the UCL IAS Review
MALLIKA SEKHAR
What language do the red and white blood cells in our bodies speak? The manga turned anime, Cells at Work! and Cells at Work! Code Black, features anthropomorphised cells of the human body and might give us a clue.
JINZHAO KAN
What does language convey, and what does it accomplish? An analysis of the clinical dialogue in Sarah Kane’s play 4.48 Psychosis and the reversal of its language between psychiatrist and patient.
ISHAN TRIPATHI
Can we imagine scholarly discourse without the footnote? Maybe not. But what if the footnote as a language has failed and in its place appears… the internet meme?
FLICK KEMP
How can we ensure that libraries are not just keepers of knowledge, past and present, but a place where futures are nurtured? An exploration of the potential that libraries hold, deny and could have.
NELLI SHKARUPINA
What role did the manifesto play in architect Bernard Tschumi’s work? And what role did his work play in the development of the (architectural) manifesto?
MARILYN ALLEN
What happens when we collaborate with a non-human on the creation of poetry?
DANY JACOBS
How do you teach French in a country where French toast is more popular than French? A reflection on the decay of multilingualism.
BART KUIPERS
In an effort to develop a universal language that extraterrestial life forms could understand, it is suggested that we need to put ourselves in their position. We need to become aliens.
VERÓNICA POSADA ÁLVAREZ
Una reflexión poética sobre la migración y la diáspora latinoamericana en Londres, que entrelaza el viaje personal, los sueños y el trabajo de archivo de la autora.
VERÓNICA POSADA ÁLVAREZ
A poetic reflection on migration and the Latin American diaspora in London that interweaves the author’s personal journey, dreams, and archival work.
EMILE BADARIN
Using Palastine as a case study, this book examines how recognition politics operate to legitimise long-standing colonial power structures.
SABA ZAVAREI
What does exile do to your memories of home? And what happens to these memories when your home is attacked? Do they persist or do they turn into rubble?
SOUL MILES
How can we identify Eugenics in its contemporary guises and disguises? A critical look at Eugenics as a ‘design project’.
SELENA DALY
Over 300,000 Italian men returned to Italy from abroad during World War I to perform their conscripted military service. What happened to them following their arrival and once the war had ended?
KELECHI ANUCHA
What would it mean to measure the environmental crisis and its impacts qualitatively, taking into account the experience of breathing?
MAJA & REUBEN FOWKES
A special issue of journal ARTMargins that investigates the records of the transformation of nature in socialist art history.