FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 – Keep the Cat Free – ISSUE 1697 Felix

The Student Newspaper of Imperial College London

NEWS

Our final issue round-up of the year at Imperial

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MUSIC

Going electric: the history of musical side- steps PAGE 21

SEX

Felix Sex Survey – the results are in

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ARTS

Frida Kahlo at the V&A: from icon to caricature? PAGE 47 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1697

EDITORIAL NEWS [email protected] CONTENTS EDITORIAL 2 This is the end… Death of Cardiff lecturer highlights teaching workload NEWS 3-5 s – Fe o here we are: Fyle lix E together pages. Felix gave The Felix Team NEWS was struggling to create with family. ed dit POLITICS 6-7 the final issue. Fr or me a home. timetables for university Cardiff University, who It’s been a week I went into this year Editor-in-Chief Fred Fyles within his allocated time- described Dr Anderson as of lasts: last time thinking I was prepared Fred Fyles Editor-in-Chief frame, and would often “an excellent teacher with COMMENT 8-11 • Sasking section editors for anything that could Deputy Editor do it in his own time. Mr the rare ability to enthuse SCIENCE 12-17 how many pages they’ll be thrown at me. With Joanna Wormald Vallis said Dr Anderson the large numbers of need; getting the last tube five years of experience, • Dr Malcolm Anderson, had “complained to students who attended his home after working late I thought I had a good News Editor who fell to his death, management a number lectures,” said they would TECH 18 Joanna Wormald on the Sex Survey; and grip on what the job • was struggling with of times about the allo- be reviewing the support now this, my last ever would entail. But I soon Politics Editors workloads. Academics cation,” but “received the available to staff. MUSIC 19-24 editorial. Serving as Felix came to realise that, no Avirup Banerjee same response year after The news led a number Divyen Vanniasegaram have compared Editor over the past year matter how much time I’d • year.” of academics to refer to the FILM 25 has been an incredible spent with Felix, nothing Comment Editors the case to that of Mr Vallis also said Dr case of Stefan Grimm, a privilege. To say I’ve could have prepared me Alan Perfect Professor Stefan Anderson had been asked professor of toxicology at enjoyed every minute of for the weekly rush to Charlie Titmuss to mark 418 examination Imperial College London GAMES 26 • Grimm at Imperial. it would be untrue, but get the paper out. What Science Editor papers over a 20-day who took his own life SEX SURVEY 27-34 it has included moments completely blindsided Rosie Dutt period. in 2014. A posthumous that have been so reward- me, however, wasn’t the • lecturer at Car- According to Wale- email sent by Professor Tech Editor ARTS 39-47 ing they outweigh any work or the writing: it was Tom Mrazek diff University sOnline, Dr Anderson Grimm to staff within Im- minor inconveniences or the people. We started • who fell to left behind a note saying perial cited the pressure frustrations. into student halls where issue together without the year with very few Arts Editors his death had his workload had finally he was under to bring in BOOKS 49-52 To be coming to the you don’t know anyone; a working office. I also people remaining, and Indira Mallik Abeen struggling with an gotten to him. Police more grant money, with JJ Cheng end of this journey is bit- becoming used to a class recall meeting with my rapidly had to rebuild Adam Gellatly increasing workload, an sources said there were an email from his line Dr Anderson was a lecturer at the Cardiff University's Business School// Flickr/Jeremy TRAVEL 53-55 tersweet. But – in classic size of over 200; suddenly fellow Arts Editor, Kamil, the editorial team. It was • inquest heard last week. emails on Dr Anderson’s manager saying he was Segrott Felix style – this sense of feeling like a very small before term started, to talk an experiment – I didn’t Books Editors Dr Malcolm Anderson, work computer referring “struggling to fulfil the JJ Cheng C&S 57 melancholy is tempered minnow in an enormous about all our plans for the know whether or not Alice Peberdy who was a lecturer in to “work expectations not metrics of a Professorial death, although a College staff in higher education If you have been af- by a mood of urgency and ocean – they all took year; we went to the Tate everything would work • accounting at Cardiff being manageable.” post at Imperial College”, spokesperson told Felix institutions. Two studies, fected by anything in this HANGMAN 58-59 slight madness. You may some getting used to. Britain’s exhibition of the out. But it did. The new Music Editors University’s Business Dr Anderson’s wife, since he was unable to at the time that “given the released earlier this article, please consider Andy Djaba notice that this week’s During the first couple late works of JMW Turner, friendships I have made Adrian LaMoury School, as well as a Diane, with whom he had bring in £200,000 per complex nature of suicide, year, highlighted what speaking to your personal PUZZLES 60-61 Felix is slightly heavier of years, it was writing and I promptly had a nose- this year, and the previous Henry Eshbaugh personal tutor, fell to his three daughters, described annum in a programme it would be impossible Times Higher Education tutor, senior tutor, ICU than usual – given it was for Felix that gave me bleed – perhaps from the ones that have deepened, • death on the morning of her husband as someone grant. to answer with certainty described as “a crisis of Advice Centre, or the the last week, section some sense of regularity sheer intensity of Turner’s have been the most Film Editors the 19th February 2018. who “would always give The coroner into whether any action taken overwork and poor mental Imperial Counselling SPORTS 63 Mikhail Demtchenko editors and contributors – writing mainly for the colours. Over that year valuable part of the whole Ashley Luckyram Coroner Andrew Barkley the very best to everything Professor Grimm’s case by the College could have health in academia.” In Service. You can also pulled out all the stops, Arts section, I would take Kamil and I would build experience. I know, now, Mark Aduol later recorded a verdict of that he did, but was described the death as resulted in a different one study, postgraduate phone the Samaritans delivering to you a a break from lectures, and up relationships with that after the last issue has Michael Purdy suicide. silently struggling.” She “needless.” outcome.” students were found to (116 123) or London • 64-page behemoth of an head out to exhibitions all London galleries and gone to print, and I have TV Editor In a statement for the said his commute was an Imperial completed The case comes amid be more than six times Nightline (02076310101) Felix Office issue, the longest issue over this beautiful city. theatres, pumping out an left this university, what I Andrew Melville inquest into the death, 120-mile round trip, and an internal review of increasing concern more likely to experience for confidential emotional Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road we’ve put out all year. We Felix gave me an escape. insane amount of content. will remember most isn’t • his colleague Louis his workload meant he staff policies following over the workload of anxiety or depression than support. London, SW7 2BB sincerely hope you enjoy It wasn’t until my It’s a time I remember the articles we published, Games Editor Vallis said Dr Anderson was unable to spend time Professor Grimm’s academic and support the general population. Saad Ahmed Tel: 020 79548072 it, and have enjoyed the third year that I actually incredibly fondly, and or the change we helped • Email: [email protected] previous 28 issues we’ve got involved with the the Arts section still enact, but the people I Food Editors put out since September. editorial team, joining holds a special place have met, and the expe- Alice Davage felixonline.co.uk Andrada Balmez @feliximperial Felix has been many as an Arts Editor. It in my heart. The Felix riences we have all had • UCU calls on withheld salaries to fund bursaries Printed by Mortons Media things to me during my was a hugely exciting Office became a refuge together. Words cannot Travel Editor Group, Boston Road, time here at Imperial. I time for me – I can still for me – I would look express how grateful I Edita Pileckyte Horncastle, Lincolnshire • think, like most students, remember meeting with forward each Wednesday am to everyone who has Puzzles Editor NEWS make withheld salaries or difficult to administer. to the management that The Imperial Bursary would leave members Registered Newspaper in all honesty, my intro- the then-Editor Philippa to spending my after- contributed to creating the Hamish Beck available to students Last week the College we strongly believe that provides support to Home £10,000 worse off each ISSN 1040-0711 duction to university life for the first time, as she noons there, chatting with paper this year. Felix has, • Fred Fyles who faced a cut in their told Felix withheld sal- this money should only undergraduate students year. Copyright (c) Felix 2017 was difficult. Moving tried to put the freshers’ other editors, and putting now, given me a family. Sports Editor Editor-in-Chief student bursaries. aries had “been retained be used for the direct with an annual household Last week Felix re- Imraj Singh • In an email sent to by the relevant academic benefit of students and not income of up to £60,000, vealed Russell Group uni- Head Photographer Louise Lindsay, Director departments to support retained by departments.” on a sliding scale. It is versities have withheld £8 Joseph O'Connell-Danes Imperial College UCU of Human Resources and their efforts to mitigate An analysis carried out available to students million in salaries, with • have written to the Felix is recruiting! CF Photographer Organisational Change, the impact of strikes.” by members of Imperial throughout their degree – further deductions ex- Fahdi Kanavati College asking for earlier this week, Imperial Imperial College College Union last year not including repeat years pected in the near future. • withheld salaries to be College UCU said they UCU said this response found students starting – and may be revised each Imperial have withheld Team Photograph had requested “on many was “an unacceptable in 2015 from qualifying year. just under £280,000 from Mingke Pan used to make up for • occasions” that money justification,” and called middle-income brackets Universities across the staff in March and April, Cover Photograph bursary shortfall. deducted from the salaries for the money to be made would receive substan- country have withheld with the number likely to Tom Mrazek of staff taking part in this available to students from tially less bursary, as salaries from academic increase in the future. A • Copy Editors he Imperial year’s industrial action the 2015/16 intake who the College shifted to and support staff who number of other univer- Alex Adler College London go towards the Student had lost out on provision a new system. Union took part in the UCU sities have ring-fenced Ash Pattar branch of the Hardship Fund. of bursaries. Council voted in favour strike earlier this year. the withheld money for We want you – yes, you! We’re looking for writers, photographers, editors, illustrators, reporters, Astrid Zong Universities They went on to say Dr Michael McGarvey, of a motion to lobby the The industrial action was student support services. Selin Olenik Rhidian Thomas Tand College Union they were told by College President of Imperial College to make addition- organised in response to computer experts and grammar nerds to join our team. No experience needed – we’ll teach you Ezgi Ozyilkan (UCU) has called on earlier this month this College UCU, said the al funding available to proposed changes to pen- everything you need to know. If you’re interested, send us an email on [email protected] Myles Lee senior management to would not be possible and/ proposal “made it clear affected students. sions, which UCU argued Hari Choudhury 2 Gillian Lee 3 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1697

