The importance of Gravity
By Mike Heneghan Cinema is heading for a crossroads. We all know it, we can all feel it, even if we don’t notice it. So much has changed in such […]
By Mike Heneghan Cinema is heading for a crossroads. We all know it, we can all feel it, even if we don’t notice it. So much has changed in such […]
By Ciaran Kurran Raymond Williams defined culture as the whole way of life of a people, not only imaginative works, or Hegelian-inspired historical progress, but the practices and behaviour patterns […]
By Lucy Vleeshouwers According to the promotional video for the ‘Holland-Russiayear’, 2013, it all started with the Peter the Great. This tsar, who is known for modernising Russia under European […]
By Peadar King In the past century we have seen our technologies improve and adapt exponentially far beyond our expectations. Medical technologies have cured, or come tantalizingly close to curing, […]
By Mike Heneghan Our lives are built on stories. Built of stories. The stories that we tell ourselves, about ourselves, about other people, looking out through two lonely sacks of […]
By Stewart Killeen The recent release of the fifth edition of the DSM – the diagnostic and statistical manual of psychiatric disorders – was surrounded by much heated debate, some […]
By Mike Heneghan Sometimes I’m frustrated by my own opinion. “Why can’t I write what I like?” has only recently started to shift to “why don’t I just like what […]
By Kieran Curran Heterodoxy: “The set of beliefs and values that challenge the status quo and received wisdom – or common sense – within a particular field. For example, […]
By Lucy Vleeshouwers A few months ago the Dutch government introduced a controversial bill: it may become illegal for undocumented refugees and asylum seekers to stay in the Netherlands. Amnesty […]
By Susan Carolan “Like pornography you can’t define a hipster, you just know one when you see one” Hipsters are everywhere. This former subculture has invaded all aspects of your […]
BY LUCY VLEESHOUWERS CBS: economic situation still bleak; Unemployment rate will rise to 700.000 in 2014; Billions for the unemployed don’t help. These are some of […]
By Aoife King Sometimes we take our rights for granted. We do so by assuming that others will automatically know to protect our rights. It is not surprising that many of […]