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5 Mar 2019

Wilding: In Praise of the Knepp Farm Project

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Cover design by Neil Lang (Picador, 2018) I. Author Isabella Tree and her husband, the conservationist Charlie Burrell, are founde...
4 Mar 2019

The Jungle of Everyday Life: In Anticipation of Rob Dunn's New Book 'Never Home Alone'

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(Basic Books, 2018) A book I'm very much looking forward to reading when published in the UK later this month is Rob Dunn'...
3 Mar 2019

On Comic Relief and the Figure of the Great White Saviour (with Reference to the Case of Stacey Dooley Vs David Lammy)

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Look what I'm holding! I. Labour MP David Lammy isn't often right. But he's fully justified in his recent criti...
2 Mar 2019

Faith and Feminism in Pakistan

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(Folio Books, Lahore, 2018) The new book by feminist scholar and activist Afiya S. Zia - Faith and Feminism in Pakistan (2018) - ...
27 Feb 2019

Psychrophilia: Or Love (and Death) in a Cold Climate

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Portrait by Tamara de Lempika (1929) The white races, having the arctic north behind them, the vast abstraction of ice and snow,  ...
26 Feb 2019

Asphyxiophilia: Reflections on the Case of Gerald and Gudrun

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Oliver Reed as Gerald and Glenda Jackson as Gudrun in  Women in Love (dir. Ken Russell, 1969) I. Asphyxiophilia As someone who h...
24 Feb 2019

Slippery When Wet: Reflections on D. H. Lawrence's Aquaphilia

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Image via derpibooru.org Aquaphilia is yet another form of sexual fetishism that we often come across in the work of Mr. D. H....
21 Feb 2019

Eco-Apocalypse: It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

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One of three images for the Destroying nature is destroying life campaign  by the environmental group Robin Wood (2016) I. So...
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19 Feb 2019

And They Dance by the Light of the Moon ...

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A Buffalo Gal as imagined by Mclaren and Westwood  in their Nostalgia of Mud  collection (1982/83)   I. Buffalo Gals  is a popu...
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15 Feb 2019

Pretty in Pink (Notes on the Engendering of Baby Mia)

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Baby Mia in a salmon pink cardigan I. Now that baby Mia is recognisably human - though still outside language - she is being col...
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