This is a guest post by Amina Yaqin, author of Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing The award-winning British Pakistani film, Rahm ([Mercy] (2016), an Urdu adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, reflects misogyny in Pakistani society translating a dark tale of power, sex and injustice. Sin and virtue are played out […]

This is a guest post by David Arditi, author of Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy: From Taping to Napster to TikTok The recording industry regularly paints its consumers as pariahs waiting for new technologies to hurt the very musicians they love. In Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy: From Taping to Napster to TikTok, […]

This is a guest post by Gabrielle Appleby and Megan Davis, authors of The Failure of the Voice Referendum and the Future of Australian Democracy   Don’t be fooled by the silence. Australia is still catching its breath after the defeat of the Voice referendum in October 2023. The rejection of the proposal to recognise […]

This is a guest post by Asegul Hulus, author of Beyond the Metrics: The Psychological Impact of Fitness Technology on Self-Image and Social Anxiety Six months have passed since I stashed my fitness watch in a drawer. Not because it broke, but because I did. Being a dedicated female bodybuilder and self-proclaimed ‘gym rat’, I […]

This is a guest post by Jasmine Sofia Jannif, author of Sentimental Songs, Melodrama and Filmic Narrative in Bollywood’s Golden Age (1951–1963) This book came to me late in life, but its origins go back to colonial heydays in the streets of Suva, Fiji, where with my father I watched Bollywood (Hindi) films in theatres […]

This is a guest post by Tony Fry, author of Disappearing Cities While the arrival of climate change is recognised by vast numbers of people globally, the scale and diversity of its impacts are not well comprehended. There is now a lot of data, and only a limited understanding, and very little visual evidence, of […]

This is a guest post by Pedro de Alcantara, author of Hands, Wrists, Fingers   My first clear memory of music is hearing my mother play a few sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti at the upright piano in our modest living room. I was five or six, and I remember walking and marching excitedly in response […]

This is a guest post by Benjamin Wild, author of Thom Browne In just over twenty years, Thom Browne has achieved something remarkable: he has made the grey suit revolutionary. The American designer’s distinctive uniform – cropped sleeves ending four inches above the wrist, trousers hemmed high above the ankle and those signature four white […]

This is a guest post by Mark Seligman, author of AI and Ada: Artificial Translation and Creation of Literature  Artificial intelligence has suddenly become real – or has it? To answer the question, we need a consensus definition of intelligence. We still don’t have one.   In the age of GenAI (ChatGPT and siblings), related […]