“In the face of the void of oblivion after death, YOLO is an exhortation to action-experience, a mindfulness of our own mortality.”
Category: Theory
[Essay] Why Marxism and Critical Theory Still Matter — Dan Formby
“It in oppositional reading practices—feminist, post-structuralist, post-colonialist, cultural materialist, affect theory, cybernetics, ecocriticism—that the legacy and future of critical theory lie.”
[Essay] Sound and the City: Sonic Technologies and Urban Subjectivity – Jamie Bulman
“These personal moments give new meanings to the music we listen to, re-contextualising them within our personalised canon of musical experience.”
[Essay] Dérive: Situationist Architecture and the Modern City — Matilda Roberts
“For Raoul Vaneigem, creativity, love and play are life’s nutrients – the only real ways in which we can participate in the world.”
[Essay] F.M. Mayor and Literary Modernism — Robert Firth
“The subtly crafted modernisms of isolation, doubt and disillusionment are rendered through both character and narrative form by situating both at a subjective and historical fault line marking the border between discontinuity and classic realist denouement.”