Girl Dinner has become a part of something bigger: a meta-narrative of niche TikTok microtrends that all seem to me to be sinister prophecies of the failure of feminism. There’s Girl Dinner, Girl Math, Coquette trends, all lead by Your Honour She Is Literally Just A Girl. Feminism has deceived us. Nobody takes its emancipatory promise seriously anymore.

Frank Herbert dedicates his work “to the people whose labours go beyond ideas into the realm of ‘real materials’ — to the dry-land ecologists wherever they may be, in whatever time they work, this effort at prediction is dedicated in humility and admiration.” The creators of Dune: Part Two remain oblivious to this fact.

June 2023

A horseshoe of modernist architecture emerges from the desert right at the feet of the Atlas Mountains. Its white, Le Corbusier houses tilt towards the Atlantic. Its location on the very far Western corner of North Africa caused empires to fight over it for centuries. But its turbulent history as an important trading harbour now lays in ruins. The earthquakes had erased the ancient city, and Agadir, as we know it, was entirely rebuilt in the 30s and the 60s. In the 30s, it was redesigned by the

Published in Phi Magazine The Silence Issue.

Two months into the War in Ukraine, the Polish border looks like an international fest with NGOs from all across the globe setting up stands to deliver humanitarian aid. Russian and English are heard on the streets of Warsaw like they never were before, Ukrainian folk songs loudly play in community centres. The February Russian invasion has undeniably changed Europe in various ways, but its effects are felt ever

What is European identity? Is it the dizziness of its glory and revolutions? Is it the ruins of Ancient Empires? Or is it the resilience of the European community in battling one crisis after another? For all the talk about European identity we hear in recent years, there is little understanding of what it actually means.

Originally published in the "Scope of Things" Phi Magazine and Res Publica collaborative issue.

Since Jean-François Lyotard proclaimed the fall of grand narratives in 1979, humanity has been faced with a challenge to find meaning. For a while, scientific advancements had given us hope that reason and science are the guiding principles of our contemporary condition. We applied mathematical models in politics and economics to predict and measure social forces. But we soon found that the scientific method had its faults too. Quantum phy

There is nothing as powerful in making the viewer realise the atrocity and the suffering of war, as an image. Statistics are too dehumanising, words leave too much to the imagination, but photography has the rare power of being apparently objective. However, looking at documented conflicts has been criticised by several post-modernist thinkers (such as Jean Baudillard) as being passive. In the contemporary world of social media, we are faced with images of horror more than we have ever been befo