Category: Society

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

Loitered Lens: Neon Moon Cabaret Club (Burlesque)

10/07/2017

The glitter, the glitz, and the Queen of Hearts. Neon Moon interpret their particular private wonderland. Photos...

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Can Transpersons Really Destroy Society?

05/07/2017

Who really needs protecting here?...

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Windmill, fantasy, back to nature

The Better Part of Valour. On Leaving the USA (or Anywhere)

29/06/2017

Sometimes the best thing to do is up sticks and go...

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Emotion and Reason: Spheron Architects

28/06/2017

Great architecture 'takes you to an inner beautiful and peaceful place in the absence of words'...

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Hurry Up and Wait: The Fine Art of the Celebrity Interview

27/06/2017

Egos, gaffes, junkets and giggles: dealing with Hollywood's finest is a tricky business...

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photo by James Morris

Hugh Broughton Architects (Interview)

22/06/2017

Great buildings embrace their environment, even in the Antarctic permafrost...

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Great British Tattoo Show

Loitered Lens: Great British Tattoo Show

16/06/2017

Beauty's only skin deep, but some tattoos... live forever?...

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Mincer by Dan Booth

We Don’t Need New Politics, We Need New Gods

15/06/2017

What deities should be placed before the God of Money?...

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Jeremy Corbyn allotment

Grass Roots and Green Shoots: At Jeremy Corbyn’s Allotment

13/06/2017

What's mostly green but red all over? ...

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Woman of Substances (Jenny Valentish)

12/06/2017

Addiction isn’t gender neutral, and neither is mental health....

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The Great British Tattoo Show 2017

08/06/2017

Challenging conformity and promoting diversity - Ally Pally gets inked...

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An Attempt at a Productive Conversation with a Conservative: A Fantasy Saga

07/06/2017

How do you chat politics with a Tory (without frothing at the mouth)? Invent one....

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Slavoj Zizek and Will Self In Conversation

Slavoj Zizek and Will Self In Conversation

06/06/2017

Two of the West's most dangerous thinkers go head to pointy head...

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Trump’s Antics Abroad Would be Scary – If He Held the Strings

01/06/2017

Novelty Handshakes, Ketchup on Steak - Trump on Tour is Not Where the Power Lies...

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lolitics

Reactive, Risky, Red: Lolitics Brings Back Lefty Laughs

31/05/2017

Left turn raw topical comedy road tested for comfort...

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Where is the Duende? Frack Language, Frack Self

22/05/2017

When we frack language, we tear apart the core of self...

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Speak. Or Forever Hold Your Peace?

05/05/2017

Constant communication communicates nothing. Would it help to stop and think?...

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They Might Be Dragons! Inventing Trauma for Population Control

28/04/2017

State manufactured fear is a phantom which can never be fought. But it can be ignored....

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political debate, elections 2017

Shake, not Spin: How To Interpret Political Debates

25/04/2017

Post-Trump, Post-Brexit, we now know that there's a trick to interpreting political debate. ...

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Mastering Fear: A User Guide

20/04/2017

What if fear could be used not as a wall, but as a gate? ...

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Sci-Fi London,

Sci-Fi London: Film, Music, Literature and Canine Cosplay #SFL17

18/04/2017

Ten days of sci-fi film, live music, immersive experiences and more...

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Deep State, Media Vampirism and the MOAB Bomb

18/04/2017

With the MOAB, High Dollar Despotism And Perpetual War show off their latest toy...

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War Profiteering and the Business of Slaughter. Ker-Ching!

11/04/2017

Let’s call the oligarchy of the elite what they are. Murderers. Cold blooded, remorseless murderers. ...

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Thanatopolis II

Thanatopolis II: Ghostly Frescoes, Industrial Art (at Waterloo)

10/04/2017

Thanatopolis II: An Evening with Autopsia...

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Michael

Voudoun and the Book of The Law

07/04/2017

Sloppy thinking and lack of spiritual purpose has allowed agents of discord to invade our shared idea space...

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Madam Hillary, Time to Go Home

05/04/2017

In US politics, dignity is a rare commodity. Which doesn't stop Madam Hillary burning what's left of hers....

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Whalley Range All Stars

Unexpected, Imaginative Experiences… with Whalley Range All Stars

03/04/2017

Security stopped us because we Went Too Far.... Whalley Range All Stars prove the power of theatre...

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Loitered Lens: Beyond the Beat at the Royal Albert Hall

26/03/2017

Previews of Julio Etchart's photography from the Beyond the Beat exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall...

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Womadelaide Walkabout: Friday Flashbacks

25/03/2017

Starting hot, WOMADelaide got hotter still with the activist politics of Ana Tijoux and the Slavic blues of Warsaw Village Band...

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visceral viewing

Play the Body: Screenwriting for Visceral Viewing

24/03/2017

Good screenwriting prompts reactions in the body as well as the mind. How so?...

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