Grounded

Olivia Twist
October 28, 2020
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“Can we do some real music now?” – practice and the pursuit of perfection
I want to Belieb
The palaver about Channel 4’s benefits street and the significance of a universal basic income
Of murder and memory: an unfinished story from post-war Ukraine
The dazzling, dangerous charm of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
A tribute to Moishe Postone, 1942 – 2018
Jorge Pérez Jaramillo and the dystopian, utopian parable of Medellín
Ariana Grande is the world’s most confusing pop star
Dear Fiona,
La Revo
Parental elegy: language in extremis
Bored senseless: Logan Paul and meme politics
“Why do they riot?”
Pickled Moonbeams: the horticultural dislocations of a settler colony
Flight(lessness) and the fragility of extinction/evolution
The perils of financial warfare
How the north can learn from the south in building a welfare state
Black legends of the fallen
A Ukrainian thesaurus in Russian
Why do we treat ourselves less well than our pets?
“2014”: the return of Big Brother
On the moral void in contemporary China
The doxa of Gillian Tett
The city as canvas: Detroit, MI and the problem of American exceptionalism
Accumulation and all that
Butterflies, mimesis and ‘the double’
‘Crisis ordinariness’: Grangetown, Middlesbrough
Fueling crisis or driving change? Disentangling our relations with destructive industries
The advent of cryptocurrencies: a reason to rethink currency in the 21st century
Corporate boards, quotas for women and political theory
Did somebody say … George Orwell?
Money on either side of the poverty line
Thinking through activism, sexuality, and scholarship
Deirdre Bair, Simone de Beauvoir, and the undivided woman
How to look at war: Michael Gove and The Fitzwilliam Museum’s La Grande Guerre
Tuning into each other: intimate collaboration in music-making
Tracking Keynes through King’s: economics, genes and the possibilities for our grandchildren
Abbott, Indigenous Australians and the politics of invisibility
Madcap
Pro-sex, and anti-prison, but what about kink?
Careful: do touch
‘I lived once in a grave’: Palestinian writers respond to the attack on Gaza
Australia’s refugee crisis and the normality of exception
Radical feminism, transgender issues, and phenomenology
At the festival of love
Why can’t we love like an albatross?
In pornworld
Between rhetoric and practice: domestic violence against women in the uk
On civility and academia
Speaking of African politics, without the politics
O mother, mother what have you done?
To take without echo: a brief history of disappearance
On wellbeing
A Dark Knight is better than no Knight at all
Neoliberalism, 1979-2008
Framing the debate. Architecture and photography
Strange behaviour
‘Ecuador bans Bitcoin’! A monetary mix-up
Candyfloss for refugees
Fishing for fairness
Sor Juana: an icon of freedom
The peacock has landed
Hipster post-factualism and the rise of the extremely real
In defense of incomplete endings
International Women’s Day: female consciousness
François Fillon and the politics of regret
The politics of happiness
Fieldwork in Lyonesse: salvage ethnography before the anthropocene floods
Going in circles: Amanda Coker, world record cyclist
Everness – the art of being dead
Long-termism
Google me, Google me not
Why are billionaire universities hedging their bets on climate change?
Pathologising the norm: the spread of mental illness
Patronage and crisis: german theatre and cultural politics
From Arab Spring to Arab Summer?
Let’s beat up the poor
How to annihilate a royal
Billions of pounds to map billions of neurons
Chaplin, Grillo and the spectre of centrist populism
My language ate my savings
Closed trials and open wounds
Why economists are liars (and other stories)
The rights of journalism and the needs of audiences
Changing the wheel: Bertolt Brecht’s stories from the revolution
Closed material procedures, Rudi Dutschke and King’s
Menstruation taboos: let’s break the silence
Justifying government overreach: Brennan’s confirmation, partisan politics and america’s secretive security state
Ward seven
Of fat cats and a barking public
I want to be alternative – local and virtual currencies attacking $, € and ¥
America’s strange love affair with guns
Death by tonsillitis: imagining a world without antibiotics
A reign of error
House mother normal? On caring and blaming
Smooth is fast
Destroying the universities
The callous caretaker
Who is the real Alastair Campbell?
‘Catch it and talk to me’ – flirting Tehran style
Empathy after The Act of Killing
This way madness lies: Mike Jay on madness
Nationalism, Brexit and drones – a conversation with Neal Ascherson
Farewell, Neoliberalism: an interview with Wolfgang Streeck
‘I don’t want to be a perfectly automated cyborg bitch’: an Interview with Lyra Pramuk
‘There have always been dissidents, in all times and places’: an interview with Dr. Priya Gopal
An interview with Alan Rusbridger
Crises and experimental capitalism: an interview with Nancy Fraser
Who will educate the educators? An interview with Gayatri Spivak
An interview with Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal
The elasticity of the artwork: an interview with Fabrice Le Nézet
It’s not a rigorous education – an interview with Fiona Millar
Living against everything: an interview with Mark Greif
Academia and intellectual soulcraft: a conversation with Cornel West
An interview with David Runciman
Power and publication: an interview with Onora O’Neill
Gilded Birds interview: Jane Haynes
Gilded Birds interview: Christopher Prendergast
An interview with Michael Herzfeld: cryptocolonialism, the responsibility of the social sciences and Europe
Playing with children, adults and Michael Gove: an interview with Patrick Bateson
Gilded birds interview: Thomas Adès
How academia and publishing are destroying scientific innovation: a conversation with Sydney Brenner
Jacqueline Rose on women in dark times
‘Do you really get to sit there?’ An interview with Steven J. Fowler
‘Economy, happiness, and the good life:’ an interview with Edward F. Fischer
Perpetual screaming: an interview with Simon Jenkins
Aesthetics and politics of distraction: a conversation with Geeta Patel
Age of extraction: an interview with Saskia Sassen
Doing the work: a conversation with Patti Smith
The Palestinian enclaves struggle: an interview with Ilan Pappé
How to levitate
Intimacy, Immensity: The Materialist Imagination
Grounded
The sex life of objects: a romantic triste in the Sir John Soane Museum
Feminist visions in “The Handmaiden” and “The Beguiled”
‘Crossing’: a new film portrays the harsh journey for a safe abortion
Second-hand: “Report to Greco”, Nikos Kazantzakis
Gradually moving back in time with him. A review of An Attic Full Of Trains
Palimpsestic townscapes: Gilbert & George’s scapegoating pictures
You’ll find Virginia in the city. A review of Virginia Woolf: art, life and vision at the national portrait gallery
Cinema of intimacy: Steve McQueen at Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo
Jeremy Deller confronts the William Morris myth: problems of biography and image
What form does laughter take? Disturbing reactions to Kara Walker’s newest piece
Intimacy, love, and the body – rethinking Helmut Newton’s photography
“A Pale Imitation: the new Turing biopic is a far cry from the fascinating truth”
Re-reading Trump’s campaign book “Crippled America”
Hito Steyerl’s “Liquidity Inc.” and art under neoliberalism
Second-hand: “Song of Solomon”, Toni Morrison
The politics of hidden images: display and The Gurlitt Collection
Who’s afraid of the young asian girl? on Jenny Zhang’s “Sour Heart”
Zadie Smith’s “Swing Time” and the death of liberalism
The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers: A Politics Of Representation
Twin speak: reflections upon the doubles in lynch’s ‘Twin Peaks’
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