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With the last paper of the academic year, Editor-in-Chief College has chosen to – indirectly, through of collaborating with the staggering that anyone in creased demand TEF. devote its surplus to build- investment portfolios Nigerian government in College thinks it appro- Three new metrics Fred Fyles and Deputy Editor Joanna Wormald check ings rather than to staff.” – nearly £9 million in the torture and execution priate for a university – a As exam season kicked have been introduced On top of this, a de- the fossil fuel industry, of activists, as well as charity even – to give so in, Felix revealed the huge alongside the original out some of the most important stories from the past manding work culture and £3.1 million in the crimes against humanity. much money to the arms pressures the College student satisfaction (from means Imperial staff work arms industry. A number Imperial also had and extraction industries. Counselling Service is National Student Survey academic year. beyond government-set £650,000 in Philip Even College’s commit- being put under. The data), number of students time limits and provide Morris, £400,000 in ment to avoid investing in number of students regis- completing their course the equivalent of two days “The College Imperial Brands, and tobacco seems paper-thin, tering for counselling has (rather than the number NEWS and students.” final pension pot. Fourteen per week without pay. over £370,000 indirectly now that it’s clear that it increased by over 80% of students dropping out), The changes, which days of escalating strike The joint trade unions was revealed invested in Reynolds has millions invested in it since 2012/13, while the and graduate outcomes six Fred Fyles students and staff were action took place over have set out a series of American, some of the through third-party funds; sessions on offer have months after leaving uni- Editor-in-Chief not consulted on, left a four weeks earlier this demands, including a to have largest tobacco companies so much for ‘smoke-free been unable to keep up. versity. These now form Joanna Wormald number very upset. One year. A further fourteen 7.5% pay rise for staff. – £3.5 million in the world. These invest- Imperial’.” – FF The result is a waiting an “initial hypothesis” Deputy Editor academic told Felix the days of strikes planned to JW ments were made through time which now stands at which assessors modify changes were “outra- disrupt end-of-year exams indirectly investment funds, some Debates continue seven weeks on average, by considering supple- geous”, while another were narrowly averted of which the College had over high pay and ex- with some students re- mentary metrics as part SCR remove cooked said “it sounds like [when as the University and Imperial revealed to invested been investing in since penses among senior porting waiting up to 15 of a “holistic judgment”. breakfast as campus the College talk about] College Union, represent- have large invest- at least 2013. Imperial management weeks. To further complicate services are cut ‘reducing their cost’, it’s ing teaching and support ments in tobacco and in tobacco, currently has 29 research The Counselling matters, a flag system has really coming out of our staff, agreed to a deal fossil fuels through funds groups working on cancer While the majority of Service currently employs been introduced. The TEF At the end of July last pocket.” which will maintain the prevention, detection, and Imperial employees are about seven full time is now simultaneously so year, the Senior Common Around three months current pension scheme An investigation by used since at treatment. experiencing real-term equivalents to serve a complicated that assessors Room served their last after the changes came until at least April 2019. February saw strikes hit over 60 universities // Joseph O'Connell-Danes Felix into the endowment Rhidian Thomas, Impe- pay cuts, senior staff are student body of 18,000. without a background in cooked breakfast to into effect, Imperial Students have been told fund of Imperial revealed least 2013” rial College Union’s Ethics collectively pocketing Rosie Summerhayes, advanced data handling students and staff, as College Union launched exams will not include ring-fenced this money what happened during and recommended having the College had signifi- and Environment Officer, more than their counter- head of the Counselling require extra training, they made wide-ranging a survey, asking staff and content missed as a result for student support and the evening of the assault. the perpetrator attend a cant direct and indirect in- told Felix: “I’d like to parts at any other Russell Service, told Felix their yet “simple and easy for changes to campus servic- students about campus of the strikes. A class services. She also went for periods consent workshop, as vestments in the tobacco, of these investments congratulate Imperial on Group university. budget had been frozen for students to understand”. es. As well as removing services and opening action lawsuit has been Universities, including of up to six weeks without well as banning him from fossil fuel, and weapons were direct investments, succeeding in bringing In 2017, the College the past two years, despite Trials are also under- the cooked breakfast hours. The Union has not launched by legal firm Imperial, supported the any contact from the licensed Union premises. industries. including £1.5 million in together a comprehensive spent £5.6 million on the the College making nearly way for subject-level option, they increased reported on the results of Assersons on behalf of switch to a defined con- Union or College. They did not recommend In total, as of Septem- Royal Dutch Shell, the 7th selection of some of the salaries of 20 ‘key man- £120 million in surplus ratings, which are prices across all outlets, the survey. – FF students seeking a refund tribution scheme (where removing him as society ber 2017, the College was largest producer of oil and most ethically dubious agement personnel’. This last year. designed to account for reviewed portion sizes, of their tuition fees. The pension value is linked to president. – FF investing £3.5 million gas worldwide, who had companies around, all translates to an average The increased wait varying quality within and reduced opening case involves more than the stock market), claim- “Helen said in the tobacco industry previously been accused in one portfolio. It’s pay packet of £280,000 times have had a knock- universities. Documents hours of food outlets. Strikes hit Imperial 5,000 students, who could ing the current University Pay falling in real each – an 8% rise on the on impact on student-fac- released by the Depart- The changes, which amid pension dispute receive several hundred Superannuation Scheme the Union's terms for Imperial previous year’s figures. ing staff members, who ment for Education state were made by Campus pounds each. had a £7.5 billion deficit staff 410 members of staff are are now having to spend subject-level TEF awards Services, a branch of More than 60 univer- Last week, Felix and was “not likely to be handling of paid more than £100,000. more time than they will provide students the College, were made sities were disrupted by revealed Imperial has so sustainable”. – JW her sexual Wages are decreasing Imperial president usually would speaking to with “more granular and “where reinvestment can strikes as staff protested far withheld just under in real-terms for most Alice Gast has the second students who are finding informative information”. demonstrably be made against proposed changes £280,000 from staff Union criticised over assault left Imperial staff while large highest salary of Russell things difficult. Profes- While these changes to the wider benefit of to their pensions which involved in the strike. handling of sexual as- sums are being spent on Group vice-chancellors sor Simone Buitendijk, help to allay some con- the community, against a could have seen lecturers Unlike other universi- sault case her suicidal at the salaries of senior staff and is paid £433,000 Vice-Provost (Education), cerns raised by critics minimal impact on staff lose up to 60% of their ties, Imperial has not and the College’s property (beaten only by the Uni- told Felix: “Our invest- over the years, there are In first term, Felix times” portfolio. versity of Birmingham’s ment in student coun- still worries that the TEF reported on the case of an Below-inflation pay David Eastwood, who selling will be increased will be used to increase alumna, Helen, who had rises have left staff facing takes home £439,000). significantly in the next tuition fees. been sexually assaulted Helen, who has a average salary decreases On top of her salary, financial year.” – FF Last year prime minister by a current student when severe, long-term mental of 1.1% each year since Professor Gast claimed Theresa May announced returning to Imperial for health condition, requir- 2005, according to a pay nearly £44,000 in ex- fees would be frozen at an event. The assault took ing her to go to hospital claim published by the penses – more than the Teaching Excellence current levels until 2019, place on Union property. each week for treatment, Joint Higher Education median Imperial salary. Framework under- putting the kibosh on plans After reporting the case was left feeling suicidal Trade Union. Despite this, The figure is also sub- goes significantfor gold and silver-rated to the Union, the Union at times: “I was consumed College expenditure on stantially greater than the changes universities to be able to and College took seven with the case,” she told wages increased by just average Russell Group increase tuition fees in months to reach a conclu- Felix, “while nobody over 3% in 2016/17 due to vice-chancellor expenses The Teaching Excel- line with inflation. Since sion, during which time responsible for it seemed “an exceptional increase claim, which is under lence and Student Out- then, education secretary the accused had become to care, or even acknowl- in very highly paid staff”. £10,000. The majority of comes Framework (TEF) Damian Hinds has sug- president of a Union edge it. This made me feel At the same time, the Professor Gast’s claims has undergone significant gested universities charge society. my grip on reality was unions criticised Impe- were for international changes in its third year different fees to reflect During the investiga- slipping.” rial’s increasing capital travel, with the remainder (not least its rebranding). each subject’s value to tion, Helen was passed When the Union expenditure. Referring split between taxis, gifts, Imperial still holds a society. Subject-level TEF between a number of reached their final deci- to the £1.42 billion spent and hospitality. – JW Gold award but this is awards may well facilitate staff members, and was sion, they concluded “on on property investments not directly comparable this. – JW repeatedly asked to balance of probabilities” since 2011, the joint Imperial tumbled down the ethical league tables, with Felix revealing missions of Counselling Service to the ratings issued in Imperial staff pay has been falling in real terms since 2015 // Imperial/Felix provide statements about Helen’s account was true, unions said: “Clearly, the pounds invested in the fossil fuel industry // Tom Mrazek struggling with in- this year’s iteration of the 4 5 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1697

POLITICS [email protected] POLITICS [email protected] Changing times... In defence of the Syrian Democratic Forces Politics writer Abhijay Sood thinks that the Imperial isn’t the place it used to be, but there is Politics Writer Juan Rubio Gorrochategui responds to an article earlier this year, which accused still more to be done. the Syrian Democratic Forces of war crimes and unethical acts.

POLITICS Felix itself played a cut staff salaries (in real POLITICS Erdogan-critical regional significant role, thanks in terms) or the SCR break- MP of the leftist party Abhijay Sood large part to the editorial fast (in very real terms) Juan Rubio Die Linke was recently Politics Writer team. Liberation officers to save money? Should Gorrochategui hit in the head and called have had regular columns, these “KMPs” be foisting Politics Writer a ‘traitor’ in Turkish by giving them a platform to wide scale changes to the an unknown man. Across mperial College isn’t discuss the oft-overlooked degree courses on reluc- the Atlantic, supporters the place it used to be. but important issues faced tant academics? When everal weeks of Erdogan became The student body is by the groups they rep- one quarter of all the ago, I wrote a infamous when they beat becoming less inward resent. During the UCU undergraduate students comment piece up protesters during the Ifocussed, less tolerant of dispute, it was easier to sign something, is it un- for this paper that last visit of the Turkish poor decision making on find news inFelix than the reasonable to expect some Sadvocated Western sup- dictator to Washington the part of the university, national press. Lastly and kind of formal response? port to the organization D.C. and less dismissive of perhaps most importantly, Is it acceptable that for known as SDF (Syrian things beyond the four Felix has challenged both years, some departments Democratic Forces), a walls of their degrees. We the Union and College haven’t had so much as group I described as: “an “Comparing have a way to go yet, but this year. Regarding the a common room? Should organization which has an the culture at our universi- former, Felix has detailed the foremost British ideology that combines the SDF to ISIS ty is starting to shift, and the poor handling of Science and Technology libertarian socialism, a look back over the last certain sensitive issues, institute invest its money gender equality, respect can only come year suggests progress is and more generally has in arms, cigarettes, and for ethnic minorities, secu- Geology students are as satisfied as Sade // Wikimedia from either being made. done a good job reporting fossil fuels? As students, larism and green politics”. Beginning with the on the decisions being we have a responsibility This article provoked the is a Turkish-backed militia control of the YPG, and soldiers, have retorted to the SDF advocate terrorist ignorance or elephant in the room: it’s made in our name and to ask these questions publication of a refutation that forms part of the wide the organisation promised this tactic to escape the acts against civilians in easy to overlook the fact on our behalf in Beit. On – we shouldn’t just be piece several issues later, array of forces Turkey has to investigate the matter, enemy’s fire. Not that Europe. According to the malice” that this year a strike at the latter, articles have spectators: there would be which accused me of been using in Rojava to reiterating their commit- it matters: according to news that is taken as an Imperial College actually detailed the university’s no university without us. spreading propaganda for wrestle control back from ment to universal human Amnesty International, evidence for this claim, achieved something, with vast assets, the significant a hateful terrorist organ- the SDF and its allies. If rights. They also ask for the Turkish army has a Kurdish group based in Believing that we university management pay and Brobdingnagian isation. As my ideology there were a group that external support in their indiscriminately fired at the diaspora, the Apoist should not intervene at Imperial and across expenses of senior uni- “When one could not be further from would like to portray the mission to maintain basic civilians fleeing Afrin, Youth Initiative, called for militarily in Syria is a the country being forced versity management, and that description, I would SDF as a tyrannical force, civil standards in both the killing up to 17 children violence against assets of completely legitimate to concede on proposed inequality at Imperial. quarter of all like to address the claims it would be them, so we war front and the areas in just a single incident. the Turkish government, position, one I happen to changes to staff pensions. All of this suggests that spouted in the response, if should consider the pos- where their control is Thus, it seems that sadly as well as the parties and hold. However, I will not Student involvement bol- the mood at Imperial is undergraduate only to stop a mischarac- sibility the video provided tenuous. In this, the YPG Article 48 is rendered organisations that, accord- accept falsehoods directed stered this, with students shifting, but there’s still students sign terisation of my position has been staged, as has have done more to tackle moot by the cruelty of ing to them, enable the against the only group that standing on the picket more to be done. First of by what seems an obvious been the case of many the problem of child Erdogan. violations of human rights is showing some com- lines, and over a hundred all, those of us who feel something, is it attempt of whitewashing footage pieces during soldiers in Syria than The piece also claims carried out by the present mitment to democracy, attending events in soli- these improvements are the atrocities of the Syrian the war. Nevertheless, any of the other warring the SDF have been Turkish government (i. e. tolerance of minorities, darity at the start and end important must work to unreasonable government. there is indeed a report parties, which have also blocking civilians from most European govern- and feminism. While I of the action. ensure what we have isn’t Four accusations are by Human Rights Watch been accused of using leaving Afrin. The spokes- ments). The group follows agree past intervention in Certain ‘progressive’ Imperial might look the same, but change is happening // Imperial College lost – that this year won’t to expect charged against the SDF. that denounces the use of underage individuals in man for the UN Secretary Abdüllah Öcalan, the Lybia and Iraq has been groups on campus, such just have been a flash in a formal Each of them would be child soldiers by the YPG, their armies. General is the source for long-time jailed founder a colossal disaster, that as the Labour Society In spite of the surprise ganising a talk by Akala, the pan. That means we terrible on their own: the backbone of the SDF. The second claim is this claim, as it is shown of the wide Kurdish leftist does not mean we have and IQ, enjoyed record “We must addition of the Wellbeing work on neurodivergence, have to actively engage in response.” the use of child female While very concerning, that the SDF dresses in the video linked by movement, but apart from to diplomatically support high membership this Representation Network improving accessibility representation, liberation, soldiers under the influ- the report also mentions their combatants with the author. However, the both taking inspiration either the criminal Syrian year. Divest Imperial, the engage in this year, rep engagement in Ethos, and fighting to and a student newspaper ence of drugs; dressing these incidents are far civilian clothes, which, as very spokesman admits from him, no links have government (which has campaign to get College across the university has improve the College’s to cover it all: supporting Things will only their militiamen as civil- from common in the explained in the article, the UN has not been able been found between the been known to use gas to take its money out of representation been relatively high, with bursary provision. Union things from the sidelines change if people who care ians; preventing civilians YPG and admits a tenet goes against Article 48 of to contact the local au- AYI and the SDF forces against its own citizens) toxic investments in fossil liberation reps campaigning for Council, the Union’s chief isn’t enough. More am- do something about it. It from leaving battle zones; policy of the organisation the Geneva Conventions, thorities of Afrin, which fighting in Syria. I want or the Islamist controlled fuel, and the Left Forum, better personal tutoring, decision-making body, bitiously, it means using seems we’re starting to, and supporting attacks in is refusing to use child blurring the line between implies that their source to state that I absolutely opposition (whose record a non-partisan political/ and a student a stronger counselling has also been largely this year as a foundation and I sincerely hope this Europe. The piece even soldiers. In addition, it civilians and soldiers. I of information is Turkey, condemn the actions of with human rights is campaign group, also service, and agreeing with well attended this year, – channelling what we’ve trend continues in the next compares them to ISIS, should be noted that as have only been able to as no other parties where this group against civil- shaky at best). That is enjoyed high engage- newspaper to staff on how the curricu- and while the contentious achieved into productively academic year. which, in my opinion, is recent as 2014, ISIS was find a single instance of fighting in the area. The ians and institutions of why I believe the best- ment this year. Some of lum review (in which all and often tedious nature challenging the university If any of this resonates an affirmation that can engaging into a genocidal this happening – precisely story was only reported Turkish origin, that have case scenario for Syria is these groups are coming cover it all” the content in every course of these meetings can be and refusing to accept at with you, and you want only be made from either campaign against the in the video provided by by organisms like the no blame whatsoever for a SDF-led government. together to form a united is up for change) will take off-putting, they are a face value what we’re told. to know what you can do ignorance or malice. Kurds, so, terrible as it the writer. I assume the Anadolu Agency, the the foreign policy of their Because being against ‘Action at Imperial,’ with place. Meanwhile the vast improvement from Does a university who to help, feel free to drop On child soldiers, is, some teenagers were SDF does not encourage propaganda arm of the country. Nonetheless, Western imperialism does the goal of making our from within the Union, liberation officers’ work the empty rooms and low pays its “key management me an email at abhijay. the source provided is a forced to fight to save their its forces to use civilian Turkish government. I Kurdish led groups are not not mean blindly support- university a slightly better with strong showings this year has included attendance which plagued personnel” almost £300k [email protected] YouTube video hosted by lives. The cases reported clothes, but probably in would like to see more the only ones increasing ing the worst satraps of place. from our Liberation a campaign for gender past years. each, with more than a channel owned by the happened under units that the chaos of the war some solid evidence. the tension among the the Middle East. There are even positives Officers and student reps. neutral bathrooms, or- In all of these cases, £100m in surplus need to Al-Hamza Division. This were not under the central units, or even individual Finally, it is claimed diasporas. In Germany, an 6 7 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1697

