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.
EMILY BAKER
Taking Claude Lévi-Strauss’s memoir Tristes Tropiques as an example – what role do nonhuman entities play in fashioning narratives about the Amazon, whether produced by Indigenous people or ‘newcomers’?
LUCÍA STUBRIN
Bioart emerged in the 1990s and its artists generate a critical debate about biotechnology and life processes. This piece provides an overview of the bioart scene in Argentina.
ALICE VITTORIA
Walking occupies the everyday life of the Bayaka. It is a prerequisite for their well-being and one of the main sources of both cultural continuity and innovation. Forest walking is also an initiation into Bayaka relational ecology
MARIA PAULA PRATES
Mbyá-Guarani Indigenous women’s children are ever more likely to be born in hospitals and thus without the support of ambojau va’e (‘those who bathe’). What does this mean for the women’s reproductive and sexual health?
ROBERT PETITPAS
Delving into the Pewenche ecology of the pewen tree, this piece reflects on the problems and injustices of a colonial way of inhabiting the world and its related conservation approaches.
GIANFRANCO SELGAS
The period between 1890 to 1980 marked Venezuela’s insertion into the vortex of oil extraction. But the political and cultural discourses built around oil rendered invisible other cultures nurtured around the extraction of nature.
FÍACHA O’DOWDA
Many of the contemporary practices and ideas that underpin biodiversity conservation in Madagascar are imported and implemented from abroad. What does that mean for Indigenous’s practices?
ALEXANDRA BAYBUTT with CLEOPATRA GLITHERO
This video clip emphasises the often-sobering repetitiveness of email correspondence with public offices.