The rhetoric of Slavoj Žižek’s cultural critique is steeped firmly in spectacle and popular culture. He is a vibrant and colourful public intellectual who assaults his listeners with a Leftist dialectic that nonetheless seems to revel in the products of the capitalist system – without them, Žižek’s work would surely be maimed of its characteristic [...]

Lamia, Lilith, serpent and seductress; the rich history of the female vampire serves to remind us that she did not appear recently as a feminist response to a heterosexual male-dominated society, but has been with us since the dawn of creation. Literally.

The last judgement is the youngest day, and it is a day surpassing all days. Not that judgement is reserved for the end of time. On the contrary, justice won’t wait; it is to be done at every instant, to be realized all the time, and studied also (it is to be learned). Every just [...]

One of Foucault’s most controversial claims was that our notion of man and all that it includes is merely a product of the modern epistemic epoch, which he says is on the decline. While humanism declared man the creator of discourse and science, Foucault maintains that ‘we do not produce science, it produces us’. 1 [...]

Walter Sickert’s painting, Ennui, depicts idleness, isolation and weariness of thought brought on by profound boredom. The two figures in the painting are near each other but they are facing opposite directions, conveying a sense of isolation and languor, creating a heavy atmosphere. Sickert’s painting does not depict a scene but an experience ― that [...]