In order to situate and apply the theory of metamorphosis to the challenges and opportunities within climate change we need to outline its key elements through Beck’s own work and the work of Rasborg (2018) and Lash (2003). This will be achieved by using the work of Honeybun-Arnolda (2017) to critically engage with some of […]
Read more "Ulrich Beck’s Metamorphosis Theory: How applicable is it?"“[T]he overt ‘signs’ of race.. in video games are epiphenomenal on-screen symptoms of far more entrenched racial fictions encoded within.” FICKLE, 2019, P.2 The dialectical relationship between society and the simulation of video games allows paradigms of racism to be grafted onto alien worlds with alternate races and socio-economic strifes. This report is limited by […]
Read more "Report: The reconstruction of systemic racism within video games"How useful is diversity? Whether used as a word, concept, or action we need to cautiously examine institutional motivation around its use and application. In ‘On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life’ Sara Ahmed asks necessary and often overlooked questions such as ‘what does diversity do?’ and seeks to unpack the language of […]
Read more "‘On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life’ Sara Ahmed: Book Review"With climate change humanity is facing a possibly insurmountable obstacle: the need to disentangle ourselves from the tightly knit relationship of neoliberalism, its commodification of our planet, and our need to consume. This essay will seek to define climate change and explore any causal link as it relates to society, examine several key impacts of […]
Read more "Climate Change: A Global Social Problem?"On June 7th, 2020, as part of the Black Lives Matter Protests (BLM), the statue of Edward Colston was pulled down and thrown into the Avon river in the City of Bristol. The powerful imagery of this statue being pulled down by Bristol residents made headlines around the world re-igniting discussions on, some for and […]
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