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The Commercialisation of Rebellion: 
How Basquiat’s Art Became a Product


In his seminal work, Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher highlights how counter-culture and anti-establishment movements are almost always absorbed and neutralised in the current socio-economic models of the West.

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Why listen?


Perhaps a question we rarely ask ourselves, yet an important one nonetheless.

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Solivagant


Troubling times never last;

Lessons are learned

as they become the past.

Though antiquated

and strange, it may seem –

Life without pain

would be merely a dream.

Truth Social’s Biggest Lie: The Truth


“Free speech is back!” said the President in his joint address to Congress. Except it isn’t, as I ironically found out after my Truth Social account was banned after just an hour.

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Art and the Artist: Are They Inseparable?

As an ardent Kanye West fan, I’ve wrestled with this question more than most. From his 2005 declaration, ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people,’ which challenged political injustices, to his later, widely criticised, anti-Semitic remarks, Kanye’s music still resonates with me. Am I wrong for this? Is it ever possible to separate the art from the artist? And if so, should we?

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Grandeur
I made it this far,
How hard can it be.

To succeed as a man, as effortless as me?

Time ticks, trickles tonight,
Waiting patiently, soon to take flight.

Sometimes


Sometimes,

I feel happy but cannot smile,

I feel sad but cannot frown,

I hear birds singing, but they make so sound,

My mind is in the sky and cannot be found.

Sometimes,

I see flowers that have failed to grow,

A kiss, but with it no warmth,

I feel stars, yet they cannot be touched,

I long for a hug, to be held, to be clutched.

Though sometimes,

Embers burn inside,

I feel content merry and jocular,

Time begins to pick up its stride,

A friend, a lover, someone by your side.

I feel we are the same,

Do you feel these things too?

The love, the pain,

Or is this taboo?