Can Corbyn win? Elections, Destiny and David Eddings
The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as […]
Reviews
Review – The Young Pope
The philosopher Jacques Derrida once said ‘Inheritance is an act’. At least, I’ve been told he did. I’ve never read it myself, and as much […]
Belated Review: Klingons Into Darkness
I kind of enjoyed Star Trek: Into Darkness at the time, but the Klingons always bugged me in it. Now, I’m not going to go onto […]
Death of the Author: David Bowie’s Blackstar
This post inaugurates a mini-series of Belated Drafts. Basically, I’m working hard on the Ph.D. at the moment, so have less time to work on […]
Review: Star Trek: Beyond (2016)
The new Star Trek film is not only a good film, but it is actually an actual Star Trek film.Star Trek: Beyond or Star Trek: […]
Review: Jason Bourne (2016)
Jesus Christ, Jason Bourne is a terrible film. I’ll admit I didn’t want to go in the first place, so I wasn’t exactly in a […]
Book Review – Career of Evil
I read J. K. Rowling / Robert Galbraith’s Career of Evil this weekend. I’m not a great reader of fiction, as my exasperated friends know […]
Belated Review – Avatar (2009)
Avatar is a film that argues that human beings are mortally evil and inescapably isolated. It claims that the only moral solution to which is […]
Belated Review – The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Taking a much needed break from the Labour Leadership election, I want to speak about a film I recently rewatched for the first time in […]
Book Review – The Media Against Democracy
Thomas Field’s recently published The Media Against Democracy brings together philosophical themes from 21st and late 20th Century European philosophy and shows their political application […]
Robocop 2014: Freedom vs Technology
The Robocop reboot from earlier this year gave me faith that sci-fi isn’t dead. I expected a moody Nolan-esque remake, similar to the 2012 Dredd, that would […]
Film Review – Hannah Arendt – Philosophy and Harm
This review comes quite late, given that the film was released in 2012, but, despite the fact that Arendt is one of my favourite philosophers and […]