“The Real World…”
I started watching old episodes of the “The Real World” recently. If you grew up in the nineties or early aughts then you remember the cultural power of MTV and this one show in particular. Continue reading “The Real World…”
I started watching old episodes of the “The Real World” recently. If you grew up in the nineties or early aughts then you remember the cultural power of MTV and this one show in particular. Continue reading “The Real World…”
The death of Queen Elizabeth has made me think about her legacy. The idea of a monarchy in 2022 has always struck me as curious. Continue reading God Save Us From Queens (and Kings)
As she looked across the sea of people, all marching and chanting in unison, she felt a shudder of disquiet forming a knot in her stomach. Continue reading Crowds
“Pick me up.” He looked at the locked front door, then the room itself, wondering if he was hearing things. “Look at me.” He put down the book he was reading and tip-toed around the room, trying to locate the sound. When he got to the opposite end of the room he looked back at … Continue reading Algo
TikTok feels like a harbinger of the death of cinema. Continue reading TikTok TikTok TikTok
We have a perverse devotion to our outward facing selves; the look we don to signal to the world that the person we aim to be is actually who we are. That our appearance matches our striving and ideal self. Continue reading Volume XI – March 2021