Issue 6.2

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Book Apps and Digital Textuality

With its vast storage capacity for digitising the majority of canonised literary works, the Internet offers a wide variety of resources for contemporary readers. Unsurprisingly, the digital medium…

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Deep State and the Future of Theatre

Christina Scholz May 31, 2017 3 Comments activism Arab Spring Boal Brad Butler cinema Deep State Egypt Karen Mirza Miéville protest revolution Scholz Theatre Theatre of the Oppressed time travel torture vimeo

Karen Mirza and Brad Butler's 2012 film project Deep State, scripted by China Miéville, tells the story of a time traveller who passes through holes in conventional history created by the irruptive power of riots.

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With Love from Iceland

Andy Hageman May 31, 2017 No Comments Andri Snær Magnason banking crash 2008 capitalism capitalist realism crisis crunch lit ecology financial crash Iceland Land of Love and Ruins LoveStar mythology nature Oddný Eir Reykjavik tourism

Iceland is, to put it weirdly, so hot right now. Iceland is circulating through the social imaginary in a number of big-budget cinematic vehicles: Dr. Mann’s uninhabitable planet in Interstellar…

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Will 2017 be 1984?

Ben Worthy May 31, 2017 No Comments 1984 Aldous Huxley anti-fascist doublethink dystopia George Orwell H. G. Wells Katharine Burdekin Nineteen Eighty-Four Oceania post-truth Thomas More totalitarianism utopia

As part of Birkbeck’s Arts Week 2017, we organised a panel titled "Will 2017 be 1984" (you can listen to a podcast recording of the panel here) which considered the uncanny relevance of Orwell’s novel…