“The nakedness of the image is always an interstice – something into which the visualization of desire is constantly projected in a type of pornographic monomania.”
Category: Theory
[Essay] The Mythology of Starbucks — Maddy Howard
“Just as Barthes says the texture of steak, its sanguine juiciness, seem to be magically health-giving, the foamy, insubstantial milkiness of a cappuccino or latte has its own special sublimity.”
[Essay] On #YOLO — Charles Bliss
“In the face of the void of oblivion after death, YOLO is an exhortation to action-experience, a mindfulness of our own mortality.”
[Essay] Nationalism and the National Poet: Shakespeare, Lacan, and the Aphanisis of England — Josh Mcloughlin
“The history plays demonstrate Lacanian aphanisis on a national scale, disclosing the fundamental instability of all nationalisms and exposing the aporia at the heart of Englishness.”
[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.”
[Essay] Shakespeare on Screen: Adaptation and the Politics of Fidelity — Josh Mcloughlin
“Loncraine’s Richard III resists a critical approach that measures the ‘textual fidelity’ of an adaptation against its literary or historical proximity to Shakespeare’s original.”
[Essay] Art and Ideology: Clark, Courbet, and Althusser — Josh Mcloughlin
“Courbet makes visible (donner à voir) the interpellation of rural subjectivity not only in the gaze of urban bourgeois ideology but in the equally culpable stare of genre painting itself.”
