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Jan 19

Historical Verisimilitude

The film Corsage does something very interesting with its costumes, settings and set dressing, which raises interesting points about what history is, how we interact with it, and how it interacts with fiction. It is set in 1877/78, and follows the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, as she struggles with the…

History

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Historical Verisimilitude
Historical Verisimilitude
History

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Dec 2, 2022

The Real and the Unreal

We increasingly experience reality through televisual and film media, and as such we have become less and less sure of what is real, and what is not. Dramatisations of reality blur the boundaries of fact and fiction, our experience of the real filtered through its reconstruction. In our consumption of…

Culture

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The Real and the Unreal
The Real and the Unreal
Culture

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Mar 18, 2022

South Norwood and the Conservative Club

The South Norwood Conservative Club building sits at the bottom of South Norwood Hill, by the junction with Selhurst Road, backing onto a branch of the Harris Academy chain, which now occupies part of the old Stanley Arts complex. A cheap, ugly, matte grey cladding wraps around the ground floor…

Politics

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South Norwood and the Conservative Club
South Norwood and the Conservative Club
Politics

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Oct 28, 2021

Great Coincidence and Revelations

Great Expectations; the quintessential Victorian bildungsroman. It tells the story of Pip, the unlucky product of the early-nineteenth century upheaval that followed the early industrial revolution in Britain, and the unwitting victim of the pen of the great social chronicler of the age, Charles Dickens. Left almost alone after the…

Literature

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Great Coincidence and Revelations
Great Coincidence and Revelations
Literature

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Aug 17, 2021

I Think You Should Leave and America’s dark heart

I Think You Should Leave is the comedy vehicle of Tim Robinson, a former SNL alumnus, formed of a series of short, sharp absurd sketches set in everyday America, which burst through accepted social norms, as the characters engage in increasingly outlandish behaviour. Although some begin in strange circumstances, and…

Media

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I Think You Should Leave and America’s dark heart
I Think You Should Leave and America’s dark heart
Media

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Jul 13, 2021

The anti-capitalism capitalism of Gregg Wallace

Gregg Wallace; The Talking Egg; The Eggman; Gr-Egg Wallace; Gregg Wallace looks like an egg, and Gregg Wallace is everywhere, taking over; this cannot be a coincidence. …

Television

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The anti-capitalism capitalism of Gregg Wallace
The anti-capitalism capitalism of Gregg Wallace
Television

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Feb 16, 2021

Against ‘Originism’

In a previous article I introduced the concept of ‘Originism’, and in this article I will define this term, explain the significance of it, and that how this concept frames historical analysis, and constructs historical knowledge, needs to be resisted. Originism contends that a concept, idea, or process is explained…

History

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Against ‘Originism’
Against ‘Originism’
History

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Jan 20, 2021

Archaeology as explanation: the origins of economic thought

Two books I have read recently have both been on a similar topic; the origins of current economic thinking. The first by Quinn Slobidian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, explores the origins of the thinking, and thinkers, behind neoliberalism. The second by Phillip Mirowski, More…

Politics

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Archaeology as explanation: the origins of economic thought
Archaeology as explanation: the origins of economic thought
Politics

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Aug 14, 2018

The Irrationality of Power

The liberal, Enlightenment idea of ‘rationality’ is a concept which has been used as the external validator of human actions. If something is rational then it is deemed correct by a measure which exists outside of us, and our petty biases and emotions. Specifically, it is used as a justification…

Politics

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The Irrationality of Power
The Irrationality of Power
Politics

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Feb 28, 2018

The haunting of a Phantom Thread

The film Phantom Thread, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and apparently Daniel Day-Lewis’ last film is a well-made, tightly shot film that grandly showcases the entire range of Daniel Day-Lewis’ facial expressions, and truly makes one appreciate the beauty of a frying mushroom. Beyond all the well placed spoons and…

Politics

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The haunting of a Phantom Thread
The haunting of a Phantom Thread
Politics

9 min read

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