In Europe, we live in a laboratory petri dish of the future. The problems we face represent the future of the planet, culturally and naturally. Steve Latham For instance, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari posited the multiplication of multiplicities; the production of new subjectivities and identities. These possibilities […]
In Focus
In Focus
Cooking with Jane Austen
As all Jane Austen groupies will tell you, the people that inhabit her small but perfectly formed body of work are as real and immediate to us they were to Austen’s contemporaries. Sean Sheehan We all know a Mr Collins and it is a truth universally acknowledged that […]
US versus Cuba: point of no-return
Four years ago, on a Friday in June, as President, Donald Trump abrogated Obama’s presidential directive on normalising the ties with the island and signed a memorandum abolishing most of the progress made in the relations with Cuba. Such actions established a turning point for both nations. Karina Marrón […]
The big fat
On a recent day off, we cycled to a local reservoir, which has been redeveloped, as a leisure spot for stressed-out Londoners; a successful example of industrial re-purposing for a post-modern age. Steve Latham A brilliant sunny day, we sat at a small rickety table with tiny chairs, […]
On the trail of tranquility
Seeking to ‘glimpse the gentle law that guides the human race’ is a lofty if probably unattainable aspiration but the Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868), in the preface to the stories that make up his “Motley stones”, imputes such a desire to all of us. Sean Sheehan The […]
