COMMENT [email protected] COMMENT [email protected] Abandoná a tu Diego Rivera This year Union Council has been completely Following a break-up, one Comment Writer looks back on their unhealthy, emotionally- toxic – it’s time for change manipulative relationship, and advises others on what to do if they’re in the same position. An anonymous student talks about how the machinations of various groups on the Council

COMMENT Leave. There is nothing to are bad for all of us and will eventually tear it apart. lose. If you stay, you will Anonymous lose yourself. So, leave. Comment Writer I have no shame to say COMMENT together for the common this year it has grown factions have emerged, Every action and every achieve great things, I got out of it by being good of Imperial’s student toxic. Personal animosity which together account proposal is viewed almost if only we could work broken up with. That is Anonymous body – even if they often has been allowed to dictate for virtually the entirety of exclusively through the together, and have worked t the beginning okay. I still get to leave, I Comment Writer disagreed on details or the agenda; proposals the Union’s senior officer prism of which faction the to try to bring about of a relation- still get to grow, and I still didn’t get along particu- are voted down purely cohort, from Constituent individual is more closely that unanimity and find ship there is get to realise all the shit larly well. because of who proposed Union committees all associated with; no more common ground on diffi- passion, not that happened during the rom a particular them, without any con- the way up to the Officer does the Union’s senior cult issues. However, the Alove. Love is built upon relationship: specially all perspective, sideration of their merit. officer community accept working atmosphere has passion, but it doesn’t the red flags that existed, I Imperial College “This year the Hard-working volunteers – even begrudgingly – been so bad in the Union necessarily exist after noticed, and I ignored. Union is an are sniped at and openly “The Union positive steps proposed this year I have several passion. Some people are Forganisation which has atmosphere undermined in meetings, by those they don’t get times seriously considered is doomed mature and caring enough always been defined in the Union and partisan emails are along with personally. simply walking away. It to be able to build the “If I were to by negativity. After all, sent to society mailing to failure in Instead, flimsy excuses may be that this year has love, some are not: it is students wouldn’t be has grown lists – one described are cobbled together to been an aberration, a bad as simple as that. To love be described motivated to make things Union Council members everything make sure that ‘they’ bunch of people incapable someone, you must love better if they thought that completely as “people who care very don’t achieve anything. of working together. I sin- yourself first: you have as ‘fragile’ the things were already good little about students, and it does if its After all, isn’t it best that cerely hope so; the Union to know yourself, to be whole world enough. Usually, this neg- toxic” are using their seat on nothing at all happens, just is doomed to failure in sure of who you are and ativity is channelled into Council just as a stepping culture does so long as ‘the other side’ everything it does if its what you want in life. If would have to productivity; the drive to stone to more senior don’t get the credit…? culture does not improve. you are not self-aware, improve things has been This year, however, Union positions.” Worse not improve” I have always, through- Every single student with self-conscious, there is no be too” at the heart of virtually something has changed. statements have been out my time holding an elected role next year way you will be able to every positive change the Whereas previously the made in private. volunteering roles, been must do everything they love someone. Union has brought about atmosphere amongst This toxicity is not Trustees – who at times particularly optimistic, can to make sure that it I wrote this because I at Imperial. Volunteers senior Union officers has limited to one or two in the year have happily despite the Union’s never gets this bad again; am sure I am not alone. and sabbatical officers been fairly polite, if not prominent individuals. contributed to the ev- negativity. I have always to fail to do so is to doom “If you have a I want to make people have always worked exactly always friendly, Rather, two distinct er-worsening atmosphere. believed the Union could the Union. aware of my story, because partner, they I know this is happening to multiple people right do not exist now I feel if I had read to clean up something like this while Grumpy Bastard and the World Cup still in the relationship your mess: things could have been Frida Kahlo – Two Fridas (1939) // Flickr/cea + different; I would have they don’t been able to raise my head Grumpy Bastard is looking forward to the World Cup. Because they hate themselves. sorry, I am like this with ship. I realise now my mistakes, and I commit- sticker saying “fragile”. up and leave earlier, or be have to deal the people I love”. Let me first true love gives me ted one of the biggest If I were to be described able to make the red flags with selfish tell you something: that is more anger than good mistakes of my life so far: that way, then the whole real, and not just thoughts COMMENT four years, please contact way, only to eventually be such a propaganda coup. of one another. I guess if of this summer’s football not love. memories. It is not sad I gave myself away, com- world would have to be to ignore. the police, as you prob- defeated by some country Come to think of it, I I was from Manchester related phenomena. I just behaviour” I was the one cleaning to realise that; in fact, it pletely, entirely. Months described that way too. Do not let yourselves Grumpy Bastard ably have an advanced that no one has even heard can think of one other I’d want an early death expect to be greeted by up the mess. I do not makes me grow, it makes after, I found myself Accepting yourself is go. Do not forget about Comment Writer and untreatable form of of, like Belgium. I think regime, but I don’t think too. As two nations with the site of more England have the best background me more aware, so I do in pieces, from being the first step to take before yourselves. Do not lose Stockholm Syndrome as it’s entirely in keeping that the Nazis had to bribe a history of violence and flags, a surge in the By not knowing when it comes to rela- not repeat the mistake. trampled on numerous entering any relationship. yourselves. If the world well as chronic self-hate. with a people that loathes the Olympic officials then making it the rest membership of the EDL yourself or having your tionships: I grew up in an I have got nothing to times. You would think If you do, do not be with has the right to take elcome to If I’m honest, the self-hate itself so completely as to anywhere near as much of the world’s problem, I and more obnoxious dick- shit together you can environment of domestic lose by writing this; in I would realise what was someone who does not advantage of you, then the end of never really goes, you just vote the Tories into power as Putin had to give to think it will be really nice heads blowing Vuvuzelas easily drag those who violence, a totally abusive fact, it only makes me going on, but I did not. accept themselves. I did you have the right to take the year. learn to hate everyone else that we care desperately Sep Blatter and all of his to watch a proper confron- in public. All I want is for care for you down with relationship. Research reflect more about what Currently, I am slowly this and found myself in advantage of the world. Whether it’s until it feels normal. about a sport that we have friends. Something that tation between the pair of them to shut up so that I your mess: no one has to says I will now, when I did to myself. No, I do gluing the pieces back a cycle, trying to make You have the right to think Wyour first, second, third, I am really looking absolutely no hope of could be very interesting us. Let’s just hope that can continue to worry deal with your shit. If you finding a partner, try to fix not blame myself. I have together. Sometimes, a things better when there about yourself first. You or even fourth year at this forward to the summer winning. It almost brings could be when the rival the FSB stops threatening about the implications of have a partner, they do what was not fixed back no right to blame myself. piece falls and I have to was really nothing I could have the right to not give fine institution, I’m sure this ear, mostly because a patriotic tear to my eye. nationalist “firms” come the Mafia bosses and firm the Singapore conference not exist to clean up your then between my parents; I lost myself because I pick it up again, without do, because he was only a fuck. You have the right you have all arrived in the of the World Cup. As an Another wonderful into contact with one leaders long enough for in peace. That and shitting mess; they exist to support living in that environment gave everything I had. It really knowing if it will fighting against himself. If to be yourself. You should same manner: bedraggled, ashamed Englishperson, aspect of the World Cup another. Firms, in case you the true competition to myself over exam results. you and help you, but that made me stronger but would have been fine if stick properly this time. you feel like leaving, just remain yourself. You have exhausted, and with the it really is wonderful to this year is the country didn’t know are groups of take place. I mean it’s not Grumpy Bastard would does not mean that they also made me much more that everything had been It is a constant fight, a leave. If you feel like you to remain yourself – at the eyes of a survivor of an go through the same mas- in which it is held. Never young en taht associate like they do it the rest of like to wish everyone the have to deal with selfish tolerant to bullshit. given to me – from me to constant fight to redis- are losing yourself, leave. end of the day, you have artillery barrage on the ochistic expectation that before has an openly with different football the time. best for the summer, but behaviour on your part, I did not respect myself me – but, surprise: it was cover me. I want it to If it feels like it is not right, only got yourself. Western Font. For those maybe this year, the boys expansionist, homophobic clubs and occasionally Overall, I can’t say I is completely unable to. with you saying “I am so in my first real relation- not. You grow by making be clear: I do not need a it is because it is not right. of you still here beyond in white will make it all the regime landed itself with meet to beat the shit out have high expectations Goodbye dickheads. 8 9 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1697

