Tag: capitalism
Big Money and The Arts
The Booker Prize Foundation has lost a £1.6 million sponsorship deal with London-based hedge fund managers, The Man Group. Despite the Foundation’s grace under...
The Death of The Author: A Fun, Expensive Funeral
I just finished a Creative Writing course here in Exeter, which was lovely. It doesn’t make me art, or an artist, but it did...
Expensive Tastes
I am the first to admit that I have expensive taste. This position is rarely in congruence with my bank account – like most...
The Haunting Lessons of Issue Horror
A desolate castle rising out of a jagged hilltop, surrounded on all sides by dense forest. A full moon in the inky, starless sky above....
Meal deal mayhem
Once every month or so, numerous articles will slither around the internet telling millennials to stop doing something: stop ruining diamonds, stop ruining brunch,...
Is Valentine’s Day Just a Capitalist Holiday?
As a perpetually single girl, I tend to turn into Bridget Jones come Valentine’s Day. I eat the entire contents of my fridge, drink...
New Year’s Resolutions: Just another capitalist guilt trip?
This Christmas I was given guilt as a gift but, naturally, with the state of the postal service, it arrived just in time for...
Anti-establishment politics: a threat to capitalism?
With the fall of communism in 1989, theorists such as Francis Fukyama professed an end to ‘history’, a new era of politics for the...
Second thoughts: The problem of free will
Katie Russell - The capitalist's conundrum
We all seem to think that we are responsible for our own actions and that we have unique identities....
