This story focuses on the UK, but is relevant anywhere. Politics in the UK has come to grinding halt, the Conservative Party advertises the idea of change whilst the Labour Party has members of the bourgeoisie high up in the chain of command. The politics has settled into neoliberalism with…

The comparison between charity and solidarity justifies an interpretation of duality. There are similar phrases in leftist spaces that inspire similar duos of concepts. “Liberation, not assimilation”, for example. Outside of politics, there is also the duality of sympathy and empathy. Others before me have used a hole to describe…

A spectre is haunting the world – the spectre of practice without theory. Imagine, for a second, that you are an avid, inspired dancer. You have grand plans to synthesise the art of underwater basket-weaving into the art of ballet, whilst using the entire dance to perform a postmodern retelling…

Structure can be thought of here as a formula, pattern or similar idea that these words produce in the context of art. The Hero’s Journey, for example, is a good example of structure in narrative. The tendency for structure in art is but a recognition of what audiences find pleasing…

Relation with Poetry It is criminal to define rap as a form of poetry. I do generalise but I must if I where to interpret wide, ever-changing art forms. There would be little hope in nuance author and readers alike would understand anyways. Rap has been popularly defined as “Rhythm and Poetry”, but…

YouTuber MrBeast is recreating the concept of popular Netflix Original, Squid Game. Hundreds of participants will compete for a cash prize playing children games, which will be uploaded to YouTube as entertainment. This is similar to the original, where wealthy individuals bet on the winner. …

Here is everything required to understand the meaning of these terms from zero knowledge, starting with basic definitions. The means of production is everything required to produce a commodity (good/service) apart from labour. Socialism is the collective, common or public ownership of the means of production. Because socialism is such…

Acknowledging the effect of society on individuals is an impetus for the improvement of society. Understanding the faults of a system produces systemic change. …

I’ve kind of duped you with the title of this piece, it has a couple interpretations: The notion of respect is entirely conservative. The specifically conservative notion of respect, of which there are non-conservative notions. Now, respect is something that everyone should give and receive. Perhaps it is a strange…