COMMENT [email protected] COMMENT [email protected] Now is the time to provide a free service, and habits through advertis- be to make a change in data storage or com- sary risk to the health of think about exactly why therefore people have no ing. However, this power business model so as not puting resources to the our society, concentrating GDPR is a good start, but it’s up to us to protect your data are so valuable option but to accept the could be used to engineer to rely on personalized network. With the costs knowledge which could and what privacy these status quo to continue to society to various political advertising, which would to companies which base be used to influence companies really can use the Internet. How can ends. Legislation such resolve the conflict in their business on surveil- peoples’ behaviour in the our online privacy afford you. In particular, we know when you toggle as GDPR is like a soft interests between the lance for inevitable data hands of a small number consider what data are a button on a website measure against someone user and data holder. breaches justly imposed of organizations. collected about you and your choice is taken into with access to data and Large-scale voluntary by GDPR, this seems in- We need to take action, GDPR might have started prompting change, but the current practices of internet giants needs where they are stored. account? Do you know a lack of moral compass collaborations such as creasingly the more viable using our rights to make What information is col- in what form information crossing the Rubicon and Mozilla, Wikimedia, and option. sure the World Wide Web we need to take our privacy seriously. lected by your FitBit? Do about you is stored? turning the data against the open-source instant does no further harm you trust the government Furthermore, many the users’ best interests. messaging app Telegram to society. As a society of a country in whose apps and websites We should consider demonstrate these are “We need to we need to rethink the COMMENT elections you cannot vote continue to collect sensi- whether we need to scalable and sustainable business models behind Your Rights under GDPR to have power over sensi- tive information even if redesign the World Wide solutions. Alternatively, take action, the services we use , and Artur Donaldson tive information about you the most stringent privacy Web to make it physically users could pay a monthly redesign technology so Comment Writer – say, about your sexual settings are enabled. impossible for the data to subscription fee for access using our as to ensure that our data As stated on the EU commission’s orientation? This is where Many advertisers claim to be compromised. to services like apps or rights to cannot be breached in the website under GDPR you have the right to: GDPR comes in. Under offer the option to opt-out websites, which would first place by replacing ven if you didn’t GDPR, you are granted of personalized advertis- then be divided among the make sure the our current centralized read Kapilan’s several important rights. ing, but they make it as “The power of websites based on their systems. World Wide article in last 1. information about the processing of GDPR gives you the right difficult as possible to do information usage. This idea already As an individual, take week’s Felix to object to your personal this. There are exceptions. has immense traction – it Web does no the opportunity now to E(Felix 1696), the new your personal data; data being processed for MakeUseOf, for instance is precisely what Spotify find out what information collected General Data Protection 2. obtain access to the personal data marketing purposes. Fur- has a very clear interface does for music and Netflix further harm services collect about you. Regulation (GDPR) will thermore, it allows you which lets you toggle off by websites does for film. With exams over, why not not have escaped your held about you; to obtain access to these the collection of data. Finally, new decentral- to society” download your Facebook attention thanks to the personal data and to have However, most users could be used ized systems are currently data and play around with barrage of emails you will 3. ask for incorrect, inaccurate or them erased when they are who are sufficiently con- being developed by it if you are so inclined? have received over the incomplete personal data to be no longer needed. GDPR cerned use an adblocker to engineer the likes of MaidSAFE GDPR is a fine Furthermore you do not past few weeks. also gives some further which denies revenue and InterPlanetary achievement of European have to agree to the terms GDPR could have a corrected; rights and imposes heavy to the website. They do society to File System (IPFS) in politics. The combination and conditions if you are profound influence on the 4. request that personal data be erased penalties on organiza- so because it physically various which users contribute of clear guidelines, robust uncomfortable! Why not future of the World Wide when it’s no longer needed or if tions for not complying prevents the transmission computing resources to implementation, and a support efforts to make Web. Just as the Kyoto or if their user’s data is of sensitive information political aims” the network (like Bit genuine commitment is the web more open and try Protocol showed nations processing it is unlawful; breached (see left). so it gives them peace of Torrent) and are rewarded making already making a an alternative service such can come together to mind. As it stands today, using a blockchain-based real change to the attitude as DuckDuckGo instead take meaningful action 5. object to the processing of your the World Wide Web One solution is to treat currency. Such systems people and organizations of Google, or Telegram for the future of the personal data for marketing “GDPR cannot is designed so copious services such as social would reward the content have about privacy. The instead of WhatsApp. For natural world, GDPR amounts of sensitive media platforms as crucial creators (i.e. the users) centralization of the World more ideas on what you shows nations can come purposes or on grounds relating to protect information are collected infrastructure, and divide and those who contribute Wide Web is an unneces- can do see below. together for the future of your particular situation; personal in a manner not possible up their administration the cybernetic world. For 6. request the restriction of the two decades ago. We have among independent or- too long the World Wide information not had time to get an ganisations. This would Web, originally a decen- processing of your personal data in intuition for what risks we come at the advantage of What you can do? tralized means of freely specific cases; from being are taking when we use greater robustness as well sharing information, has the World Wide Web. as security, since there 1. Take a moment to review your privacy options over the become centralized and 7. receive your personal data in a collected, or As long as personal in- would no single point monopolized by a few Cambridge Analytica is the highest-profile case of data harvesting // Flickr/thoughtcat- formation is collected and of attack. An example is next few days in your apps. Get to know what information is machine-readable format and guarantee it key players. The risks are alog stored in form to which the social media network collected about you and if you can disable it. demonstrated by countless send it to another controller (‘data will not be a single organization has Diaspora as a replace- data breaches, the worst disclosed. only emerged in March, physical access , there is ment for Facebook, in 2. You don’t have to agree to the terms and conditions. Instead portability’); revealed this year being “The risks of From allegedly influ- three years after the compromised” always a risk that it will which you can establish of Google, OneDrive, and WhatsApp why not try DuckDuckGo the Cambridge Analytica encing the outcome of event. In the latter, Strava 8. request that decisions based on be abused, whether that be your own “pod” which files and MyFitnessPal data collection elections (as in the Cam- released a map of every due to hacking, interfer- manages data. Search (https://ddg.gg ), CryptPad (https://cryptpad.fr/ ), automated processing concerning cases. We each need to bridge Analytica case) single route uploaded to Organizations are ence from the government The primary issue or Telegram (https://telegram.org/) which offer equivalent realise what information have been to revealing the location their system – more than you or significantly affecting you taking GDPR seriously. of the country where the with this option is that of is being collected about of secret army bases in 3 trillion points. The map That barrage of emails and infrastructure is located, apathy amongst Internet services for free but do not collect unnecessary amounts demonstrated and based on your personal data are us, and to take action not Afghanistan (Strava, was sufficiently detailed popups may be annoying, or for the sake of making users. Social media have of personalized information. The website “PRISM Break” just as a society, but as by the November 2017) breaches to show routes uploaded made by natural persons, not only by but it is a sign that compa- a profit. an inherent tendency to individuals. Legislation of data or the plain incom- by US soldiers in Afghan- nies are concerned about As Francis Bacon monopolization, because (https://prism-break.org/en/all/) has further suggestions. countless computers. You also have the right alone is not enough to petence of centralized istan giving away sensi- not complying. said, knowledge is their value is increased 3. Take part in making a better web. Are you are interested in the ensure that our infor- services are having real tive information about the in this case to express your point of However, GDPR power. Information is by each user who joins mation is not used to do breaches, impacts on our society, layout of military bases. cannot protect personal knowledge. Knowledge the network. This makes effects of technology on society? Would like to be involved view and to contest the decision. harm – We must break including right now. In the former Furthermore, the monopo- information from being about how people behave the GDPR’s requirement in raising awareness? Do you have an interest in building a up monopolies, change the personal conversa- lization of global services collected or guarantee it gives power to influence for data portability rather business models from tions and information by corporations tied to the will not be compromised. future behaviour. Today weak, since there is no better Internet? If so, please contact artur.donaldson15@ Cambridge Companies found to be in breach of profit to non-profit, and of 87 million Facebook laws of individual nations Most websites on the the power of information equivalent service where imperial.ac.uk. redesign our technology Analytica” users was breached by a is harming competition GDPR are subject to a maximum fine of €20 World Wide Web today collected by websites and you can pack up bags and so it is physically impos- rogue questionnaire app and is inherently undem- rely on personalized apps is largely used to go if you are unhappy. sible for information to be without consent. This ocratic. million or 4% of global annual turn-over advertising in order to influence our shopping Another option would 10 11 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1697

SCIENCE [email protected] SCIENCE [email protected] Want to eat more healthily? Try putting on some Could platypus milk help beat antibiotic resistance? ambient music SCIENCE quently, this constitutes a two mammals on earth found in the guts of the new field for researchers which lay eggs. They young”, Newman reports, Marie Jones and scientist to explore! are considered mammals after observing the New research highlights the way what we listen to can influence what we eat, with relaxing music making us Science Writer The monotreme lac- because they feed their molecule killing bacteria tation protein (MLP) babies with milk similar such as Staphylococcus more likely to pick healthy options. includes a monomer to cows or humans. What aureus and Enterococcus n 2014, the World of twelve helices, two could then explain their faecalis. Health Organisation short β-strands, and a lactating proteins contain Even though the SCIENCE decreases while the warned the interna- deep fold which gives it such antibiotic? Like platypus milk could lead crunchiness of food is tional community the nickname “Shirley no other mammals, the to the creation of new an- Sarah Wong enriched. Other studies Iof the threat of antibiotic Temple,” after the famous monotremes are unable to tibiotic treatment against Science Writer have shown emotional resistance. Due to an ex- American child star breastfeed their progen- superbugs, drug discovery connection to background cessive use of antibiotics with curly hair from the iture; instead they sweat will take a long time before music can also affect how – mostly fed to food-pro- 1930s. This discovery milk, which is exposed patients are offered new hen choos- one evaluates wine. These ducing animals – bacteria reinforces Newman’s to the outside environ- pharmaceuticals. Thus, it ing our examples goes on, but no are able to develop re- belief that monotremes ment and thus has the is still crucial to counter food, our one has studied the effect sistance, which they then may be an unexploited susceptibility of possibly bacterial resistance to an- conscious of music on our choice of transmit to the next gener- What are those? // Wikimedia source for identification becoming contaminated. tibiotics by reducing the Wself is never in full control food until now. ation of bugs, who can no of new proteins, with This evolution of the massive use of antibiotics – I always let my cravings longer be killed by avail- research being carried paper published by Dr interesting properties such platypus may be its de- worldwide. The promise get the best of me. For in- able pharmaceuticals. As out on species which Janet Newman, from Aus- as antimicrobial activity. fensive response for a safe of innovative antibiotics stance, when I am sad I eat “Higher a result, diseases which previously had no funding tralia’s national science Dr Newman was not and sterile delivery system being developed against ice-cream; when I smell have been treatable for due to their insignificance. agency CSIRO, identifies overly surprised by this of milk in order to protect superbugs is a relief in a pizza, I will instantly music volume years, thanks to Alexander Australia’s wildlife is one the functional groups of as she states: “Platypus the young from possible the eventuality of a future want to eat one. But have Fleming’s discovery, are of the areas of interest. A this protein enabling it to are such weird animals infection. The particu- ‘post-antibiotics era,’ but you ever considered how can elicit once again responsible for protein in platypus milk combat superbugs. that it would make sense lar fold of the protein should not be taken for our hearing can impact on excitement, many deaths – killing ap- was found to have antibac- As indicated by crys- for them to have weird explains its “antibacterial granted, as research is still food choices? proximately 5000 people terial properties by a team tallisation, the molecule biochemistry”. properties against some of required to understand In London, there are leading us in the UK each year. of Australian scientists is unique, and presents no Ornithorhynchus the nastier bugs you find the protein’s interactions approximately 39,000 In this critical situation, from Deakin University, similarity with any other anatinus and echidnas in the environment but before it can be commer- food service establish- to choose hope arises from new Victoria, in 2010. A recent known protein. Conse- are indeed the only not against some bacteria cialised as a treatment. ments. In order to compete with other restaurants, unhealthy store managers will use food” Just imagine that nice muzak being pumped out // CC different sensory cues to lure us into consuming effect on our emotional designing menus for a snack aisle. Otherwise, an optimal music volume. Connect with Conservation: how we can all help their food. Bakeries, for From these results, the state, as reflected by heart stall in a noisy setting, we could choose to dine For example, I turn my example, pump out the researchers hypothesised rate. A more relaxed mind- such as a food market, in places with a lower music up so loud that you smell of freshly baked that music can impact on state, as indicated by a they should focus more on volume of background can hear it through my SCIENCE in recent times, plastics other alternatives you can bread to attract customers, our mood: higher music lower heart rate, is linked selling unhealthy food, as noise, therefore reducing earphones, and I find that are a big problem for the use, you can significantly while some stores play the volume (e.g. club music) to an increased preference consumers are more likely subconscious cues to ‘just right’. My roommate Steve Allain environment, and it is im- reduce the amount of UK top 40 to make them- can elicit excitement, for healthy food. In the to purchase such items in binge eat highly calorific disagrees, as she thinks Science Writer portant that we reduce our single-use plastic you use selves more appealing to a leading us to choose high experiments conducted this setting. Just imagine food. a silent environment consumption. To do this and dispose of. younger age group. This energy and unhealthy in both supermarkets and how likely you are to more relaxing. Using when visiting pubs and influence also extends to food, since these fatty cafés, low volumes of choose a burger over a this example, it is clear ver the past clubs, do not use straws music and background foods help reduce stress music and background salad in Borough Market! “The definition the definition of ‘high few months, unless the establishment “It is important noise, with both genre and and high level of excite- noise correlate with in- This can even be volume’ itself is quite I have been has biodegradable or volume having an impact ment. Vice versa, music creased sales of healthy extended to the design of ‘high obscure, and some indi- updating you plastic alternatives. we all on our appetite and food that prompts us to relax food, regardless of the of the market or malls, viduals might find loud Oall with a number of Likewise, when buying choice. may help us to make genre of music, impli- as building walls can volume’ used music more relaxing than conservation stories, bottled drinks, try to avoid reduce our A study published in healthier food choices, as cating how subconscious be designed to absorb in the study quiet background noise. both optimistic, and less ones in plastic packaging, consumption late April by Professor we gain better control of cues can trigger consump- sound to create a tranquil Furthermore, background so. Now, to wrap things or make sure you recycle Dipayan Biswas and ourselves. This effect is tion of food. environment, or walls is itself quite noises – people chatting, up, I thought it would your bottles afterwards of plastic” collaborators has demon- demonstrated by mindful- Translating this knowl- can even be put between glasses clinking, inter- be a good idea to give if you cannot. If you are strated how music can ness exercises that emo- edge into real-life applica- sub-departments to allow obscure and coms – cannot be con- you all a few ideas on similar to me and love influence our choice of tional eaters implement tions, perhaps restaurants different volumes or trolled in real life situation how you can make a few a cup of tea or two on Something else we can eating either healthy or to help them lose weight, that sell healthy food genres to be played in subjective” such as in a supermarket small changes to your your daily commute, then all do to help the natural unhealthy food. Their with a study finding that may want to have gentle, different areas. or a café, rendering daily routine to help save please carry a reusable world is get involved in Reducing plastic use is important in safeguarding our oceans // Wikimedia hypothesis was based individuals who practice quiet music floating in the As for us, if we want these finding limited to the planet. This does not cup. Not only will you be one way or another. There on previous findings in relaxation exercises have background, while fast to purchase and consume Nonetheless, this study individual context. While have to be as drastic as saving the environment, are a number of groups you can volunteer your wellbeing. Studies have getting involved! You different studies: our greater control in food food chains can turn up healthy food, perhaps we only demonstrated there these findings are not a going vegetarian, but but many coffee shops all across the UK devoted time with your favourite shown that people who never know, you may perception of taste can consumption. the volume to boost sales. can plug in our calming is a correlation, with the universal rule to be follow can be very simple. I also offer discounts to to animals and plants of animals! This has benefits spend time immersed in discover a new passion be modified via ambient Testing this in the Other business strategies music when we are going cause of this underlying at all costs, perhaps it is have listed a few ways those customers that do. all kinds. All it takes is a on both sides: not only nature have a better mental that drives you to help music; in a noisy envi- laboratory, supermarkets could also be modified for our grocery shop, so process yet to be under- still a cheeky method into below that I would like All of these small changes quick Google search, so will you be directly con- wellbeing than those that safeguard a specific part ronment our perception and cafes, results showed accordingly using the we won’t ‘accidentally’ stood. On top of that, we tricking ourselves to eat you to consider. do add up, and once you you will easily be able to tributing to conservation, do not. So, it’s a win-win the natural world. of sweetness and saltiness background music has an results of this study: when bring home the whole all have a preference for healthily! As we have all seen become aware of the find a group or two where but it can also help your situation – best of luck 12 13 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1697

