Saussure’s idea of semiotics was the instigation of a new movement in the philosophy of language. Its central tenet of the arbitrary relation of reality to language, the notion of language as a conventionally agreed upon system used to map out the world, had obvious ramifications for the perception of the world and our relation [...]

He liked police and liked criminals too but what he liked most were oriental artifacts. His house was full of them and he loved them all the same way. What often troubled his mind was...

Old but gold They used to tell Liars I'm now in hell

What do you do with a B.A? Despite arts students getting the brush-off in society, many of them go on to become editors, educators, writers, journalists, and everything in between. Jo Caruana, a graduate in B.A. Arts Journalism at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, and top editor and writer, tells Diane Brincat how she has conquered [...]

It was well before dawn; the sun’s furnaces were still cold as the last of the stars twinkled into the murky darkness, fading into the gloom.

Trust Julie to start getting neurotic on them, thought Adam while adjusting his tie in front of the mirror in the men’s bathroom. He frowned slightly at his reflected image; the tie still seemed slightly askew. Ever since he had known the girls, he always knew that Julie was the one who dictated how their [...]

Courtesy, as it is understood today, is defined more through its affiliation with other words denoting manner, temper and the observance of etiquette than as a concrete attribute to self-presentation delineated by set boundaries. [...] Grace, politeness and fellow consideration are, no doubt, qualities attached to courtesy, but as the word itself suggests, it once referred to a whole mode of behaviour, the practice of which was upheld in medieval courts.

One of central narrative achievements of the Legacy of Kain series is its ability to frustrate traditional videogame genre expectations, subverting them to overthrow the player’s assumptions. When observing the franchise, one is struck with its decade-long mindset of the developers in placing the story at the foreground of the experience, using the gameplay as a tool to slowly unravel the plot.

The gecko on the wall In our back-garden Is sixty gecko paces from the soil, The flower, the fly

It would be hard to deny that technology occupies the role of ‘other’ in our popular consciousness, in spite of the fact that it orbits around us throughout our lives. Our preoccupations regarding technology extend even to popular fiction – indeed, popular culture is a fertile breeding ground for myths surrounding technology to proliferate and [...]