“Lookin’ backwards/ might be the only way to move forward”—Taylor Swift, “The Manuscript”. “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”—Lewis Carroll, “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There”. In his 2024 book, “Heartbreak Is The National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music”, journalist Rob Sheffield writes that for Taylor […]
Life at the end of 2024 is a strange mix of relying on AI to run your intellectual chores while wondering whether it’ll replace you entirely by dusk. In this age of tension—where romantic, complacent nostalgia often battles innovation and progress for cultural order, Peter Cat Recording Co. makes the case that the two can […]
From my early childhood Lenny Myers was my best friend as I grew up in Post-War Rushden, Northamptonshire where we had both been born. We went to South End Junior school in Rushden together. We adventured together. We caught measles and chicken pox together. We were inseparable except for the short, sulky periods following an […]
In the collaborative game of Hanabi, players work together to create vibrant fireworks in 5 different colours, caught between moments of joy and panic as the clock runs down. Together, they can earn back timer counters, buy more time and continue to build their spectacle of pyrotechnics. When the birth control pill was approved for […]
To retell is to reminisce, to reimagine, and even readapt to a world that evolves with the gust of change. The stories that are ever-lasting have an undying habit of wanting to be heard. While One Day is no Pride and Prejudice, there exists a Shakespearean element that cinema has outpoured in reincarnating Emma and […]
Amid the grand acclaim last year for the Barbie movie as a landmark in feminist cinema, it’s worth revisiting another feminist screenplay that celebrated its 10th anniversary: Frances Ha. While Barbie explicitly addresses feminist themes within an androcentric industry and effectively communicates them to younger audiences, Frances Ha surpasses it with a more nuanced exploration […]
Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” stands in stark contrast to the contemporary world, obsessed with frivolous ambition and the relentless pursuit of “being better.” Self-help books and exercise routines gather dust, healthy recipes get saved, and free AI courses to get that big break in your job, are abandoned midway. You eventually commit to one or […]
A few months ago, a new quote began to make the rounds on basketball Twitter. It picked up from Latin American Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara’s journals, in which one December night in 1962, a year and a half on from the Bay of Pigs invasion, he would log his powerful disdain against a different foreign […]
Image: Farren van Wyk’s collection of eight photographs titled, “Thirppy.” The subtitled words face the pavement in front of Utrecht University of Arts’ (HKU) space for new art and media located at Minrebroederstraat 16. They serve as a primer to the narratives and conversations in focus at the space’s latest exhibition, CAPE X UTRECHT: Hidden […]
‘To hold each other’s hands is to have balance. Yet it also means having their weight with you, should there be a sudden fall.” – D. E. Chaudron, Your Body, An Altar. I keep wondering now if I could have felt differently about the whole thing as a child. Or rather, to understand why I found […]