“Like Joyce in Ulysses, Godard’s orientation towards Shakespeare is one of devotional iconoclasm – a combination of Oedipal patricide and re-embodiment.”
[Essay] Putin’s Foundation Myth: Russian Memory and the Second World War — Joseph Barker
“Putin’s government has successfully influenced a range of cultural forms to manipulate the politics of memory from above.”
[Essay] Politics, Ideology and Comedy: John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera — Josh Mcloughlin
“Gay’s joke engages the ‘liberating’ and ‘rebellious’ potential of Freud’s theory of humour to present a radically egalitarian politics.”
[Essay] Race, Ethnicity and Queer Theology — Tom Hillsdon
“The theology of queer black scholars has moved the voices and experiences of queer black people from the margins to the centre.”
[Essay] A Brief History of Chinese Nationalism 1901-1949 — Joseph Barker
“The limited nationalism of the KMT fundamentally served the interests of China’s intellectuals and the bourgeoisie.”
[Essay] On Affinity — Charles Bliss
“Neither animate nor inanimate, we vitalise these abstract forms like Dr Frankenstein.”
[Fiction] ‘Homeless’ — Bart Van Goethem
“At home, Jerry always felt he was some sort of permanent guest.”
[Essay] Foucault, Sexuality and the ‘Confessing Animal’ — Josh Mcloughlin
“Perhaps most important is not the obligation or the frequency of confession, but what Foucault calls its ‘exhaustive’ quality.”
[Essay] Flat Affect as Deconstruction: Berlant, Derrida and Tilda Swinton — Josh Mcloughlin
“Swinton’s flat affect reiterates Butler’s always-already inscribed gendered body.”
[Essay] Subversive Cinema from Waters to Carax — Louis Armand
“Where cinema was, ego will be.”
[Fiction] ‘Flesh Songs’ — Catherine McNamara
“He describes the persimmon tree as an equilibrium of weight and colour, a tree Gauguin would have liked.”
[Essay] Being Lynchian — Eliza Slawther
“Lynch’s magic lies in seamlessly blending a prosaic matter—the realism of small-town life—with a poetic surrealist form.”
[Poetry] — Jenny Sloan
“Unburied heads poke above the paste as / Two childhoods sit in either corner of the cab.”
[Essay] Queer Time in Woolf and Wilde — Josh Mcloughlin
“Muñoz’s theory is based on a flawed understanding of Heideggerian philosophy, because a truly ‘unbounded’ ontology would reject the very ‘equipmental’ being Heidegger attacks – and the utopianism Muñoz mistakenly celebrates.”
[Short film] Death of An Actor — Harry Sherriff
“Joe and Ben are rehearsing a play but there’s one stumbling block. Ben can’t die.”
[Drama] A Man of Few Words — R.W. Haynes
“Now Mr. Walter, I know you have to use the words available to you, but that one wasn’t really timed to please.”
[Fiction] ‘Flight 103’ — Fraser Bryant
“We’re trapped. I rip off my seatbelt and stand, then sit, then stand once again.”
[Essay] Consuming Fragments: Performance Art and Spectatorship — Jasper Llewelyn
“Although championed as the quintessential practice of contemporary postmodern practice, recent trends for disrupting the spectator’s viewing process through fragmentation are based on a long history of performance and installation.”
