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Fitness and Its Discontents: The Pursuit of the High-Status Body as Therapy. Part 2.

March 14, 2020 · David Vella ·

We live in a culture that tends to define the self in accordance to the status of its body and the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle. The corporal self-identity of contemporary times frequently goes under the name of ‘fitness’. It is a measure of aptitude for life in consumer culture and a service economy.

Tagged With: capitalism, consumerism, fitness

On Violence against Women or Why You Should Stop Asking “What about Men?”

March 8, 2020 · Liza Caruana-Finkel ·

Whenever violence against women is discussed, someone inevitably asks, “but what about men?” This ‘whataboutery’ is usually directed solely towards those who speak out on typically women’s issues and ironically proves the importance of focusing on this particular form of violence.

Tagged With: democracy, gender equality, International Women's Day, violence against women

MeTooEP: Rooting Out Sexual Harassment in the European Parliament

March 4, 2020 · Beatrice White ·

The political sphere has also been a focal point of sexual harassment allegations, and in the European Parliament, a group of young feminists are determined to fight back.

Tagged With: #MeToo, feminism, gender equality

Fitness and Its Discontents: The Pursuit of the High-Status Body as Therapy. Part 1.

February 29, 2020 · David Vella ·

We live in a culture that tends to define the self in accordance to the status of its body and the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle. The corporal self-identity of contemporary times frequently goes under the name of ‘fitness’. It is a measure of aptitude for life in consumer culture and a service economy.

Tagged With: capitalism, consumerism, fitness

Eyes on the Street: the Spectacle of Urban Life

February 13, 2020 · Rachael Scicluna ·

In the 19th century, new social practices, such as the promenading up and down the streets, mainly by men, reflected a new economic reality. Streets proved to be the right passages as architectural commodities for a capitalist economy rooted in visualism. The body became an artefact of display, which demanded the gaze of the onlooker.

Tagged With: capitalism, sexuality, urban planning

‘Invictus’: Joseph Muscat’s ‘Glorious’ Exit and Maltese National Pride

January 14, 2020 · Raisa Galea ·

In spite of the unprecedented political crisis, Joseph Muscat remained what a tattoo on his right bicep purportedly states: Invictus. He resigned on his own terms—bizarre outcome, considering the severity of the allegations implicating him in the Caruana Galizia murder cover up. We cannot fully comprehend it without finding out what sustained his baffling popularity.

Tagged With: Daphne Caruana Galizia, democracy, Joseph Muscat, national identity, nationalism

Larinġa Mekkanika: A Play for Gen Z and Valletta 2019

December 21, 2019 · Maria Theuma ·

Staged at the Valletta Campus Theatre, at a time when so much social and political turmoil was happening in Malta’s capital city, Larinġa Mekkanika found its hyperbolic tone caught up in an unholy juxtaposition of sorts, a feverish dream, something banal that felt deeply wrong.

Tagged With: democracy, theatre

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