SCIENCE [email protected] SCIENCE [email protected] Why we struggle to live up to our ideals The dawning of the age of synthetic biology

SCIENCE could be used to frame aspirations, meanwhile Synthetic biology is one of the latest buzzwords in the STEM community, but what is it actually all about? this theory: a scientist – such as being a “suc- Maria Balaet aspires to become a cessful scientist”, a “good Science Writer successful academic mentor”, or a “good SCIENCE bring more rigor, stand- modeling of biological of synthetic biology have new paradigm of biologi- emerging global synthetic (ideal self), considers parent” – pose harm for ards, and benchmarks in processes, and rigorous been employed by its cal engineering. However, biology scene, where the themselves hardwork- individuals, and implicitly Varshit Dusad communication to the statistical inference. predecessors, but only this conference coincided US has been the predom- recent study ing (actual self) and is for the society, since what Science Writer fundamental principles of partially. What makes with another event at MIT inant player. In 2012, the from Dr. Shai expected to be productive it means to have one of biology. this new prodigal child of which has become the UK Research Council Davidai and by their peers, colleagues these attributes is, at large, Philosophy of science, “Synthetic biotechnology different is world’s largest movement unveiled a roadmap for Professor and public (ought self). It a subject to debate. ould you more than anything else, that it provides a unique spearheading synthetic future with the ambition of AThomas Gilovich at is not difficult to imagine A connection worth like to have is driving the field of biology aims interface, encompassing biology: International making the UK a leader in Cornell University shows how not being able to further investigation is a vegan synthetic biology. It aims all the enabling technolo- Genetic Engineering synthetic biology. Its key our prominent regrets personally call themselves between regrets con- hamburger? to correct longstanding to complement gies together to focus on a Machines competition or recommendation included arise from ‘the ideal road a ‘successful academic’ cerning the ideal-self WAre you concerned with deficits obstructing the coherent purpose. iGEM. investing in a network of biology with not taken’ – our inability would constitute a regret and impostor syndrome, the deteriorating environ- progress of biology, Synthetic biology has iGEM is hosted every multidisciplinary centers to fulfil our ideal-self more damaging than not a condition that makes ment? Are you a biology namely that it is ‘hard to tools and done more than just allow year at MIT where for synthetic biology and aspirations. Additionally, being called ‘productive’ people doubt their geek eager to explain why replicate’ and ‘hard to for scientific progress: it teams across the world fostering a skilled and results from six studies enough by others – since accomplishments and biology is cool? The predict’. The idea is to principles of has succeeded in bringing participate and present well-funded UK-wide indicate 76% of people they are their own biggest consequently feel as if Many can find it hard to live up to their ideal self // CC answer to such wide-rang- bridge this fundamental together people from their project, built around synthetic biology commu- report not meeting their critic. they were a fraud. While ing questions is synthetic limitation in biology by engineering” diverse backgrounds like synthetic biology to nity. personally-imposed goals The researchers research on impostor students suffer from a discrepancy between has the power to teach us biology. complementing it with biologists, engineers, tackle any open problem These recommenda- as the biggest regret in proposed an explanation syndrome is limited, imposter syndrome, es- our ought self and actual a basic understanding of What is synthetic tools and principles of mathematicians, computer in biology. iGEM is im- tions led to forming of a their lives. that has to do with our recently individuals have pecially towards the end self, or the ideal self and what being human entails, biology? Formally, it engineering which have Some ardent critics scientists, policymakers, mensely popular, with the multi-university initiative The theory at the core own set goals and re- taken to social media to of medical school. The actual self. Thus, an in- and, importantly, what we is the interdisciplinary developed over a few cen- of synthetic biology environmental activists, number of participating bringing together top five of this research relies on sources needed to achieve voice to raise awareness researchers highlighted teresting research avenue can do to improve society. science of integrating turies to be able accurate- complain the enabling entrepreneurs, and inves- teams increasing every UK universities in syn- the idea that a person’s them, rather than our sub- about it – which has the one possible reason for would be to compare and By using this knowledge engineering principles ly predict and replicate technologies of synthetic tors. This has brought a year. The first iteration thetic biology – Imperial, sense of self depends on jective experience of self. potential to trigger in- such emotions would be contrast the ought self and of what generates feelings to biology to actively results. biology have been around cascading effect resulting of iGEM in 2004 saw Cambridge, Edinburgh, three attributes: the ideal Being “hardworking” or creased scientific interest. feelings of anxiety about the ideal self, as well as to of regret, we can improve reimagine, reshape, and There are a number for many years, and the into democratizing of only five teams, but as of King’s, and Newcastle – self (their life aspirations), “productive” involves A recent study pub- their ability to practice as investigate what happens communication about re-engineer living organ- of enabling technologies new field is no more biotechnology. Many 2017 more than 300 teams to “provide critical mass actual self (attributes that clear targets – a number lished in the International a doctor upon graduation. in situations when the line what people want to bring isms and develop artificial which have made syn- than a rebranded form of ‘Do it Yourself Biology’ participated in this global and bring synergy” in they possess), and ought of intense working hours Journal of Medical Another possible is blurred between what to the table, allowing biological systems. thetic biology possible as genetic engineering which labs have started to crop competition. synthetic biology devel- self (who their obligations daily, and a certain output. Education found around explanation, in light of one wishes for oneself and them to build a thriving In more simple words, well as different from its provides no additional up across the world, Perhaps the biggest opment. While King’s indicate they should be). Poorly defined guidelines a quarter of male and half the Cornell University what others expect. community at work, it is changing perspectives predecessors. These tech- utility beyond marketing including London, where driver of iGEM’s popu- focuses on the social and The following example for achieving ideal-self of female US medical research findings, may be Research into behaviour home, or outside. about harnessing the po- nologies include automat- to investors and funding science enthusiasts are de- larity is its emphasis on ethical implications of tential of biology for prac- ed DNA sequencing, rapid agencies. To their credit, veloping ‘radioshack-like science communication: synthetic biology, the tical use, borrowing from DNA synthesis, efficient they are partially right. laboratories’ taking on teams have to build an other four specialise in the field of engineering to DNA assembly, stochastic All objects in the toolkit open problems. DIY extensive wiki to present advanced research. Drop in cancer risk five years after quitting smoking biology enthusiasts have their work with proper a more sophisticated term documentation of project for it: ‘Bio-Hackerspace’. idea, workflow, results, “The UK has SCIENCE Center for Tobacco, Ad- importance of lung cancer The name is inspired by and a lab notebook for diction and Lifestyle. Prof. screening”. a hacking culture which all future teams to take been proactive Diego F. Nájera Tindle further stated: “the Biotechnological ad- began in silicon valley in guidance from. Moreover, Science Writer fact that lung cancer risk vancements have allowed the early 1980s where the every team has to do about being an drops relatively quickly for the use of effective enthusiasts would tinker public outreach, which integral part of after quitting smoking, tools such as lung cancer with technology just to involves organizing work- new analysis of compared to continuing screening, which signifi- push its limits. shops and media outreach, the new field” the Framingham smoking, gives new moti- cantly contribute to a re- The growing hacker conducting surveys, and Heart Study, vation.” duction in the risk of death movement has raised promoting themselves conducted by Nevertheless, it is caused by lung cancer. Its concerns among public on social media. The Synthetic biology is not Aa team of researchers led worth stressing the risk benefits, however, can be and policymakers alike. track record of Imperial just an evolution of a new by Hilary Tindle MD, of lung cancer remains maximised considerably Given even field-tested College has been very area of research but also a MPH at the Vanderbilt elevated despite quitting when partnered with suc- GMOs are viewed with impressive in iGEM; the societal and technological University Medical relative to individuals cessful quitting. suspicion, the idea of an team won the grand prize movement strong enough Centre, has revealed who have never smoked. Currently, smoking amateur trying to modify in 2016 and came overall to revolutionize how we encouraging findings for Co-researcher Matthew causes 1.69 million deaths bacteria to make it glow in second in 2014, 2011 and as humans interact with both current and former Just say no, kids // CC Freiberg, MD, MSc said: worldwide each year from dark instead of a flashlight 2006. In a disruptive field each other and our envi- smokers. “While the importance of lung cancer, and 87% is unpalatable to many. with no formal curriculum ronment. There is hope Findings from the revealed individuals who previously reported, and is a great time to quit,” smoking cessation cannot of lung cancer deaths in These concerns have been iGEM has been a success- as well as concern over Study – which is support- stop smoking had within highlights the benefits of said Professor Tindle, be overstated, former the United States alone. acknowledged by many ful endeavor in providing the change that might ed by the National Heart, five years a 39.1% lower smoking cessation. This the William Anderson heavy smokers need Needless to say, it very experts in the first ‘Syn- young students with a come, but all we can do is Lung, and Blood Institute, lung cancer risk relative risk continues to fall as Spickard Jr., MD Pro- to realise that the risk much remains a public thetic Biology 1.0’ confer- holistic education about prepare for the changes. and examined the health to current smokers. The the years since quitting in- fessor of Medicine at the of lung cancer remains health matter with and ence held at MIT, which synthetic biology. The dawn of synthetic records of nearly 9,000 rate at which the risk creases, relative to current Vanderbilt University elevated for decades after action needed from gov- discussed the risk, ethics, The UK has been very biology is here. people monitored over of lung cancer reduces smokers. School of Medicine, and they smoke their last cig- ernmental, private, and and intellectual property proactive about being an a number of decades – is faster than has been “If you smoke, now Director of the Vanderbilt arette, underscoring the educational entities. Synthetic biology is bringing together lots of different teams // CC issues associated with this integral participant in the 14 15 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1697

SCIENCE [email protected] SCIENCE [email protected] First new stereoisomer type in 50 years, claim chemists Cancer and the immune system – friend or foe?

SCIENCE other (if you have trouble a porphyrin macrocyclic SCIENCE plays in keeping cancer at imagining this, think of ring – a circular, rigid bay. People with immuno- Juan Rubio your right and left hand; structure formed by sub- Roser Gonzalez deficiencies, for example, Gorrochategui they are identical, but units of nitrogen, carbon Science Writer are known to be more Science Writer there is no physical way and hydrogen known as prone to develop tumors. to superimpose them in pyrroles and also found in a way that makes both haemoglobin – the bond hy is cancer hemists at of them identical to each angle inversion caused so difficult “Strikingly, both Shanghai other). by the bending of a trio to beat, University and of atoms in the molecule you might some cancers the University of (a boron-oxygen-boron Wbe wondering. The main have been CSydney have announced “The new bridge) is fixed in space, problem with cancer is the discovery of the first as rotation is blocked by that it arises from our shown to new kind of molecular family of the ring itself. This would own cells. We are all stereoisomer in half a not happen if the molecule unique and special, but create a micro- century. For those who stereoisomers was outside the macrocy- so are our tumors, which have never heard of this has taken its cle, as the rotation of the makes it difficult to deal environment, term, stereoisomers are bonds would produce a with them at a population molecules that share the name from molecule that would be The breakthrough may bring benefits to medicinal chemistry // CC level. Unfortunately, the using the same molecular formula identical to its starting same drug might not have immune (i.e. contain the same ákamptos configuration. and ‘amplo’, after the principles of future drugs. that, while promising, it is the same effect on two number of atoms of each The new family of ste- Latin words for small and Other hypothetical appli- very unlikely that akamp- different people, even system to their element) as well as bond – Greek for reoisomers has tentatively large, respectively. Ac- cations of akamptisomers toisomers will be soon though they might have Cancer cells dividing under the microscope // CC connections between ‘inflexible’” been named as Akampti- cording to the scientists include their potential use making an appearance in the same kind of cancer. advantage” species, but have different somers, taking its name who made this finding, in molecular computers. commercially available As we wait for personal- some of the cells of the T cells. number and functionality. much more research needs arrangements in the 3-D from ákamptos, the Greek the new group of isomers For these devices to work, molecular computers, as ised medicine to develop immune system to their Cancer cells can There seems, in other to be done, the inhibitor of space. Previous known The researchers term for ‘inflexible’. have potential to be useful it is essential that the mol- more research is needed in the future, scientists So, why does cancer advantage, providing therefore become reliant words, to be a compen- the T regulatory cells they stereoisomers include discovered the new The two possible isomer in several fields such as ecules used can change regarding the stability and are currently trying to emerge in a person with a them with more glucose on these particular cell satory effect. With this used is already approved enantiomers, which are structure in a molecule forms corresponding to medicinal chemistry, as between two different nature of this new family enhance our natural and healthy immune system? (food) and oxygen to fa- families for their survival. in mind, researchers at as a treatment for some pairs of molecules that called transoid (BF)O(B- the opposite orientations they could be essential for configurations. However, of isomers. already personalised Cancer is the result of the cilitate their growth. Apart And so, researchers the Babraham Institute cancers, so this new are non superimposable F)-quinoxalinoporphyrin. of the bond angle have the synthesis and charac- the chemists involved in defence mechanisms: our uncontrolled growth of as from this comfort, cancer are currently working employed a dual strategy strategy could potentially mirror images of each When it is surrounded by been baptized as ‘parvo’ terization of the active the discovery admitted immune system. little as one of our own cells become invisible on ways to exploit this in which they managed to be easily translated into In general, people asso- cells. Since these cells and thus protected from weakness. Individual dis- disrupt both cell families the clinic. ciate the immune system replicate quite fast, they the rest of the immune ruption of the cancer-as- simultaneously. In their Considering how with the body’s mecha- often acquire mutations system, which would sociated macrophages or recent publication, they complex cancer is as a Imperial CDT Science festival: Science and Ethics nism of defense against that can make them resist- otherwise eliminate them. the regulatory T cells has show that in a colon disease, boosting our own viral, fungal, and bacterial ant to current medication More specifically, there so far failed to provide cancer model in mice this immune system to battle infections. But this is not or even the detection of are two families of cells any satisfactory results, treatment promotes the it is a strategy that might SCIENCE fields to a variety of de- our identity as species? researchers are invited all it does – it also fights the immune system itself. belonging to the immune the reason being that upon immune system rejection serve to overcome current bated topics with valuable How will we make to submit posters for back against cancer. There More strikingly, some system that generally dysfunction in one of of the cancer. By the end limitations when the med- Riccardo Moriconi insights from a pool of complex decisions in the one-day pop-up is plenty of evidence cancers have been shown become cancer friendly: these cell families there of the study half of the ications we do have stop Science Writer experts in the field. The more general critical ‘Sustainable Innovation showing how important a to create a microenviron- cancer associated-mac- is a tendency for the other mice were completely working. discussions will provide scenarios with (un)clear Exhibition’, to showcase role the immune system ment in which they use rophages and regulatory to increase in terms of tumor free. Although a stimulating ground to conflicting goals? How the ethical implications of he synergy be- address the curiosity and can we possibly leverage their scientific research. tween Science common concerns of the technology whilst pre- Submissions are now and Ethics is audience – since science serving our values? The open at http://www.cdtfes- Want to be involved in Felix next year? pervasive in our and ethics are two faces of questions are endless … tival.co.uk/. 9th July 2018 Tsociety. Scientific ad- the same coin. 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TECH [email protected] What did we miss? An entire three months of tech summarised in under a minute of speed-reading.

