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View article: A Sentimental Android? M3GAN (2022) and Monstrous Doubling as a Negotiation of the Gendered Neo-Liberal Self
A Sentimental Android? M3GAN (2022) and Monstrous Doubling as a Negotiation of the Gendered Neo-Liberal Self Open
This paper analyses the android M3GAN in the 2022 film of the same name, problematising recent framings that celebrate M3GAN as a gay icon, a feminist figure, or understand her as embodying our collective fear of artificial intelligence. I…
View article: The 2022 ENCR Recommendations on recording and reporting of urothelial tumours of the urinary tract
The 2022 ENCR Recommendations on recording and reporting of urothelial tumours of the urinary tract Open
An updated European Network of Cancer registries (ENCR) Recommendations on Recording and Reporting of Urothelial Tumours of the Urinary Tract had been published in 2022. After the publication by the ENCR of the “Recommendations for coding …
View article: Impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer registration and cancer care: a European survey
Impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer registration and cancer care: a European survey Open
Background The coronavirus disease COVID-19 pandemic posed a number of challenges to the oncology community, particularly the diagnosis and care of cancer patients while ensuring safety from the virus for both patients and professionals: m…
View article: Mutational signatures in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma from eight countries with varying incidence
Mutational signatures in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma from eight countries with varying incidence Open
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) shows remarkable variation in incidence that is not fully explained by known lifestyle and environmental risk factors. It has been speculated that an unknown exogenous exposure(s) could be responsi…
View article: The Reproachful Head of The Green Knight
The Reproachful Head of The Green Knight Open
My fine art PhD title is The High Wasteland: Scar, Form & Monstrosity in the English Landscape. My research, which comprises both theory and art practice, is concerned with the relationships between the subject, landscape and monstrosity w…
View article: Mutational signatures in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma from eight countries of varying incidence
Mutational signatures in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma from eight countries of varying incidence Open
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) shows a remarkable variation in incidence which is not fully explained by known lifestyle and environmental risk factors. It has been speculated that an unknown exogenous exposure(s) could be respo…
View article: Three-sided World; Interview with Stuart Jones
Three-sided World; Interview with Stuart Jones Open
Exposition and contextualisation of contemporary painter Stuart Jones (features an interview).
View article: No Heroic Male Master
No Heroic Male Master Open
No matter how often the notion of authenticity is kicked around by critics and theorists as a myth, delusion, or even (in scientific circles) as user illusion of the machine, there is an undeniable ‘affect’ in looking at the work of a genu…
View article: Keys and Red Herrings
Keys and Red Herrings Open
Nigel Grimmer works in photography and sculpture (assemblage in the Dada sense may be a more accurate description) to explore identity, glamour, kitsch and authenticity. Immediate qualities in the presentation which come through at first a…
View article: Spiralling Intentionally Towards Figuration
Spiralling Intentionally Towards Figuration Open
David Treloar is an artist living and working in London who initially trained as a painter before adopting a multidisciplinary approach to his work. However, after becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the unresolved, detached influence …
View article: Joker, a Film to Fall Out Over?
Joker, a Film to Fall Out Over? Open
Re-humanising monsters and othering heroes. Exposition and critique of Joker(2019). Why have so many critics condemned a clear masterpiece; could it be that there class sensibilities have been hurt?
View article: William Kentridge In Praise of Shadows
William Kentridge In Praise of Shadows Open
The pursuit of truth should not lead us to totalitarian certainty and William Kentridge proposes that art practice is the key to holding illusion and insight in balance.
View article: Creative and Critical Curation at the Mostyn Gallery
Creative and Critical Curation at the Mostyn Gallery Open
Michael Eden explains why the appointment of curator Juliette Desorgues is an exciting one for the Mostyn Gallery and by extension British art.
View article: Hypnotic memories of the future
Hypnotic memories of the future Open
The ominous and ambiguous relevance of technology and science are put under scrutiny in the work of painter Adam Dix. Dix is a visual artist working in a mode trail-blazed mainly by writers like H.G. Wells, Philip K. Dick and Kurt Vonnegut…
View article: Pain, Wit and Gesture
Pain, Wit and Gesture Open
The visual oxymoron of a whimsical and lyrical tendency combined with raw, almost brutal elements is the driving tension that gives Andrew Litten’s work impact. He is an expressionist painter and, although he had some formal training (even…
View article: Alchemical transformations in soul and psyche
Alchemical transformations in soul and psyche Open
Personal and societal transformation is channelled directly through the body of the artist in the ritualistic works of Bert Gilbert. Gilbert’s interdisciplinary works include performance, costume, photography, fetishistic objects and 2D wo…
View article: Suffering And Transformation: the body as a symbol for psychic change
Suffering And Transformation: the body as a symbol for psychic change Open
Physical and mental suffering: mutilation, searing pain and trauma can be given context and even made to work for our best interests; we have a long history of bloody myths and fairy tales and a modern history of updating these in the prem…
View article: Neo-Modernism: soul nourishing renaissance
Neo-Modernism: soul nourishing renaissance Open
Another enlightenment is needed to break the deadlock. Can we have another renaissance? why not, Neo-Modernism only needs its own Michelangelo to fuel a return to modernism's core values.
View article: Alter-modern, Claiming a New Era
Alter-modern, Claiming a New Era Open
Prefixes are the preferred way to end an era, alter of post? In 2009 at the Tate the concepts of ‘Alter-modern’ and ‘relational aesthetics’ were deployed to announce the end of postmodernity.
View article: You’re Not Living You’re Just Killing Time
You’re Not Living You’re Just Killing Time Open
A warning to the conspiracy theorists from Ray Bradbury, You! Many be your truest saboteur.
View article: Postmodernity, a Trinity of Crises
Postmodernity, a Trinity of Crises Open
Afflicted by crisis art mutates, transforms and reacts. Exploration and critique of postmodernity.
View article: Postmodernism: Anti-Art reflecting a knowing society
Postmodernism: Anti-Art reflecting a knowing society Open
The ways that art interrogates itself or shocks the mass media? Exploration and critique of postmodernity.
View article: Postmodernism ‘Phoenix’ In Commas
Postmodernism ‘Phoenix’ In Commas Open
There is much debate about what epoch we are currently in, have we moved from postmodernism to some other overarching force? Probably not!
View article: Geoff Diego Litherland, Painter of Another Present
Geoff Diego Litherland, Painter of Another Present Open
Do you live in the present or the past in a possible future? Exposition and contextualisation of Geoff Diego's art practice.
View article: China's Contemporary Cultural Revolution, Voicing the Tensions of a Democratised Culture
China's Contemporary Cultural Revolution, Voicing the Tensions of a Democratised Culture Open
The rest of the world may have to seriously consider how the rise in Chinese power will affect our lives. Western hegemony is waning, and its stewardship of world culture is a mixed bag: freedom and equality are stained with slavery and ex…