Wuthering Vibes
On Class and “Wuthering Heights”
'We need to talk about class.'
On Class and “Wuthering Heights”
'We need to talk about class.'
Why the Past Is Winning
'when the future feels especially volatile, it is all too human to reach for the past. But as three exhibitions currently on view in London prove, nostalgia can be an ambiguous business – and not always pretty.'
How Optimisation Colonised Visual Culture
"As life becomes smoother, faster, more optimised, we mistake the removal of friction for freedom — and then find ourselves bored, impotent, and aesthetically numbed, scrambling to reintroduce difficulty in symbolic or cosmetic ways."
On AI Slop
"We face a choice: sink narcotised into the enshitocene, or learn to swim alongside a million blonde Jesuses fused with crustaceans"
'In our anachronistic age, youth is the highest currency. And, just as the rich dodge tax, so too are they able to dodge mortality – the outward signs of it, at least.'