When Status Anxiety is No Longer Just in Your Head: a review of Black Mirror’s Nosedive

25th October 2016

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We would like to believe, just like all those flowered memes flying across Twitter and Instagram, that it doesn’t matter what…

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The Spectre of Memory: Psychoanalysing Bond

16th November 2015

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Bond is not really a man for the analytic couch – he has little time for self-reflection, what with all that…

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Interstellar: The Ghost is Not in the Machine

10th November 2014

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Poor Christopher Nolan. He must have wanted to flagellate himself (hard) when Gravity came out. No doubt Interstellar was more than…

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The elusive experience of youth: Boyhood, a psychological review

21st July 2014

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Oscar Wilde famously quipped that youth was wasted on the young. When you hear this quote as a young person, either you…

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Enlightenment 2.0: “Her” and technologically assisted transcendence

16th February 2014

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We are living in exciting times. Few of us can remember an epoch when we weren’t all so goddamned self-reflexive. Everyday…

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Gravity: on letting go in order to live.

9th November 2013

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Gravity is a visually stunning masterpiece of a film. From the trailers one is led to believe that we are in…

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