Tag: media
All must have prizes by Melanie Phillips
In the last week I have read Phillips’ book on the state of education and its decline over the last few decades – beginning in the 1960s and ending in the 1990s (the book was first written in 1996. The fact that the book ends in the 90’s is no testament to the rise in […]
12/10/2021
David Mitchell and Stephen Fry, just to pick a few names out of a large number, are intelligent people who appear on British television regularly. It is not unfair to suggest that they themselves probably do not watch much television which will account for their higher-than-average intellect. (Their intellect my actually be why they do […]
University
When I was doing my undergraduate degree I had lecturers apologies for the topic on which they were about to speak. This happened for a number of reasons. Perhaps the topic was a sensitive one or was a little crude. These are somewhat understandable. Or at least more understandable than this next one: the fact […]
So This is What August Looks Like
Today I have put together what I am going to do throughout the month of August. A plan of how I am going to overcome a lack of self-control. While I have been quite routine about what I have been doing over the last two years I think my self-control could definitely be improved. There […]
La Vita Nuova – Love and Scapegoating
Last week I explored the idea of the victim and the victimiser in relation to the short film La Vita Nuova by Christine and the Queens. I mentioned at the end of that post that there may be a link between love and scapegoating. This for me is linked to victimisation and victimisers, scapegoating is […]
La Vita Nuova – The Victim and Victimiser
Last week I explored Christine and the Queens short film La Vita Nuova that was released in conjunction with an EP of the same name. I did so in relation to high fashion and the ability of high fashion to evoke fantasy, an ability which Mark Fisher argued had been lost by high art which […]
Instagram: A life of its own
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 […]
Posthumous Bio Pics
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 […]
Why I cut my hair after watching Casey Neistat
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 […]
Come Back To Earth 