Lately, I’ve noticed a pattern in the novels I gravitate toward: the women at the centre of them are exhausted. Not poetically exhausted but clinically, emotionally and sometimes strategically depleted. They’re overworked, undernourished, overstimulated or simply done with pretending life is manageable. But strangely, I find them compelling. Ottessa Moshegh’s narrator in My year of… Continue reading Why we’re obsessed with Exhausted Women in fiction
Skyrocketing AI stock prices have been a point of great anxiety over the past few months. Allegations of a bubble extend even longer, and with Michael Burry’s latest short position, the market took a hit. Afterwards, a whole rabble of AI industry leaders have made their way onto the media to reassure the world there… Continue reading Rabble of AI Leaders Try To Calm Markets In New Interviews
With a Charli XCX DJ remix as its soundtrack, the trailer for the new Wuthering Heights adaptation is capturing a wider Gen Z audience and renewing interest in Emily Brontë’s legendary classic. Emerald Fennell—best known for directing Saltburn—appears to have carefully assembled the key ingredients for another buzzy release. Margot Robbie Jacob Elordi star, and… Continue reading Barbie glam, Aussie accents and Marie Antoinette opulence: why Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights feels off
Between the years of 1642 and 1651, the UK was in total turmoil as the Royalist and Parliamentarist forces competed to lead the way for the union’s future. One man, utterly disturbed by the skirmishes resulting in an uncertain future and a death toll of around 200.000, strived to find out how this outcome could… Continue reading HOBBES AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THE META-LEVIATHAN
Do you ever find yourself scrolling endlessly through TikTok, or Instagram reels, and get swept up in the current of the media machine. You flick to the comments to contribute to the discourse and instead find your own thoughts staring right back at you – the same reaction, the same emojis and jokes. You may… Continue reading The Algorithm Ate My Taste: On Losing and Reclaiming Our Aesthetic Autonomy
Artificial intelligence is all the rage at the moment (plus there’s plenty of rage against it too). AI has blown up in popularity in the past couple of years thanks to large language models or LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude along with generative-AI tools such as Sora and Runway. Many naysayers assert AI is used… Continue reading Will AI Transform Human Thought?
It’s a hard thing, realising people aren’t who you want them to be. Such a poignant, sincere line was first heard in the trailer for Scott Cooper’s new Bruce Springsteen biopic, which sees The Bear star Jeremy Allen White tasked with embodying ‘The Boss’. Yet, it wasn’t until I was sat captivated in the cinema that I heard the line afresh, stricken by how one compelling piece of… Continue reading The Man Beneath the Surface: Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Review
Picture this – a street in Northeast London, a row of houses, two storeys, lines of windows punctuated by front doors, garden walls, wheelie bins. Look up to the roofs, tiles, chimney pots. Now, imagine a bed on one of those roofs, white wrought iron frame, red crochet blanket. It was here – on the roof – that… Continue reading Power to the people: an interview with artist and filmmaker Daniel Edelstyn
“Artificial intelligence (AI) will be unleashed across the UK to deliver a decade of national renewal” , has announced the UK government. Data centres, the energy-hungry, water-guzzling facilities powering AI, have sprung up at an unprecedented pace across the country. The UK now ranks third globally for data centres, behind only the US and Germany.… Continue reading Britain’s Data Centre Frenzy amid the Climate Emergency
A house in Northern Massachusetts, with its vast and domineering landscape, is the Prime Mover of Daniel Mason’s ecological fiction North Woods. This yellow home, constructed prior to the American War of Independence, from which the natural world unfolds and transforms the lives of its inhabitants. A puritan couple, a passionate apple farmer and his… Continue reading The Second Coming, again and again and again: A Review of North Woods by Daniel Mason
