Brainrot and nonsensical media: why do so many people find it appealing?
Written by Jamie Calder.
Illustrated by Lai Ling Berthoud.
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The Glorification of “Bedrot”: Restful Rebellion or Capitalism’s Comfy Trap?
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Illustrated by Beth Xia.
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Abandoned Cityscapes - In what ways is capitalism contributing to urban decay?
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Cooking Amid Crisis: The Duality of the Tragic and the Mundane
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Navigating Duality in Yoko Tawada's 'The Bath'
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Beyond the Binary: Pursuing a Radical Photography
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Islington Assembly Hall, London, October 14, 2023:
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Dec 5, 20234 min read
Why people sin, according to Emerald Fennell: A Review of Saltburn
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A review of Saltburn, A perverted (and modernised) Brideshead Revisited
Writing by Fleur O'Reilly, artwork by James Wake. Anyone who’s seen Emerald Fennel’s new film, Saltburn, will agree that it left a strong...
Rattlecap Writers
Oct 30, 20234 min read
Existing outside of the white sphere: dating, tokenism, and liberation in a racialised body
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Rattlecap Writers
Oct 30, 20236 min read
Her Body & The Mountain Corpul Ei și Muntele
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Oct 30, 20234 min read
Exciting suffering: the sexualization of pain
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Oct 30, 20234 min read
Heteronormativity, Queerness, and How They Relate To Living In A Body
Writing by Caitlin Sheek. Artwork by Kate Granholm. Growing up in a heteronormative society as a queer person is a unique and challenging...
Rattlecap Writers
Feb 25, 20233 min read
Guadagnino on Crying, Cumming and Cannibalism
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Feb 25, 20234 min read
Money can’t buy happiness - don’t let capitalism fool you
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The Disempowerment Fantasy: a short study on the catharsis that apocalypse media provides
Writing by Susannah Lee. Artwork by Heather Baillie I can’t wait to see which of my favourite characters got their skull caved in!’. As...
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Dec 19, 20224 min read
‘Revolt of the Mother’ and the Subversiveness of Female Comedy
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Dec 19, 20225 min read
Fighting humanity’s death sentence: civil resistance, art, and the climate catastrophe
Writing by Zoe Nayani. Artwork by Kate Granholm (@katesartthings on Instagram) A year ago, the phrase ‘Van Gogh tomato soup’ seemed like...
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Dec 19, 20224 min read
Tradwives: A Revolt Against Feminism or Capitalism?
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Dec 19, 20223 min read
Let Them Eat Cake: The Shift in our Cultural Perception of ‘Revolt’
Writing by Zoe Milton. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan When one thinks of revolting, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Is it some...
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Dec 19, 20223 min read
Paula Rego’s The Untitled: Abortion Pastels: challenging the ‘male gaze’ and giving women power back
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Oct 22, 20225 min read
Horny Holy Cohen
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Oct 22, 20224 min read
The Vices of Oscar Wilde
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Oct 22, 20222 min read
What Damien Hirst's Artwork 'For the Love of God' Tells us About Greed
Writing by Liv Bertani-Green. Damien Hirst’s artwork For the Love of God (2007) shows a human skull encrusted in diamonds – with a...
Rattlecap Writers
Oct 22, 20224 min read
Do Artists Have an Ethical Responsibility to Society?
Writing by Elizabeth Armitage. Artwork by Berenika Murray. I don’t think I am being controversial or radical when I say that art is very...
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Oct 22, 20226 min read
B-Movies, True Crime, and the Fetishization of Violent Crimes
Writing by Lucy Scalzo. Artwork by Berenika Murray. TW: discussions of sexual assault and rape Demi Moore is covered head-to-toe in blood...
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Oct 22, 20224 min read
The Arts V.s. the Artist: Should We Consume Art by Immoral Artists?
Writing by Rose Fox. Artwork by Kate Granholm (@katesartthings). Art, perhaps at its most fundamental form, is an exercise in the...
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Oct 22, 20226 min read
Sex, Drugs, and Other Vices in Fashion
Writing by Orane Bloch. Artwork by Sara Pocher. Fashion shocks, fashion takes a stand and fashion constantly evolves, morphing from one...
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Oct 22, 20226 min read
Artists and Their Substances
Writing by Orane Bloch. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. When doing research for this piece, most of the articles I stumbled upon were on the...
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Mar 3, 20224 min read
We Live in an Endemic Chaos on a Dying Planet: Let’s Watch Michael McIntyre’s 'The Wheel'
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Not a Goth
Writing by Amelia Morgan. Illustration by Cat Easeman. I first wanted to be a goth when I was 8 years old. I am now 23 and have failed....
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Slut, Virgin or Somewhere In-Between
How female sexuality is still being controlled by the patriarchy in 2022. Writing by Anonymous. I always imagined that I’d grown up in a...
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Peaceful Resistance Through the Arts
How the Harlem Renaissance was a fundamental step in improving the rights and lives of African Americans. Writing by Ayesha Dawson....
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Is being a ‘tortured soul’ a necessary prerequisit for creating good art?
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A Chaos of Masculinity: The Relationship between Dominant and Subordinate Masculinities
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A post-lockdown conversation with myself
Writing by Anonymous. Illustration by Sara Pocher. Like many people, I had a lot of time to think during the pandemic. One question I...
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Jan 25, 20223 min read
NFTs: the latest species in the digital art ecosystem
Writing by Isabella Yeo Frank. Illustration by Berenika Murray (@photograberry_). On the last day of 2021, Eminem spent $462,000 on an...
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Jan 25, 20228 min read
The Evolution of the Period Drama Genre
Writing by Aria Tsvetanova. Illustration artist unknown - titled "Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies, English School" and dated to the...
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Jan 25, 20224 min read
From Asian Faces to Asian Aesthetics: the Legacy of James Bond’s Anti-Asian Racism
Writing by Juules Bare. Illustration via Unsplash. To say that the James Bond franchise has a complicated legacy would be an...
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Nov 25, 20216 min read
Cottagecore, or why the pandemic made us embrace rural fantasy
Writing by Aria Tsvetanova. Illustration by Berenika Murray (@photograberry_) Thatched roof cottages, pies and loaves of bread cooling on...
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Sep 23, 20216 min read
Finding Sexual Freedom Being Trapped by my Own Body
Writing by Ellie Bye. Illustration by Lana Fawaz. At the centre of all life is sex. It is, possibly, the most natural thing on our...
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Sober, queer, and finally free
Writing by T. Elliot. Illustration by Berenika Murray. TW: contains mentions of alcohol abuse. If you are worried about your own or...
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Edinburgh and Disability: How accessible is the city now that we have “freedom” again?
Writing by Bella Henricks. Illustration by Berenika Murray. August 2021 saw the vast majority of Covid restrictions lifted in Scotland....
Rattlecap Writers
Sep 23, 20216 min read
Limbo: Waiting to be Free
Writing by Ali Gavin. To be trapped every day in anxious anticipation is not to be free. To be forced into this after a period of...
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“It is okay to dance alone”
How The Roop’s 2021 Eurovision Entry might encourage us to practice self love and find comfort in isolation. Writing and illustration by...
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The Feminine Mystique: Is it a textbook for female liberation?
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Sep 23, 20213 min read
How Gender Impacts Freedom in Black Bear
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Apr 27, 20216 min read
The Art of Letters: Works by Zarina Hashmi and Sophie Calle
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Apr 27, 20215 min read
The Image in a Network
Writing by Laura Baliman. Illustration by Sarah Phelan. All art exists within a network – a series of connections to other pieces, to...
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