The West, FIFA and Us: We're all being hypocritical about the World Cup
Pro-migrant, anticolonial discourse has been weaponised to support Qatar’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup
1y ago
Mermaids aren’t real, and neither is race
Our current conceptualisation of race derives heavily from the last couple centuries of European imperialism.
2y ago
Declan Walsh's 'The Nine Lives of Pakistan': A journalist explains the country that banished him
In the middle of an Islamabad night, just before the Pakistan election of 2013, the Irish journalist Declan Walsh was visited by “angels”.
3y ago
An anarchist retelling of Tintin
The globetrotting hero-reporter, he of the blonde quiff and the plus four trousers, had many an adventure throughout a 46-year-long run under
3y ago
Revisiting the only book written by an Indian about the Indian soldiers of WWI
Tens of thousands of men sailed across the ocean to a land they’d never before heard the name of. They fought long and hard, in the world’s
4y ago
The Dead Can’t Dance
The death’s head is panther-stalking her through the party. Bodies washed in neon pink ebb and flow, sinking and rising from the shadows as light thrums.
5y ago
The trap of Re-Orientalism
“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” wrote Rudyard Kipling, a man with a silly name who only had a career because West met East and immediately mugged it, running off with wallet, shoes and pants. Through Kipling’s pen, the British
5y ago
February 9, 2017
ROME AND ITS MANY SEQUELS
The experiences of puberty strongly shape the adults we become. Let us talk about something that happened during the world's adolescence.
February 2, 2017
The Past is a Prison
Approaching his seventeenth birthday the boy known as Rubaiyat Karim committed an act that made him infamous. July 19, 2009. On that day the man known as Rubaiyat Karim was conceived.
January 26, 2017
Nothing Matters in Sherlock
The Sherlock Holmes stories are simple enough in subject matter: a detective, his friend, and the cases they solve and an arch-nemesis hovering in the background.
January 19, 2017
Unconventional Desires
The pentagram flashed an impossible colour thirteen times just as the scented candles at the edges of the star were snuffed out. The wizard sweated nervously. The vial of blood at the centre exploded with a strange purple light.
January 5, 2017
Age of Empires 2: Evergreen, not Forgotten
The fourth expansion pack for Age of Empires 2, Rise of the Rajas, was released on December 19, 2016 as downloadable content.
December 29, 2016
2016 was THE worst. Now what?
The end of the world is a pretty commonplace incident.
December 22, 2016
Commandos and Desperados in Feudal Japan
In Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, Mimimi Productions has married the gameplay of Commandos with intrigues and conflicts of Edo Japan.
December 22, 2016
It's Time to Make Peace with Spiders
First of all, let's just all have the bravery to be honest about this: spiders are super-scary and would probably have never existed in an ideal universe.
June 23, 2016
Racists do stupid things that ruin the world
Racism is far from dead, but we have come a long way. Plenty still living remember when racial discrimination wasn't an illicit practice but explicit state policy...
June 9, 2016
The Challenge of Realistic Melee Combat in Games
The games industry is becoming increasingly diverse and the niches the so-called AAA developers ignore are being filled by outsiders
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