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 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 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 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 […]
‘Won’t soul music change, now that our souls have turned strange?’ By Kieran Curran I first heard the Silver Jews back in 2004. I was a young undergrad student in […]
By Marco Bosco The hand frenetically beats the tamburo – faster and stronger with every beat. An intense, young female voice with an almost Arabic tone, quickly becomes more […]
By Lucy Vleeshouwers Taiye Selasi had her first novel published this month: Ghana must go. But it wasn’t just published. Selasi toured around Europe to talk about it, and it […]
By Hans Vennevertloo With his cat-like grin and lean figure, James Coburn was an immediately recognisable presence in Hollywood films of the sixties and seventies, and the personification of […]
By Marco Bosco When you think of Italy you might think about the Colosseum in Rome, Florentine architecture, or the high-fashion of Milan, but Italy is more than that. Don’t […]