The work of the award-winning Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide was exhibited in London in August at the Photographer’s Gallery. One of her photos, shown in The Prisma’s review of the exhibition, was of four women standing in front of a wall mural of Benito Juárez and Villa y Zapata.   […]

We are creatures of desire and, unlike the need of a hungry person for food, desire cannot be satisfied. Nor, unlike an infant’s demand for love, can it be assuaged and appeased.   Review by Sean Sheehan Photos by Photo Marc Brenner   We are all, in one way or […]

Reading Karl Marx’s “Capital” Volume 1, in English has until now verged on the gruelling, more a vocation than a pleasure. For too long, the most ready-to-hand edition has been the Penguin one, all 1141 pages of it, first published in 1976. Sean Sheehan   Its small print gave it […]

Entities in the world, from sub-atomic particles upwards, lack completion and a fullness of being. People are no exception: self-alienation, the lack of self-identity, is an irreducible aspect of our existence that we should get used to.   Sean Sheehan    The moral, as Todd McGowan indicates in the subtitle […]

On the evening of August 31, a protest took place outside Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London, calling on the theatre to cut its links with one of its chief sponsors, Barclays Bank.   Sean Sheehan   As part of its business, Barclays Bank is involved with companies that supply weapons […]