Surpassing realism: How surrealism offers an alternative
Writing by Elizabeth Hamilton, artwork by Berenika Murray. Mark Fischer’s Capitalist Realism is my anti-capitalist gospel, but it bares...
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- Feb 29
- 5 min
Exploring the value in the surreal - the threshold between dreams and reality
Writing by Martha Gane, artwork by Elana Munasinghe. My friend Livs recently called me one Sunday morning in a panic. I was sat camped in...
- Oct 30, 2023
- 4 min
Pornography and the social reality of women
Writing by Robbie Grieve. Artwork by Lana Kenneth. Pornography - we’ve all watched it (well, most of us have). In the span of a...
- Oct 30, 2023
- 3 min
The Body as Political Battleground: Biopolitics and Self Destruction
Writing by Robert Hansell. Artwork by Lucienne Saisselin. Rage Against the Machine’s 1992 self titled album cover features an image of...
- Oct 30, 2023
- 7 min
'Corporeal, Ethereal'
Writing by Kuba Olszak. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. ‘I am really distinct from my body and can exist without it’, posited Renee Descartes...
- Feb 25, 2023
- 4 min
Bloody Get Over It
Writing by Elli Efird. Artwork by Berenika Murray. “I think I’ve made a mistake…with my body,” she says, dripping red onto the green...
- Feb 25, 2023
- 3 min
Catharsis and Negative Emotions
Writing by Rose Fox. Artwork by Antonia Popescu. ‘That light, this pain (what never translates).’ ‘A Pain That Is Not Private’ by Lara...
- Feb 25, 2023
- 4 min
The Cathartic Power of Protesting
Writing by Jamie Calder. Artwork by Rosa Rucola (soon to be found @rucolasexternalbrain) It may be a somewhat cynical view but I believe...
- Feb 25, 2023
- 3 min
Observation & the Hypnotising Appeal of Tragedy
Writing by Naya Sudra. Artwork by Polly Burnay. It would be difficult to deny that the culture of Ancient Greek theatre has shaped the...
- Feb 25, 2023
- 3 min
Jealousy as Catharsis
Writing by Lizzie Armitage. Artwork by Cilla Sullivan Negative catharsis exists, and I’m ashamed to admit that I experience it regularly....
- Oct 22, 2022
- 4 min
Dante's Influence on Modern Vice and Virtue
Writing by Emily Tennant. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. How does religion use the concepts of vice and virtue to control the masses? Here,...
- Oct 22, 2022
- 2 min
Original Sin, Eve, Vice, and the Female Experience
Writing by Caitlin Tambini. Artwork by Hannah Udall. Since Pandora opened the box and Eve ate the apple, across religions, continents and...
- Jun 1, 2022
- 4 min
Solidarity and Apocalypse
Writing by Jamie McDonald. We lurch out of the coronavirus frying pan back into the climate wildfire. The world may have stopped for two...
- Jun 1, 2022
- 4 min
Queer Survival in an Apocalyptic World
Writing by Noushka Summerfield. Illustration by Dafne de Fine Licht. “Good evening fellow cisgender heterosexuals, and of course, normal...
- Jun 1, 2022
- 6 min
Our Red Heifer
Writing by Gabriel Brody. Illustration by Cat Easeman. Somewhere in the American Southeast there is a man called Clyde Lott, who, at this...
- Mar 3, 2022
- 3 min
‘I was called a skank because my high school did not have stables’
The intersection of classism and misogyny at Edinburgh University[1] Writing by Grace Gallagher. Illustration by Dani Rothmann. Despite...
- Mar 3, 2022
- 4 min
The Chaos and Confusion of Catholic Sex-Ed
Writing by Elsa Simmons. Illustration by Berenika Murray. Leaving my Catholic secondary school offered a certain clarity to my experience...
- Jan 25, 2022
- 4 min
A Logo On Every Leaf?
Writing by Bill Hodgkinson. Illustration by Justine White. Tucked away in chapter four of On the Origin of Species lies one of Darwin’s...
- Jan 25, 2022
- 4 min
Far from democratising money, Cryptocurrency is the next evolution in Disaster Capitalism
Writing by Jamie McDonald. Illustration by Berenika Murray (@photograberry_). The world lurches in a crypto-chasm. In 2021, El Salvador...
- Jan 25, 2022
- 3 min
My body, someone else’s choice: Abortions through history
Writing by Emma Brennan. Illustration by Berenika Murray. Like many aspects of women’s lives throughout history, men have often used...
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