Category: Society

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Winter? Embrace Your Depression, It’s The Soul’s Defiance

Depression, seasonally affected or otherwise, may be the soul shunning the collective madness...

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Mass Shootings Sell More Guns, So Don’t Expect To See Them Stop

Scared of guns? So get a gun! The unstoppable 'logic' of the firearm owner...

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And Phil Keeps on Falling: Blade Runner 2049

Very yellow and not very mellow. Is Blade Runner really due a reboot?...

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Loitered Lens: Trebuchet Print Issue 2 Launch (Structure and Architecture)

Looking for Lola at the club down in old Soho.... Scenes from the launch of Trebuchet's second print edition...

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Capitalism. Either it Goes, or We Do

The city's pantheon of possibility has been scoured away. Whither now?...

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Load, Wind, Release! Trebuchet Issue Two Launch

Azimuth calculated, trajectory defined. Trebuchet's second print issue - launched...

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Hurricanes are Real, Even if You Deny Climate Change

Post-Irma, the desperate pseudoscience of deniers is a cacophony of crazy ...

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The real cost of music?

Suffering for your art is common practice, but is it worth dying for?...

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Opportunity Can’t Be Looted

Nobody loves a looter, but industrial-scale corruption is just fine...

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Culling Yet More ‘Savages’: North Korea in Context

If you wish to inflict genocide on a people, it's OK as long as you term them 'savages'...

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Rocking the World: Présence Autochtone 2017 (Part Two)

Celebrating the deep rumble of First Nation culture in Montreal...

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Graveyard of Empires: Afghanistan Prepares its Killing Grounds… Again

There is no draining the swamp of the collective mind, for the swamp and citizenry are one. ...

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What Does Dignity Taste Of? Présence Autochtone 2017

As cultural expressions, food sit proudly alongside painting at Presence Autochtone...

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Flags, Statues, Genocide and the Trash Can of History

If tearing down statues could redress the wrongs of history, why stop at Confederates?...

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Shake Those Chains – It’s Your Inalienable Right

In a society dominated by money and its protection, your only rights are to shout impotently...

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Requiem4Grenfell – Images and Verse

Scenes of community, hope, defiance and care from the wreckage of Grenfell...

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Fire and Fury: Perpetual War = Perpetual High Dollar

The marriage of the high dollar to perpetual war becomes more blatant by the day...

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The Art Life (of David Lynch) – A Movie Review

The Art Life tells us no more of David Lynch's life than he wants us to know....

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Tune in, Turn On, Don’t die with your novel still in you.

One man's wisdom is another man's trite platitude, but who wants to spend their life guarding dust?...

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Loitered Lens: Great British Tattoo Show (Part Two)

Needles, inkguns, rubber and balm - colourful scenes from Alexander Palace...

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Is Trump Getting Too Big For His (Concrete) Boots?

Elites have no issue with dead Muslims, but they will draw the line at presidential ineptitude...

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A dynasty of design: SHH Architects

Generations of architectural elegance applied globally...

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Get Over It! Achieving Freedom by Mastering Emotion

Between stimilus and response lies the opportunity for conscious choice...

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Write Better Words: The Nuts and Bolts

The good stuff is there in your mind - getting it onto paper just takes discipline...

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Escaping the Pursuit of Happiness

It is no shame to seek sanctuary from the vanity-lousy imps of the collective mind...

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Write Better Words: A Step by Step Guide

Turn up at the page (and avoid cliches like that one). How to be a better writer....

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Loitered Lens: Great British Tattoo Show

It's not just ink at the Great British Tattoo Show (there's rubber, lace and unguents too)...

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Show Me Your Leprechaun, Mr Reductionist

We know the gods by the living agency of their songs and their unique psychical signatures....

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Building the Spirit: Steyn Studios (Architecture)

Designing the spirit, Steyn Studio set an eye on the eternal ...

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A tattered coat upon a stick, unless…. How to Age Well

Existence is simply meaningless dance of fleetingly animated dust, unless we activate our soul...

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