Cosmic Decay: What Was and What Could Be
Written by Ami John.
Illustrated by Beth Xia
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Failing to rot: what the preservation of corpses can tell us about historical memory
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Resist or Resist: An Exploration of Ethical Binaries in Genocide and Colonial Complicity
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Chiseling the Rock
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Existentialism, Sex and the Binary
Written by Angus Lees Miller, Illustrated by Lucienne Saisselin.
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Surpassing realism: How surrealism offers an alternative
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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...
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Pornography and the social reality of women
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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...
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'Corporeal, Ethereal'
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Bloody Get Over It
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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