Alejandro left Spain when he was eighteen to study law in London. He is now twenty one and reminisces how he grew as a person by stepping up to the challenges he faced, when he moved to an unknown country. Gianluca Bausch He always had the dream to […]
Author: ThePrisma
Abolishing the police
It is easy to think of socially useful functions carried out by the police and every now and again media attention is aroused when police violence and criminality is made public. Sean Sheehan Citizens are assured that rotten apples in the barrel can be removed but what if […]
The only constant in life is change
Slavoj Zizek has written that a frustrating aspect of the pandemic is that it continues without end, with no conclusion. It is an ongoing emergency, which proceeds non-teleologically in different stages. Steve Latham As we are learning, with the virus a permanent presence in our world, the implications […]
Social construction and racism
Following my previous article, on unconscious bias, can we say that social constructionism, is itself socially constructed? If the claims social construction makes for itself are true, then the answer must be ‘yes’. Foisted on its own petard, indeed? Nigel Pocock What of this darling of so many […]
What we might look like in the future
The colour of our skin will be darker, we will not have any hair on our bodies, we will have fewer teeth, our toes will disappear, and if the ‘computer generation’ continues not to use their brains to their maximum capacity, brainpower will also inevitably reduce. Nicholas Valdes […]