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How to decouple art from its social and political context: a review of ‘THE 90s: ART AND FASHION’ at Tate Britain
Photo © Tate (Lucy Green) By Nick Moss It would be naive to expect an exhibition subtitled Art and Fashion, curated by ex-Vogue and i-D editor Edward…
Please Keep Freedom Away from Me
Commons image by Muhammad Yahya By Wanchen Cao Please keep freedom away from me, my friend,I would leave and never return.Like a bird from its cage,I would…
The Redskins and communist counterculture: review of Marxism in Music
The book is available here – until the 31 January 2027, there is a 35% discount code available – MARXISM35 – on the hardback book, so £52…
‘THE ROCKS WILL NOT HIDE YOU’: On the 3 year anniversary of Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza
The aftermath of genocide By Violet White, with pdf available here ———— How was this done? By intention. And by the absence of intention. By a shared…
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How does America’s virulent, violent capitalist empire mould its people? Review of the Netflix adaptation of Steinbeck’s ‘East of Eden’
Mike Faist as Charles Trask, Christopher Abbott as Adam Trask and Florence Pugh as Cathy Ames. Photograph: Netflix By Dennis Broe East of Eden, the Netflix series…
Hyperreality: When Neoliberal Fantasy Replaces Reality
Hyperreality by Keiichi Matsuda By Stuart Cartland Jean Baudrillard explored the concept of hyperreality in the 1980s, describing a condition in which reality and its representations become…
Gone for a Burton
By Keith Flett Carlsberg Britvic the global lager and soft drinks company has announced a plan to exit from brewing in the historic location of Burton. 310…
William Morris: Art, Revolution, and the Dream of a Different Society
By Jenny Farrell It is 1890. While Britain is aggressively expanding its global empire, its domestic industries are increasingly dominated by mechanised production and growing concentration of…
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Hyperreality by Keiichi Matsuda By Stuart Cartland Jean Baudrillard explored the concept of hyperreality in the 1980s, describing a condition in which reality and its... Continue reading
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