OnePlus 6’s notch, iOS 12’s new notifications, and the newly announced Fallout 76// Android Authority, 9to5mac, and Microsoft

TECH OnePlus 6 Event: in Bluetooth adoption and troduction of any iPhones through thousands of variation of Dungeons helps stifle any (righteous, or MacBooks at the unwanted photos that and Dragons with his Tom Mrazek Let’s turn this into a for now but not for much conference. Instead, Tim much more fun. Amazon Echo. I could Tech Editor bit of an op-ed piece for longer I hope) criticism Cook and co. announced If you ask me, I’m complain about Bethesda a second – I’m no fan of that customers shouldn’t MacOS Mojave which happy with the direction for being, for the lack of a notches. I like my bezels have to pick between an brings a true dark mode this year’s WWDC has better term, woke, but I’m he light blinded uniform and symmet- obsolete solution (the but, more importantly, a taken. Both Apple’s really just happy to see me as I climbed rical. Despite my gripe jack) and a subpar one complete revolution in mobile and desktop OS Keegan-Michael Key in a out of my cave. with some aspects of the (Bluetooth). Thankfully, how you use your desktop. need not new features but skit again. For many, time flagship’s appearance, Oneplus kept the head- rather improvements in Tessentially stopped around OnePlus has put together phone jack too. usability and the ironing March and didn’t restart a respectable phone on “Apple is out of bugs. Microsoft, “TL;DR: until their very last exam. paper with a price tag that Apple’s WWDC: watch and learn. I was one of those people, yet again undercuts most pushing Evolution is and until a few hours ago competition. If it ain’t Well, it’s Apple we’re improvements E3???: the name of I was convinced that noth- broke don’t try to fix it. talking about, so let me ing happened in the world guess – they rendered a in usability, Oh right, E3 happened! the game, not of tech for the past three few old iPhones obsolete, Among the announce- months. “OnePlus 6 added another camera on not new ments was Naughty Dog’s revolution.” Holy crap was I the back of the iPhone 8S, guarantee that many more wrong.... verdict: if it and introduced a couple features” tears will be shed by Of course, within the And so were you, ain’t broke more bugs into High console gamers this year past three months, count- probably. Here’s an Sierra? If you’re anything like – The Last of Us Part II is less startups have brought update on everything don’t try to fix All wrong – Apple me, you treat your desktop upon us. about their innovations you’ve missed if you’ve surprised everyone by the way you would a serial Bethesda’s trailer for and hundreds of other just emerged from the it” announcing iOS 12 would killer in your room – keep “Skyrim Very Special companies unveiled their darkest, gloomiest corners not only be supported by your distance, throw stuff Edition” featuring a satiri- exciting products like of the library. all the iPhones featuring at it, and most importantly cal introduction of Skyrim Asus’ laptop with a screen In complete antithe- Introduced alongside iOS 11, but also aim to don’t make any direct eye to a new platform – replacing the touchpad. sis to all the math and their phone was a pair of fix the countless bugs contact. With Mojave, a Amazon’s Alexa. Poking Keeping tabs on the thinking that’s behind us Bluetooth earbuds for just that turn your phone into feature known as sets will fun at their inclination aforementioned trifecta of we’re going to do this in £69 – I for one welcome a paperweight should it attempt to organize your to try earn money off the events should, however, no particular order at all. this as any competition try to display the wrong desktop by file type while Skyrim brand in any way spare you for some em- to Apple’s costly offering character. a new viewing mode for possible, the protagonist barrassing ignorance in means a potential increase We didn’t see the in- finder will make scrolling in the trailer plays a the next few days. 18 FELIX ISSUE 1697

MUSIC [email protected] God save the Childqueen LA psychedelic-soul artist Kadhja Bonet returns with Childqueen, the follow-up to her breakthrough LP The Visitor, displaying her instrumental skills and syrupy vocals.

MUSIC some kind of visitation, more free-floating, on CHILDQUEEN someone plucked from Childqueen they are often another time and space, anchored by a series of only touching down for a incredibly-funky bass brief instance. riffs, giving the songs a lot Artist: Kadhja Bonet. more energy and presence. Label: Fat Possum Top ‘Thoughts Around Tea’, Tracks: Delphine; Another “Bonet seems for example, features Time Lover; Mother Maybe. rat-a-tat drums pierced For Fans Of: Moses in many ways by stabbing synth pro- Sumney; ESKA. 37 minutes gressions, while a looping like some kind bassline runs underneath Fred Fyles of visitation it all; Bonet’s delivery is Editor-in-Chief fluent and funky, as she from another lyrically contorts to fit around the pulsating beat. here is a double time and She pulls a similar trick pleasure in on ‘Wings’, stretching her discovering the space” vocals around the music, music of LA elongating a phrase here Tpsychedelic-soul artist and there to create a sense Kadhja Bonet. There is, With Childqueen, her of relentless motion, first of all, the joy to be follow-up, Bonet con- hitting all the right intona- found in the music: warm tinues to plunder from a tions. and inviting, completely vast array of sources, but ‘Mother Maybe’, drenched in a sticky sense develops her confidence, one of the early singles of pleasant nostalgia, the creating a sound that is ex- released from the album, songs seem to have been citingly entirely her own. is probably as funky beamed to us directly The first few minutes of as Bonet gets: cymbol from the 1970s. This sense Childqueen sound similar tapping is overlaid with of timelessness seems to to The Visitor: on opening wobbly bass guitar, while place Bonet’s work among track, ‘Procession’, she ray-gun synths and organ How do you like your eggs in the morning? // Fat Possum Records the legion of record store advises us that “every warbles flow underneath, oddities, which gathered morning brings a chance to create a dense tapestry occasion, however, she’ll over her voice, producing While sampling from the dust in crates before being to renew, chance to of sound. This intense let rip, such as on the later a jelly-like vibrato that classic toolbox of psyche- recognised as brilliant renew,” like some kind of weft and warp cuts out sections of ‘Delphine’. quivers before stealing delia, funk, and soul, works – musicians like spiritual advisor at dawn. towards the end of the into pure, clear notes; Bonet’s production will Linda Perhacs and Kim A marching drum beat track, as Bonet launches elsewhere, on ‘Joy’, she include samples of off-kil- Jung Mi spring to mind, then starts up, the military into a series of incredible “Silky smooth, multiplies her voice until ter weirdness – chirping not due to sonic simi- atmosphere contrasting vocal runs, displaying her it resembles an angelic birds, popping bubbles, larities, but more in the with the funky bass guitar impressive voice. Bonet’s chorus. The album ends a jazzy flute solo – that sense we are listening to line and fluttering flutes, And what a voice it is. with the appropriately ensures it never settles something that was once which cut through the Silky smooth, Bonet’s vocals always titled ‘…’, which culmi- into normalcy. lost, now found. ethereal glittering synths vocals emanate an inner emanate an nates in a phenomenal On social media, Bonet The second pleasure, enshrouding Bonet’s warmth; she manages to series of vocal acrobatics, has admitted to struggles therefore, is finding vocals. The next track, sound a little a little like inner warmth” with Bonet inching up with funding; a European that – despite her ‘70s ‘Childqueen’, starts off any number of iconic soul higher, and higher, and tour was cancelled last stylings – Bonet is very with swelling strings, vocalists – Dusty Spring- higher, before disap- year, after she said she much a modern artist, before morphing into field, Minnie Riperton, It’s the track on this album pearing, transferred onto would be losing too much who only put out her a laid-back soul track, Roberta Flack – while that sees Bonet’s vocals another astral plane most money, while her desire to debut album a couple of which sounds like it remaining completely most up-front. The drums likely. produce music videos has years ago. Her 2016 LP, could be played over the idiosyncratic. Often she’ll are barely-there, and the Bonet is a hugely been stymied by financial entitled The Visitor, was opening credits to a ‘60s layer her singing to create wonky bass, as thick as exciting artist. A talented worries. It’s clear that, as a well-curated collection psych-pop film. a form of cosmic harmony, syrup, allows plenty of multi-instrumentalist – an artist, Bonet’s vision is of beautiful songs, with a From this point on, but at times she’ll leave room for her to break she played pretty much outstripping her resourc- clearly-defined sound – a however, Bonet makes herself completely through the dizziness, every instrument on the es. With the backing she curious mixture of soul, a subtle but noticeable exposed. The majority of crafting a track that seems album – she came out of so dearly deserves, who psychedelia, and funk. departure from her sound her vocals are delivered to drip with yearning. the gate with an instant- knows what heights she The name of the album on The Visitor: while in in a sort of whisper-sing- On ‘Another Time ly-recognisable style, could scale. was appropriate: Bonet her first album the tracks ing, as if she’s speaking Lover’ she shows us the confident in her ability to seems in many ways like seemed to be much right into your ear; on excellent control she has know exactly who she is. 19 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1697

MUSIC [email protected] MUSIC [email protected] Kids See Ghosts is a return to form for Kanye West The times, they are a-changin’: a precarious balance Only a week after the release of Ye, Kanye is back, this time teaming up with Kid Cudi as Kids See Ghosts. While the of alienation and progression previous album felt rushed, this newest output is a refined and thoughtful masterpiece. This article started life as a thinkpiece. It then became a listicle, before reverting back to thinkpiece. Whatever

