In a recent video posted on Instagram Florence Pugh said a number of things that stuck me as odd. These are things that are necessarily specific to her rather they stood out as being symptomatic of something wider. It is symptomatic of the effect of Instagram and social media more generally on our relationship to […]
Yesterday I finished the last piece of work of my three year degree and I am now going to be posting far more regularly on here. At least once a week but hopefully more.
The rise of posthumous bio pics in the recent years is signs of our inability to think of the future. Our future is becoming the death of our past replayed over and over. Relived. We relive all of it, even the death. Maybe as a way to desensitise us to our own death. Watching lives […]
This afternoon I cut my hair. Over the last couple of days, between working on essays, I’ve been watching Casey Neistat’s daily vlogs. This led to me cutting my hair. I am going to self-indulgently analyse the reasons why. Casey Neistat, for some context, worked successfully in the TV, Film and advertising before starting a […]
Why is it that any sport that a woman takes part in is suddenly a feminist poster child? Yes, women can play football. Yes, women can row. Yes, women can…. We should celebrate the progress but why is every conversation ‘do you think this will inspire young girls?’ With in that conversation there is the […]
Competitive eating/ watching binge eating/ eating challenges is a phenomenon that I would argue is the perfect combination of hedonism and gluttony but also the capability to surpass the human norms. Does the impressively excessive nature outweigh the feelings that compel us to remain with in the realms of health and recommended amount of food […]
Outsider artists aren’t merely shown along side high art, they are high art. They simply have a label attached designating them as outsiders. They are still being defined as outsiders even now, even though outsider art has reached the point of at least being known by the late majority, if not by the ‘laggards’ as […]
There is room for the argument that dead artists impede more on there art than those who are alive. A lot of artists that are alive keep their process, sketchbooks and behind the scenes details private, whereas when people die these private collections and workspaces and houses are bought to the forefront as the last […]
Death is an odd phenomenon. It is so far removed from anything we can experience and ever really feel that it can only ever leave a void. There can be no understanding of it, and I think that any form of understanding would be detrimental. If we knew the feeling, we would never live because […]
In the final chapter of his book Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Zizek has suggested that there is now an anxiety that stems from a fear of not being seen. Is it the actions that are important or is it the fact that they are viewed that renders them important? This question to me has an […]
Come Back To Earth 