“Back to Human”
Hu chocolate was founded in 2012 by Jason H. Karp and his wife, Jordan Brown, to create a chocolate brand that is both delicious and healthy. The brand uses only ...
immersive art: innovative or destroying artistic essence?
Embodiment and a multi-sensorial experience of exhibitions has become an increasingly popular approach to exhibitions today, as we move away from the euro-centric ...
… but bad sons
PART 2 Meanwhile, however, what is an act of entanglement in one direction might be an act of disentanglement in another. For one thing, the gradual transition to ...
Brown teeth make good friends…
PART 1 We exited the bus and speedily manoeuvred past wobbling figures and through swarms of brightly coloured raincoats and umbrellas. To escape the wind-driven rain, ...
Our Selfless World
There does not seem to be any definite end to life, if by ‘life’ we mean the capacity for continual change; and yet, we insist on looking far afield to where ...
Sub fusc and Matriculation: A Spectacle and Performance
Let us first ask what’s all the sub fusc about? Sub fuscus is the Latin word for ‘dark brown’. It is a unique academic dress that is worn for important occasions ...
Negative nationalism and the “deception dollar”
The object in the Ashmolean money gallery that I found most interesting was the 9/11 conspiracy theory money. The “One Deception” bill is a parody of a $1 bill that ...
For an archaeology of debt
Most typical histories of money begin with the invention of coinage. The Ashmolean, for example, begins the story of money with the first ever coins invented in Lydia, ...
The strike – February 2023
The image is an assortment of different images from the picket line. It shows the signs written by precarious academic staff, telling their narratives of what precarity ...
Visibility and Illegality
It is when I visited the website of the Ashmolean museum that I encountered this banknote with words ‘Lesbian Money’ stamped on it. At the time, many gay press has ...
some more info about the strike
Hello Everyone! Thank you again for another glorious presentation. Well done also to all of you for being so gerenous with your contributions about lived experiences ...
I’m Just a Teenage Mushroom
In her ethnography of the matsutake mushroom, Tsing notes that as these mushrooms exchange hands and pass through its specific economic system, thye appreciate in value ...
The Third Ways: mirroring ourselves in the 20th century
Adam Curtis delivered a subtle 20th-century history of political philosophy, which might still be too close for many to be revealed. Technocrats retreated into the ...
Trust issues over paper money: a matter of material?
The value of money is no longer retained by the value of the material. Paper or non-precious metals are used to make money. Governments and the central bank thus ...
Money shouldn’t grow on trees
At first glance, the practice of Forest Bathing should be difficult to commodify. Derived from the Japanese practice of Shinrin Yoko, Forest Bathing involves slowly ...
‘the problem of adequation’ again
Dear all, I just realised that earlier in our class I told you that Marx talks about 'misrecognition' in relation to the deceit of the materiality of ...
WK1 – Anarchy?
Thank you again everyone for making our class this morning 'just perfect'. The presentation was truly 'epic' (and there have been quiet some extraordinary OiM ...
global war on poverty
The 2014 documentary Poverty Inc. demonstrates at the very first beginning why transnational aid does not essentially get transformed and work despite superficial ...