MUSIC of Ty Dolla Sign, gigantic ing exclamation of “I can form it now takes, it’s my final article of the year so you’d better bloody enjoy it. KIDS SEE GHOSTS and layered evaporating still feel the love” on ‘Feel cries of “I feel freeee” on The Love’ which the song the aptly titled ‘Freeee builds around. Indeed, MUSIC All Back Home included (Ghost Town, Pt. 2)’. The while it is probably Kanye a side of songs, simulta- Artist: Kids See Ghosts. production delivers easy who steered this project Adrian LaMoury neously the densest and Label: G.O.O.D. Music; to miss whizzing whistles to stylistic and aesthetic Music Editor shallowest of his canon, Def Jam. Top Tracks: 4th and triumphant screams excellence, it is Cudi backed by an electric Dimension; Reborn; Cudi on ‘Fire’ and similarly who keeps the break- band. A few months later Montage. For Fans Of: subtle but pretty, high down-conquering theme he recent re- at Newport folk festival, WZRD; Raury; Lil Uzi; pitched string shivers on of the project potent and lease of Arctic he arrived on stage Gorillaz. 24 minutes ‘Kids See Ghosts’. We lit- effective, and in this way Monkeys’ leather-clad and Strato- erally hear a childish evil the pair complement one Tranquillity Base caster-adorned, and, with Asad Raja cackle mid-way through another nicely. That is to THotel & Casino divided the snap of a snare, im- Music Writer ‘4th Dimension’. It is say, where Kanye’s bars fans. A far cry from the mediately launched into obvious that a lot of effort and delivery are undenia- angst-laden and frenetic new hit ‘Like A Rolling was put into maintaining bly flashier and more im- rock of the noughties, Stone’. “How does it his self-titled the aesthetic of the album pressive than Cudi’s, Cudi TBH&C brought with it a feel?!” he sneered over release marks the and it has certainly paid generally delivers the toned-down, lounge vibe, the boos and jeers, with first collaboration off. more emotive moments filled with nuances and a swagger before unseen. project from hip In 2016, Kid Cudi and with lines such as “I guess subtleties rather foreign It may have turned away Thop’s biggest contempo- Kanye both went through I’m just sick of running to their previously brash a generation, but it also rary influencers, Kid Cudi a low point with their / All this time searching and unapologetically cemented his position in and Kanye West, who have mental health, with Kid hard for something / I can frank discography. While music history: he was a dubbed themselves Kids Cudi checking himself hear the angels coming”. many embraced their new rockstar. See Ghosts. This moniker into rehab on account of True, it is difficult sound, a not insignificant and album title, as well depression and suicidal not to wish for both the subset heralded the If ya say so, computer as the album art, which urges (as explained in high-quality bars and swerve as a betrayal of was the work of Takashi the emotional statement thematic focus from both their original fanbase. If OK Computer chron- Murakami (who has pre- he released at the time) halves of Kids See Ghosts, Despite the widespread icles humanity’s struggle Dylan played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly, and the spiders from Mars // Flickr/Paul Townsend viously worked with Ye and Kanye having to just to make the album uproar, this change of against machines, Kid on Graduation) is perfect bring his Saint Pablo tour slightly more coherent. Scary Monsters and Lil Peeps // G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam musical direction pales A prophecies a dystopia A full three years on from year will know, I can Stardust, and the rest is electronic and ambient for this project. Indeed, to an early close when Even the first verse on in comparison to some within which the robots their previous release, it rarely go a full article history. Except it’s not. music, as part of his Berlin they truly encapsulate he was hospitalised for the album, a Pusha T verse back down to earth all the rain, I want all the is surely Kanye’s most of those taken by crucial won. With one side of the ushered in the new mil- without mentioning one The persona of Ziggy Trilogy with longtime what we get from the psychosis. Mental health feature, though fiery and with the lines “Tell the pain” Kanye raps, laying conscious verse in a very artists throughout history. Atlantic launching grunge lennium with synthesisers Mr. David Robert Jones. was killed onstage in friend and collaborator album – something sur- has always been a very braggadocious, doesn’t cougar get up off me, no, himself bare and admit- long time. He raps about In each, a bold risk was and the other championing and arpeggiators. Hooks But here (for once) it’s 1973, and by ’75 Bowie Brian Eno. real, colourful, sonically prominent theme in Kid really have much to do my soul ain’t for sale / All ting that the pain in his the cycle of violence seen taken – potentially alienat- Britpop, the Radiohead of were sparse, soundscapes not without good reason. had dropped glam rock I won’t bore you with captivating, psychedelic, Cudi’s music, and Kanye’s with Cudi “feel(ing) the the evils in the world, they life has become numbing in impoverished neigh- ing the very people whose the mid-nineties was inev- bleak, and not a guitar in Springing from whimsi- altogether, switching to all the details of his sub- child-like, magical; bitter- albums from 808s and love”. Similarly, Mos keeping on me for real”. to the point of addictive bourhoods in America support enabled them to itably one of guitar driven sight. Nowadays it doesn’t cal psychedelic folk in the blue-eyed soul sound sequent works, but let it sweet in places and eerie Heartbreaks onward have Def’s spoken-word type ‘Reborn’ is a beautiful (a sentiment particularly and the routine loss of take the leap in the first belters and ballads. Kid A seem all that revolution- the late sixties, Bowie of Young Americans. This suffice to say he hopped in others. each had a fair deal to say thing at the end of ‘Kids ballad of progression and echoed on both parts of men to imprisonment place. Inevitably, many was a landmark of change. ary – they kinda made hit the seventies like a was a drastic sidestep into new-romanticism, We are kept in this crazy on the matter. Ye, released See Ghosts’ about “civi- self-improvement, my fa- ‘Ghost Town’). Cudi’s in such environments. I flopped. Others, however, innovation and surprise riff-laden, skin-suited, not only because of the flirted with disco, sported Super Smash Bros. meets only a week before this lization without society” vourite song of the album. verse is just as emotional, wonder what his buddy changed the musical land- their thing, and it’s very glam-rock train, which change of timbre but also some chart success (his Attack on Titan world one, honed in on that (still not quite sure what Cudi sings a heartfelt though he makes sure Trump thinks. The song scape for good. “One of easy to retrospectively say chugged away for half as it made him one of the ‘Phil Collins Years’), tried throughout the project theme. However, where that means) seems fairly chorus of “I’m so – I’m to remind us “peace is ends with a majestic outro it was an obvious move – a glitter-filled decade. first English pop artists to his hand at world music, with vocal and production that album explored his random. However, when so reborn, I’m movin’ something that starts with as Mr. Hudson, Kid Cudi Dylan goes electric the most but back in 2000, one of The difference at this embrace a style that had formed a boyband, hit up moments that range from mental health condition in all the aspects of this forward… / Ain’t no stress me”. The song ends with and Kanye’s vocals blend the most acclaimed rock juncture, however, is that until then largely resided industrial, drum n bass, unavoidably explicit a fairly rushed and often album come together, it on me Lord, I’m movin’ a gorgeous beat switch up together. “Lord shine your In the early sixties, Bob acclaimed rock bands of the era releasing Bowie didn’t alienate his within black America. jazz, and much, much to subtle yet effective. limited manner, Kids See makes for near flawless forward” over a calming, as the chorus comes back light on me, save me, Dylan was a figurehead of a fully electronic album fanbase. He didn’t really Whether appropriative or more. With each twist, Kanye delivers expressive Ghosts for the most part songs. ‘4th Dimension’ angelic beat comprising in over soothing synths please” Kanye implores. folk. Only acoustic guitar bands of the certainly shook things up have one to alienate. Not appreciative is a different some fans were lost and machine gun imita- provides a more complete, is one of these – a 30s of simple keys, progres- and close drums. I do hope Kid Cudi and and harmonica accompa- era releasing a a bit. Swathes of adoring at this point at least. argument, but either way some gained; the net result tions complimented by focused and sincere Christmas song is sampled sive drums, glimmering It would be amiss for Kanye West are “saved” nied his carefully crafted fans renounced them, but By the end of 1969, fans and critics were left wasn’t always positive. powerful drum pounding account, coming closer to ingeniously as Kanye synths, and the aforemen- me not to mention ‘Cudi from their spiritual and narratives and protest fully electronic it resonated with many he’d been dismissed as torn and confused. I think to an extent on ‘Feel The Love’. Cudi the standard set by Cudi’s delivers a crude ‘Hell Of tioned remedial moans. Montage’, the last track on mental suffering. One songs. He was pointed and more, and the vibrations something of a one-hit It wasn’t to last though. every artist is restless. delivers spiritual, delicate Man on the Moon. The A Life’-style verse about Both Kanye and Kid Cudi the album. A Kurt Cobain thing that clearly needs political, often labelled album are still felt to this day. wonder, his sole outing His next album, Station No one wants to define wailing on ‘Reborn’ (I project is nevertheless a chaotic hook up which deliver their most personal sample and a fast-paced no saving though is their the “spokesman of a gen- chiefly thanks to the to Station, saw him fuse or be defined by a sole should add, the signature decidedly triumphant and he compares to a “new and intimate verses of Cudi flow guides the track ability to make music. eration”. Not content to certainly The Chameleon King BBC’s inclusion of ‘Space funk with krautrock as the look, genre, or rhetoric. Cudder moan is more pal- optimistic when exploring dimension”. Cudi’s verse the album. “I was off the forward as the beat builds Here’s to hoping Kids See be confined to this niche, shook things Oddity’ in their coverage slicked-back, cocaine-ad- But few illustrated that atable on this album than such issues which is clear is similarly dark and sug- meds, I was called insane for a grand chorus. The Ghosts is not a one-time however, Dylan left fans As anybody who’s of the moon landing. He dled Thin White Duke. irrepressible agitation and it has been in years). The from the onset with Cudi’s gestive with a confident / What a awesome thing, beat then strips back down stint. aghast when his March up a bit” been keeping up with later found his break as From there he began to hunger for change better pair deliver, with the help powerful and reverberat- delivery but he brings his engulfed in shame / I want to the sample for what 1965 album Bringing It Felix Music over the past the mullet-sporting Ziggy experiment with art rock, than David Bowie. 20 21 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1697

MUSIC [email protected] MUSIC [email protected] Resistance to this album is futile Man on Blonde: a masterpiece revisited

