(2012–2018)

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Jan 12, 2017

Elena Ferrante, Zadie Smith, and the Politics of Feminine (In)Visibility

Look at me / (don’t look at me) / Look at me / (don’t look at me) / Look at me don’t look at me look at me look at me don’t look at me don’t / look / (Look) / (Don’t look) / I can’t stand it if you don’t…

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Dec 11, 2016

Irony (mostly)

Once I went to a nightclub with some friends. I bought a ticket in advance because I still carry this vague conviction that when I ‘go out’ I won’t be let in, and that someone, at some point, will try to hit me. Having a ticket makes me feel safer: there can only be so much chaos if you have to print…

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Nov 1, 2016

Listen to the first episode of The Inkling Podcast

The first episode of The Inkling Podcast is live! As well as Spreaker, you can find us on iTunes, Stitcher and Soundcloud.

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Aug 14, 2016

Framing Son of Saul

All art since the Shoah has been ethically contested, and art taking the Holocaust as its object occupies uniquely unstable ground. Films daring to depict it have attracted condemnation at least since Jacques Rivette’s 1961 essay ‘On Abjection’ — a piece with which the filmmaker and sometime…

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Jul 19, 2016

Black Bodies Matter

The privileging of ‘hard news’ — national and global politics, business and financial markets — has mired journalism in the language of policy. Take America’s compulsive shooting of its unarmed black citizens, where reportage tends to follow roughly the same format: begin with a heartrending…

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May 1, 2016

Head Over Heels: the Playful Astronaut

At Lunchtime GMT, 15 January this year, I watched Tim Peake’s spacewalk. Like many live transmissions, the first venture into the ‘void profound’ by a British astronaut was a curious mixture of the exciting and the anticlimactic. The hatch opened; I sat up. The…

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Apr 10, 2016

‘Touch My Soul’: Shia LaBeouf and the Art of Connecting

“Real artists rarely wear bags on their heads.”

So wrote Jonathan Jones, the Guardian’s art critic, of Shia LaBeouf’s first performance artwork #IAMSORRY, a collaboration with artists Nastja Rönkkö and Luke…