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Social Class and Revolt in Parasite and Joker

April 18, 2020 · Jana Tsoneva ·

While Joker depicts the anti-capitalist rebellion as merely an aesthetic dead-end event, led by a madman on a killing spree, Parasite constructs a figure of the working class that does not attempt a rebellion when crushed by the system.

Tagged With: class identities, film review, neoliberalism, social class

Bejn Gwarniċ u Ieħor fi Truf il-Essri

February 5, 2020 · Kevin Saliba ·

Fil-versi ta’ Grech Ganado, b’mod partikulari f’din il-ġabra, il-qarrejja impenjati faċilment jistgħu jilmħu l-ilħna mkissra ta’ kittieba bipolari bħal Sylvia Plath, Annie Sexton, Dorothy Parker u Virginia Woolf.

Tagged With: mental health, poetry, saħħa mentali

Il-Kuraġġ li Taqta’ Jiesek

January 18, 2020 · Kevin Saliba ·

F’din ir-reċensjoni jinterpreta dawn ir-rakkonti ta’ Mifsud bħala stqarrija xettika kontra kull slogan assolutist u—fuq kollox—bħala att qalbieni ta’ qtigħ il-jies.

Tagged With: literature, neoliberalism, review

Like a Grain of Sand: Exposing Disempowerment of Ordinary People

October 19, 2019 · Elizabeth Grech ·

Written by Salvatore Arena and Massimo Barilla, “Like a grain of sand—Giuseppe Gulotta, story of an innocent” tells the story of Giuseppe attempting to give justice to a life nearly entirely taken away for dreadful reasons.

Tagged With: social justice, theatre

Heritage: Commodity, Public Good, or Commons? Radical insights from the 19th Century Heritage Movement

August 27, 2019 · Alexandra Kowalski ·

Behind preservation laws lies a broader cultural fact: the collective belief that some works of historical and artistic value are inalienable and that their true value is over and above any exchange value they may acquire on markets. 

Tagged With: commons, heritage, utopia, Utopian Nights

Malta’s National Anthem? It’s Noise.

August 21, 2019 · Raisa Galea ·

“National Anthem”, a solo exhibition by Kevin Mallan is a verdict, a protest song and, in the artist’s own words, “an outcry for this island and what the order of the day has become to signify”.

Tagged With: art, Environment, neoliberalism, politics

Nimxu Mixja: Malta’s Own Yellow Vests Mini-Revolution

June 26, 2019 · Raisa Galea ·

By responding with art, beauty and civic concern to the chaotic and hostile environment of one of Malta’s most urbanised towns, Nimxu Mixja achieved the impossible. Even if for a brief moment, it reclaimed space from car dominance for pedestrians.

Tagged With: activism, art, Environment

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