boundaries. The boundaries are what seem to be forgotten. It’s safe to say that with the growing… Continue reading AI Psychosis – The danger of artificial optimism
“Do I really need to read classics?” – for many years, even despite having majored in literature, my answer would’ve been a simple: “no”. My initial experience with classics was similar to that of many others; they were forced down my throat in high school and made me occasionally question whether I liked reading at all. Countless… Continue reading Do you really need to read the classics?
Part memoir, part obituary-of-sorts dedicated to Arundhati Roy’s late mother, Mary Roy, this somewhat holy yet unorthodox text, Mother Mary Comes To Me, redefines motherhood, all the while reforming the memoir genre. Bound by a ruby red cover and veiled with a half sleeve fashioning Roy’s portraits in young adulthood and now, this text underlines… Continue reading Mother Mary Comes To Me – The Memoir Redefining Motherhood
