We’re the generation of instant gratification. We need pleasure and stimulation now, fuck the consequences. The last time we took a ‘drugs are bad’ message seriously was when Harold the Healthy Giraffe came to our schools in year 6. Do… Continue Reading
Everyone else was doing it. What’s the harm in just trying? The sentiment of these 11 little words have led to the ruin of thousands. How blind I was. How arrogant. How safe I felt in my white, middle class,… Continue Reading
Here’s an idea; as we become more network literate, and rely on the internet for so much of our day to day activities we have created an environment where we can no longer choose to have any online privacy. If… Continue Reading
Although democracy in its modern incarnation does go hand in hand with capitalist economics it seems strange to me that a system of governance which relies on the dissemination of power throughout the people would be so linked with an… Continue Reading
The idea of Cultural Materialism, put forth by theorist Raymond Williams, is one which considers the wider cultural and historical propulsions that provide the background to certain technological developments. The reading puts forth that a technology such as the in… Continue Reading
Yesterday, in a televised appearance, President Barak Obama outlined his plan to push back the hardline Sunni extremist group, known as The Islamic State, or IS. At the time of writing, IS controls large areas of Northern Iraq and Syria… Continue Reading
By now you would have to have been almost completely disconnected from the popular zeitgeist to have no idea what the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is. However, for the inextricably uninitiated and for the structural flow of this piece i… Continue Reading