Month: December 2014

The Cereal Killer Cafe – Unboxing a Moral Panic by Alex Rhys Taylor

December 18, 2014

The arrival of the Cereal Killers cafe on Brick Lane set the world of pop-urbanist critique alight. Both social media and mainstream media (now infamously Channel 4 news) offered their own outraged analysis of young Irishman Gark Keery’s bold entrepreneurial venture. The particularly hot flame in this debate arises from the sheer number of combustibles … More The Cereal Killer Cafe – Unboxing a Moral Panic by Alex Rhys Taylor

Notes on glass, the frame, Paris, the work-of-art and I by Sian Gouldstone

December 12, 2014

          “Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see.” Barthes (1981:5) Barthes speaks of the nature of the photograph; to the manner through which its surface – its mode of presentation – is often ignored. When looking at photographs, we … More Notes on glass, the frame, Paris, the work-of-art and I by Sian Gouldstone