Category Archives: Culture

The Empire Locker

If you want a signifier of the changed image of empire, and imperial adventures in foreign lands, think about last Sunday’s six Oscars for The Hurt Locker, including ones for Best Movie and Best Director. The film’s director, Kathryn Bigelow, said at the end of her acceptance speech, “I’d like to dedicate this to the women [...]

Tu es Petrus

Freezer

Funereal

Glendale

Arnold Boecklin, Island of the Dead, 1883

Pandemic Capitalism

Health scares are like terrorist ones. Someone somewhere has an interest in it. Simon Jenkins