“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” (1984, p. 40).

It can be argued that Orwellian narrative appears multifaceted, projecting a general critique towards the communist ideals through the hyperbolised prism of a dormant future. However, the concept of the omnipresent systemic control embodies one of the most prominent societal threats of today. Despite the technological advances which led to the greater socio-economic interconnectivity, society became operated by the incarnation of the Big Brother in the form of the media. …

Or “in search of the Holy Grail”

“… And as she entered, on their tail,

And bearing in her hands the grail,

So great a brightness shone around…”

The following lines, written by de Troyes (2019, lines 3206–3208), allude to Perceval’s search for the Grail, a mystical object miraculously capable of providing unbounded felicity. Future generations began interpreting this Arthurian myth as a quest for an unachievable ideal, through which the sacred verity of its impossibility dawns along the horizon of enlightenment. Despite this fable’s literary domain, can its moral still be applied in the realm of politics?

The continuous…

Political scientist, Joel Olson, in his article expressed a resonating point of view on the optimal condition for success in the US, as he argued that Whiteness provided a

“glass floor below which the white citizen could see but never fall” (p. 708).

This article was published in 2008, however, Olson’s words agonizingly pulsate in the veins of the current polarized social organism.

It can be argued that Olson’s interpretation of the racial inequality may seem populist, with a clear appeal to the marginalized minorities. Nevertheless, in 2016, the median White family net worth was $171,000, whereas Black family shareholders’…

Marxist criticism literature explores the issue of social class and power and the treatment of lower-class people (Lisman, 1988, p.73). Within the novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, written in 1962, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn encompasses Marxist genre theory to express his socio-political criticism against the Stalinist era by portraying the social differences within the labour camp with the emphasis on the prisoners’ lives. The novel depicts one day in the life of the GULAG camp prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov accentuating the atrocities of the prisoner’s life, depicting the division of power within a society and the treatment of…

If by the very definition, identity is the notion of being self-conscious of your individuality, then why do social constraints frame our opinions of selfhood? Why do we need to be compared on the scale of an optimal ”appropriateness” to embrace our uniqueness?

Did Brandon Cronenberg make a good film?

In general, the work of Brandon Cronenberg epitomizes a visionary revolution. Each frame is verified to the ferula of sublimity, the colours were selected following the palette, and if blood splatters occur — they must be on a white background: fashionable sneakers or a white shirt. If the filmography of Cronenberg Sr. gave birth to its own…

The racism that underlies the slave trade is not a specter of the past. Likewise any virus, racism mutated into the new disgusting form of cultural conditioning, when the immigrants are forced to abandon their cultural identities in a blinding attempt to become “welcome”.

Did Remi Weekes make a good film?

While developing his debut film, Remi Weekes wanted, according to him, to do two things — shake up the horror genre and reflect the experience of coloured people in predominantly white Europe, as he claims, “When I, coloured, grew up in London, all the talk around was only about assimilation: how much you have to show…