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untitled book review of The Small Press Model, Simon Cutts (Uniformbooks)
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The Problem of London
Get PDFBook review of Modern Buildings in London, Ian Nairn (Notting Hill Editions) and London's South Bank. The History, Mirielle Galinou (Your London Publishing
MAI Feminism & Visual Culture: Focus Issue Ten: Feminist Discourse in Comics & Graphic Novels
No full textThis issue shines the spotlight on feminist discourse in comics and graphic novels. As a medium, comics exist in a liminal space between literature and visual art. They tell stories that tend to unfold within the tension between words—or even lack thereof—and pictures. Unlike film or television, they allow us to follow their narratives at our chosen speed. Some argue that comics are the most versatile media because they represent the broadest of churches, from charcoal sketches to watercolour paintings, from newspaper strips and satirical cartoons to prestige hardback volumes (and all points in between).
Importantly, comics and graphic novels by female practitioners that approach themes of identity and belonging from a feminist or LGBTQ+ standpoint are central to the current resurgence of the medium. Whether fiction or autobiography, and across a wide range of genres, critiques of dominant patriarchal cultures are key to their narrative content, context, and structure.
Our authors speak of comics and graphic novels in the context of burningly relevant, global topics such as women in Iran, contemporary Arab feminism, abortion, and queer struggles. Next to it, we feature work looking at the Suffragettes, the 1990s Zine culture and an examination of alcohol use in one of the most popular Scandinavian comic series, to name but a handful.
Alongside critical reflection, we present creative submissions and interviews with comics practitioners. For example, Sarah Lightman offers watercolour depictions of Biblical women escaping historical paintings only to find themselves trapped in the modern miasma of Covid lockdowns. Sydney Heifler’s graphic project explores post-rape PTSD, and Miki Shaw uses her creative practice to debate the realities of parenting. These pieces sit alongside illuminating conversations with such figures as Mariko Tamaki, Jiipu Uusitalo, Bishakh Som, and Ana Penyas.
Elsewhere in this issue, we feature an appraisal of Marie Kreutzer’s celebrated 2022 film Corsage, a timely and sobering conversation with director Irina Tsilyk on the subject of filming on the frontline of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, and and a breath-taking and ambitious creative and critical hybrid interpretation of the sick lives and works of Bessie Bruce and Cookie Mueller, which activates loving epistolary exchanges across time to theorise letter writing as feminist care.
The presented collection of work was compiled and edited by a team led by Houman Sadri that included Ariel Kahn (Middlesex University), Laura Antola (University of Turku) and Anna Misiak. It was commissioned at the height of the pandemic, taking shape during a difficult and tumultuous time for everyone. Yet, our contributors and guest editors’ commitment and perseverance have been inspirational
After the Miners' Strike
Get PDFIn this rich memoir, the first of two volumes, Paul Farmer traces the story of A39, the Cornish political theatre group he co-founded and ran from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Farmer offers a unique insight into A39’s creation, operation, and artistic practice during a period of convulsive political and social change.
The reader is plunged into the national miners’ strike and the collapse of Cornish tin mining, the impact of Thatcherism and ‘Reaganomics’, and the experience of touring Germany on the brink of reunification, alongside the influence on A39 of writers Bertolt Brecht, John McGrath and Keith Johnstone. Farmer, a former bus driver turned artistic director, details the theatre group’s inception and development as it fought to break down social barriers, attract audiences, and survive with little more than a beaten-up Renault 12, a photocopier and two second-hand stage lights at its disposal: the book traces the progress from these raw materials to the development of an integrated community theatre practice for Cornwall
Untitled review of Exit Stage Left: the Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars, Nick Duerden (374pp, £20, Headline)
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The Digging Season - examining the ecological impact and cultural legacy of peat extraction on the Somerset Levels
Get PDFPeat has been mined in Somerset since the Roman occupation, and thereafter successive authorities have been determined to drain, shore-up, and otherwise ‘improve’ what is England’s largest wetland. The desiccation of the Somerset Levels has released millions of tons of CO2 that had built up over the past seven thousand years or so. This story is devastatingly similar to that of peatlands and wetlands around the world. Healthy bogs can sequester carbon on colossal scales, but when they dry out, stored carbon decomposes and they become net producers of greenhouse gasses. Globally, wetlands and bogs are currently releasing around 2 billion tons of CO2 annually and have a severe impact on climate change.
Whilst peat has accumulated across the millennia on the Somerset Levels, the anaerobic conditions have preserved artefacts that would otherwise have rotted. The Somerset Levels and Moors have revealed a wealth of information about the earliest farming communities who settled there around 6,000 years ago. Many artefacts are archaeologically unique and provide an understanding of ancient cultures that we would otherwise be ignorant of.
Topographic photographs of the final throes of the peat mining industry are presented alongside artefacts that were discovered in the process of peat cutting. Illustrations of contemporary objects (inspired by line drawings made in the 1970s and ‘80s by the Somerset Levels Project who were responsible for much of the archaeological fieldwork on the Levels) allude towards future possibilities for this beguiling place – whether they are positive or bleak. Made in collaboration with landscape architect Jenny Hyden, the ‘show bog’ approximates a wet healthy raised bog, as would have covered much of the Somerset Levels, had they remained untouched
From internships to freelancing and beyond...
No full textEngaging effectively with undergraduate students to produce entrepreneurial internships and freelance opportunities presents many challenges.
Over a one-year period approximately 150 students engaged with a variety of internship and freelance opportunities provided by startups in the Launchpad Venture Studio at Falmouth University. Student profiles ranged from year one to three and were from a wide variety of disciplines including Robotics, the Games Academy, Film & TV, Business School, Photography and many more.
This presentation looks at what we did, what the outcomes were, what went well and what things we need to do differently in the future
INNOVATION INVESTMENT PITCHING - A SHORT GUIDE FOR START UPS
No full textA 12 STEP PROCESS AND GUIDE FOR STARTUPS WANTING TO DEVELOP A HIGH QUALITY PITC
Some Interesting Apples
Get PDFA speculative exploration of the potential of seedling apples.
The publication Some Interesting Apples edited by William Arnold was produced for the Wild Apple Workshop, Walled Garden Orchard Tremough Campus Penryn, April 28th 2023 with support from Arts & Culture Exeter and the Environment and Sustainability Institute.
The essay Pioneers was presented at The Future Geographies of Food panel at the Royal Geographical Society Conference 2023