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  • Run or Don’t Run: The Modern Age Capitalistic Dilemma

    Run or Don’t Run: The Modern Age Capitalistic Dilemma

    February 7, 2026
    by Maia Popa

    Time doesn’t make money. Money makes time. We have not been living in the present moment for a long time now. Humanity is constantly drawn out of its current state, into a hyperreality governed by the screens in our pockets, a consciousness displaced into someone else’s life, another country’s environment. We spend hours mindlessly scrolling,…

    Read more: Run or Don’t Run: The Modern Age Capitalistic Dilemma
  • January Newsletter

    February 4, 2026
    by Newsletter

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  • Fascism, Eugenics and The Martian Frontier: Must We Burn Edgar Rice Burroughs?

    Fascism, Eugenics and The Martian Frontier: Must We Burn Edgar Rice Burroughs?

    January 24, 2026
    by Victor Keyser

    The streets of Milan were littered with empty bullet shells and concrete rubble. Out of a desolate street came strolling an American soldier. He was chewing gum and carried a comic book in the back pocket of his military uniform. Sitting down next to an Italian boy amid the ruins of a Europe that was…

    Read more: Fascism, Eugenics and The Martian Frontier: Must We Burn Edgar Rice Burroughs?
  • Reflecting Through Super-Sonic Jazz Jam ’25: The High’s and the Low’s

    Reflecting Through Super-Sonic Jazz Jam ’25: The High’s and the Low’s

    January 17, 2026
    by Haeyeon Jang

    When I had the opportunity to have a couple of sessions with two pop producers a few months back, a conversation we had made me notice a recurring pattern among producers and musicians without conservatory education. They described the conservatory as over-rated, failing to produce the best of the best musicians, and the students too…

    Read more: Reflecting Through Super-Sonic Jazz Jam ’25: The High’s and the Low’s
  • Your Ghost Orchid

    Your Ghost Orchid

    December 13, 2025
    by Capitu Sarah Nossiter

    “You are what you love, not what loves you.” The people, ideas and things you love are inherently a part of you, a reflection of your identity. The attraction you feel towards them, the qualities you admire in them, can be traced to the way your mind, heart and soul work. To love is to…

    Read more: Your Ghost Orchid
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