MUSIC ticipated album opens with background set the tone Stella’s-back-at-the-un- Music Writer Ben Man takes a look back at Frank Ocean’s thoughtful, experimental, beautiful Blonde, nearly two RESISTANCE IS FUTILE ‘People Give In’, an eerie for the minor verse. We ion sweet fucking spot. key riff suspending us for cruise for a while before ‘Dylan & Caitlin’ features years on from its release. a brief moment – what are MSP break back into The Anchoress, with a these hipster vibes – then, their classic major solo, voice like the bastard Artist: Manic Street fuck! They’re back with using the same call and child of Lana del Rey and MUSIC atmospheric, sometimes pleasant surprise – rapper Preachers. Label: Columbia. a sick triplet feel groove, response, vocal and guitar David Bowie. (Question: ethereal Blonde contrasts Yung Lean’s murmurs are Top Tracks: Dylan & alternating each bar with play they always find a if that child actually Ben Man to the cinematic, more ac- used as vocal texture in Caitlin; International Blue. a momentum shift on the place for – like ‘All We existed, would she be hot? Music Writer cessible Channel Orange. ‘Godspeed’. For Fans Of: Suede; 3&4. The chorus is full Make is Entertainment’ How much therapy would The mood of the album Each song on the Stereophonics. 46 minutes and welcoming with lots (Postcards from a Young she require?) Anyway, is melancholy, reflective, album shifts and changes of strings, setting the vibe Man, 2010). It’s good if you’re probably wonder- he artist known and introspective. throughout the course of Jack Pearson very well for the rest of you’re a fan. It’s good if ing why you’ve never as Frank Ocean, listening. Ocean changes Tams Lu the album. Bradfield hits you’ve never listened to heard of an artist that’s born Christopher his melodies with each Music Writers his classic falsetto right them. Man, I don’t know on a Manics album, and Breaux, was “The album song, leading to much less where it’s needed. A solid who this isn’t good for, so am I. She has just over Tborn and raised in New repetition than previous start to a great album. you know? 1200 monthly listeners on Orleans, Louisiana. He never gets works, giving Blonde ho are the We segue into ‘Inter- Five songs in we hit Spotify, a mere fraction studied English at New depth by refraining Manic national Blue’ and travel a real sweet spot. Like of Manics 1 million. Her Orleans University, stale: Ocean from forcing hooks and Street into fucking spacetime. debut album Confessions writing music on the side, has packed choruses on the listener. Preachers? Lots of drive and distorted of a Romance Novelist #slay // Columbia before Hurricane Katrina Ocean similarly treats his WThey’re hailed as indie rhythm, Manic Street was released in 2016 destroyed his studio and in so many voice to an instrument, rock kings. Preachers giving us some “The album with little success, but the to their name and their you to listen to Journal uprooted his life. Ocean layering it in a swelling They’re known for a proper energy to chew is yet another Manics have a real eye for style, with a solid and for Plague Lovers and made the decision to ideas that each choir on ‘White Ferrari’, slick bit of politics. on here. Like a virgin talent. So get to it, sheep, vibrant 4/4 groove, major Postcards From a Young move to Los Angeles and applying changing Resistance is Futile having a one night stand excellent, if get following. I promise keyed jams and tasteful Man. Then listen to this to fully pursue music, listen reveals effects to it in songs such gives us that, but better. this drive doesn’t last it’ll be worth it. guitar solos. Whether it’s again. Then ask yourself: earning a song-writing another layer as ‘Nikes’. Building off their old for long – we come to expected, The album is yet getting a bit repetitive, I Who the fuck are the deal, penning lyrics and The changing melodies classics ‘Motorcycle lovely ‘Vivian’, the first another excellent, if don’t know… but on the Manic Street Preachers melodies for other artists of musical and are compounded by fluid, Emptiness’ and ‘A Design slow track on this album. political cry” expected, political cry. off-chance you don’t like and how could I not love before joining up with the continuously changing For Life’, this eagerly an- Clicks and scrapes in the They have stayed true this album I challenge them? OFWGKTA (Odd Future) lyrical content” soundscapes. In ‘Nikes’, hip-hop/art collective and foggy synths, keyboards, signing a contract with and cinematic samples Def Jam records. He then Previous reviews of subtly blend into each The queen of summertime sadness continues her reign released the highly ac- Channel Orange said other as they enter and claimed Nostalgia, Ultra Ocean has pushed the exit the song, accompa- mixtape in 2011, before boundaries of R&B, nied by a sparse, changing Blondes really do have more fun // Boys Don’t Cry MUSIC of her previous album, but the air’. Both tracks have ironic. Even some names working on other music causing him to state his drum line. SO SAD, SO SEXY is quickly layered with repetitive lyrics, making of songs: ‘sex money including songs on Kanye dislike for such a label, The musicians on parts appear on under half that far”, he wryly sings on songs on the album can others, taking on a more them irritating at first, but feelings die’, ‘so sad West and Jay-Z’s Watch saying it’s “inaccurate Blonde often separately the album. Ocean is often ‘Futura Free’. On ‘Good genuinely change with robotic quality. The pro- impossibly catchy by the so sexy’, ‘bad woman’, the Throne and Beyoncé’s when you’re making provided parts on songs only accompanied by a Guy’, Ocean reminisces time as different things duction is also distinctly fourth or fifth listen. and ‘better alone’ are Beyoncé. In the midst of music inspired by so without ever hearing the single guitar or keyboard, about meeting someone in are taken from the album, Artist: Lykke Li. Label: clean, and the influences somewhat eyeroll-in- Ocean’s momentous rise many different things”. final product, contributing serving to further empha- New York from a dating but the transcendent RCA. Top Tracks: hard from American hip-hop ducing, but Li deals with to success, he released an Moving forward, Blonde to the ethereal mood of sise the imagery of his app, reflecting “You text moment when the drums rain; utopia. For Fans Of: are clear. The next track, “On the second them so genuinely, with open letter on his Tumblr completely transcends the album as ambient, lyrics, the melody, and nothing like you look” start on ‘Pretty Sweet’ is a Lana Del Rey; Robyn; First ‘deep end’ has a dubstep a self-deprecating edge, account recounting his classification. A flowing disconnected lines slowly the emotional tone of his and “here’s where I genuine highlight. Aid Kit; PJ Harvey. 34 edge. ‘two nights’ starts half of the that you can’t help but unrequited love for a male channel of collaborators slide in and out of focus. voice. realised you talk so much Ocean’s commitment minutes like a piano backed get on board. Cynicism friend one summer when runs through the album, Keyboardist Buddy Ross, Ocean’s feelings are more than I do”. Standout to his vision, ability to ballad that could belong album, Li is difficult to sustain with he was 19 years old. He with Ocean melding who provided the backing palpable through the tone imagery comes from the consistently break new Simran Kukran on either of Li’s other emotion delivered so released the Grammy- them together to create a track for ‘Facebook Story’ of his voice alone – he spoken word section on ground, and refusal to Music Writer albums, but a feature from continues to authentically. The album winning album Channel sound that fits his vision. and ‘Be Yourself’, said alternates between tender ‘Seigfried’, where Ocean compromise what he Portland rapper Amine closes on the powerful Orange in 2012, and The collaborators aren’t “[Ocean] has this vision and reflective in ‘Ivy’, says “Less morose and creates have produced a sets it apart. His flow is be vulnerable ‘utopia’. It was originally then – after a four-year given the spotlight, but that no one else really is offers solemn, emotional more present/Dwell on masterpiece. He is one of ykke Li’s 4th sharp and punchy, con- and emotional shared by Li on social silence – Ocean released are mostly used akin to privy to. A lot of times prayer on ‘Godspeed’, my gifts for a second/A the best musicians of his studio album, trasting beautifully with media as a tribute on the visual album Endless, session musicians: Ra- you don’t even know what and gives a frenetic moment, one solar flare generation. I’ve had more so sad so sexy Li’s melodic warbling. without Mother’s Day with the and the album Blonde. diohead guitarist Jonny you’re working on. He declaration backed by we’re consumed, so why than a few dreams where is her first in The next few tracks are note: “MOTHER TO I’ve been regularly Greenwood provides just puts blinds on every- something approaching a not/spend this flammable I’ve met Frank Ocean and Lfour years. During this i cri everytime // RCA self-indulgent in a way apology” MOTHER TO MOTHER. listening to Blonde for swelling string arrange- body and sends them off choral summoning chant paper on the film that’s didn’t really know what to break, she grappled with only Lykke Li can pull Utopia is all my mother the past 18 months. The ments on ‘Seigfried’, in their own space to just on ‘Pretty Sweet’. my life”. say. the artistic block she trials and tribulations of summertime sadness. off. “Let me keep the last ever wanted for me and album never gets stale: Beyonce adds her backing do whatever they want”. He remains a powerful One slight gripe comes They say he lives in experienced as she had her twenties, Li said writ- Her first single from piece of my heart, before On the second half of all I ever want for him. Ocean has packed so vocals to a harmonic Blonde is sonically storyteller, able to with ‘Solo (Reprise)’, Notting Hill, about half an a child and mourned the ing the three albums set the album, ‘hard rain’, is you tear it all apart” she the album, Li continues ”. many ideas into 17 songs orchestra of voices at the bare in comparison to the invoke strong images which is difficult to listen hour away from Imperial loss of her mother. Youth her free, but it is apparent the opening track. At the laments on ‘last piece’, to be unapologetically The tribute is poignant, that each listen reveals end of ‘Pink + White’, bolder Channel Orange, and feelings through his to casually, due to its campus. It would probably Novel, Wounded Rhymes, from her latest album she start, her distinct voice, before concluding “I vulnerable and emotional but delivers an optimistic another layer of musical Andre 3000 of Outkast with more subtle harmo- lyrics. “Remember when dissonant sound and pace be better for music’s sake and I Never Learn were is yet to step down from backed by synths, croons know we’re gonna make with lyrics so sad and ending. and lyrical content. spits a frantic verse on nies and a minimal range I had that Lexus, no, our compared to the rest of if we didn’t disturb him. a trilogy; exploring the her throne as queen of out in a style reminiscent it someday” on ‘jaguars in desperate they’re almost In terms of sound, the ‘Solo (Reprise)’, and – in a of instruments. Drum friendship don’t go back the album. The standout 22 23 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX

MUSIC [email protected] What do we talk about when we talk about music?

The father of Chicago blues – a giant on whose shoulders we stand // Muddy Waters

MUSIC epics of classical music, we fall in love when it sound sad. Going down a latent wish to be read into. or as the deft and dizzying connects. Sure, there’s fifth sounds like coming The Western music tra- “Don’t just Henry Eshbaugh medley of extended aesthetic value to music home. There’s that phrase dition is a fecund source Music Editor intervals and enchanting – it can be pretty, can’t it? you remember from the of unspecific meaning. We listen to music. improvisation that con- But pretty isn’t hook-y. song on the radio when interpret lines as sounding stitute jazz. What’s the We can enjoy a nice view, you realized you lost bright, dour, space-y, con- Talk about hat moti- equivalence? After all, feel sated, and move on your teddy bear seventeen nections formed by years music. Argue vates the this is the music section, with our lives. Pretty years ago, and now it of listening, interacting, musician? and at the end of the day doesn’t compel us to sounds like loss. Nuance playing, writing, talking, about music. Compulsive we all just shit out some interact, to come back and is conveyed in every thinking. Beauty truly is Wenjoyment of frissive rating outta five and go back again. The works we aspect of performance – in the eye of the beholder; Participate in frequencies rattling home. love always have a certain in picking dynamics, in art is elevated by the together in perfect harmo- catharsis – a foothold to harmony, in the way the process of interpretation music” ny? Melodies meandering identifying with the song band coheres. as much as it is in its very through modes and motifs, “After all, this or album that transcends Orthogonally, we have creation – whether it be a each refrain serving as the ‘simple’ sound. Good lyrics – perhaps the most ramble in a uni paper or a I’d like to close this a signifier, a stand-in is the Music music is more than just direct means of commu- slick reharm by a talented piece off – and this year for human speech – the decoration. It includes an nicating intent, but which artist. It is the very attempt off – by thanking Adrian connotations built by our section, and at invitation to subsume the themselves can dissolve to interpret a piece of and Andy for an amazing musical traditions there to work into yourself. into a wonderfully abstract work’s meaning that gives job editing the section, hint at some underlying the end of the This necessitates sea of connotations and that work meaning, a sort Fred for being a legendary meaning? Is it all just day we all just some kind of symbolic reverberant feeling. To an of Deleuzo-Guattarian Editor-in-Chief, our con- aesthetic in the solitary exchange. The afore- earlier point, this is why reterritorialization-recon- tributors for their dedica- Platonic ideal, or is there shit out some mentioned catharsis rusty strings and off-kilter textualization of intent tion and their wonderful a more symbolic point? requires a conveying of strumming can sound so that feeds back into a opinions on all things A major challenge rating outta attitude, emotion, inten- wonderful; sometimes rich cultural dialogue and sonic, the copy editors in assessing music as a tion, information. You they just fit a voice, and moves the music world for their much-needed medium is the compli- five and go don’t find information technicality gives way to forward. and little-appreciated cated interaction between home” in random noise, as any the rawness of emotion And so, I beg of work behind the scenes, the literary and the sonic. mathematician will tell otherwise conveyed. And you – don’t just listen to and, generally, everyone Plain-jane three-chord you. Musicians cultivate in this movement, ballads music. Talk about music. at Felix for a fantastic six-string ballads are just We need to talk about vocabularies, identifying and jazz fall on equal Think about music. Argue fucking year. as capable of captivating the way we interact with themselves with tradi- footing. Different tradi- about music. Participate Ah, and you, dear us as the most lavishly-or- music. The meaning we tions spanning hundreds tions, different customs, in music. There are few reader. Thank you. chestrated instrumental find in it, and the way of years. Minor modes to be sure, but the same pleasures in life so rich. 24 FELIX ISSUE 1697

FILM [email protected] The cinema of Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Palme d’Or last month for his drama Shoplifters – it’s a long-overdue recognition for the spiritual successor of Yasujiro Ozu.

FILM number represented the husband, who was hit by number of films made by a train while out walking Fred Fyles women that had entered by the tracks. The late Editor-in-Chief the festival during its 70 Roger Ebert gave the film year history, compared to his highest rating, saying 1,645 made by men over “There isn’t a shot in the his year’s Cannes the same time period. movie that’s not graceful Film Festival, Amid all these and pleasing.” which closed shocks, however, there Kore-eda’s real last month, saw a was another surprise breakthrough came in Ttimely focus on the issues that had a happier tone: 2004, with the release of of sexual harassment that Shoplifters, the 13th film Nobody Knows. Taking have dominated the film from Japanese director inspiration from the 1988 industry press over the Hirokazu Kore-eda, took Sugamo child abandon- last year. The discussion home the Palme d’Or, ment case, in which a reached a shocking marking the culmination media storm was created conclusion when actor of a twenty year-long when a group of children Asia Argento made a career in which Kore-eda were found living in a speech during the closing has delivered some of the Tokyo apartment after ceremony, accusing dis- best-crafted dramas of being abandoned by The cast of Our Little Sister // Sony Pictures Classics graced producer Harvey modern cinema. their mother nine months Weinstein of raping her Beginning his career earlier, Nobody Knows couple of years, often the family, probing at our Taking place over a at the festival back in in television, Kore-eda centres around four to critical acclaim. Film most basic relationships. single year, Our Little 1997, when she was 21 worked as an assistant children who are left to critics have often pointed Sister is a film about the years old. Argento called director for TV docu- fend for themselves. Lead out the debt he owes to gentle rhythms of life: the festival his ‘hunting mentaries, before making actor Yuya Yagira became Yasujiro Ozu, one of the “Kore-eda’s we follow the sisters as ground’. Elsewhere, the switch to film with a the youngest winner of greatest film directors they form a close bond, president of the jury series of documentaries the Cannes Best Actor of the twentieth century. dramas the seasons changing Cate Blanchett – who is in the early 1990s. 1995 Prize, for his portrayal Like Ozu, Kore-eda’s from winter to spring one of only four female saw the release of his first of Akira, the eldest child films often centre around explore the to summer; and as the presidents in the last 20 feature film, Maborosi, who becomes the de facto the theme of the family, push-pull of seasons change, the years – led 82 women which centred around a head of the family. or of relationships, gently food does too. Our Little in a protest up the set of widow trying to make From then on, Kore-eda exploring how we relate intimacy and Sister is a film in which red carpeted stairs. The sense of the death of her released a film every to others in the world cuisine plays a central around us; that push-pull emotion” part, bringing people of intimacy and emotion together and reflecting the that comes with living changing world around us a life closely meshed It is his 2015 film, Our – from making plum wine with others. Kore-eda’s Little Sister, however, at the height of summer, camerawork also conveys which remains by far my to bonding over whitebait a similar sense of stillness favourite Kore-eda film. on toast. It’s a work that as Ozu; often filming from It’s one of those films revels in the magic of the lower angles, Kore-eda that envelops you in a minutiae of everyday life. will meticulously frame warm hug, one where Shoplifters screened at his shots, often inter- you leave the cinema Cannes to critical acclaim, spersing them with what feeling a bit lighter and with Peter Bradshaw of became known in Ozu’s brighter about the world. The Guardian calling it “a work as ‘pillow shots’ – Based off a manga series, movie made up of delicate short clips of the world Our Little Sister tells the brushstrokes: details, around the characters, story of three grown-up moments, looks and identifying a sense of time sisters, Sachi, Yoshino, smiles.” With any luck, it and place. and Chika, who live in will be out in UK cinemas Since 2011, with Kamakura, a small city later this year, providing the release of I Wish, by the cost. Following the us with another dose of Kore-eda has become death of their father, from humanistic cinema from more and more well- whom they are estranged, the Japanese master. known to Western cine- their half-sister Suzu There has never been a ma-going audiences. Both from their father’s second better time to explore I Wish and the follow-up marriage comes to live Kore-eda’s extensive back Shoplifters has been picked up by Magnolia Pictures for its release // Cannes Film Festi- Like Father Like Son with them, shaking up catalogue, and discover val deal with the theme of their everyday routine. his magic for yourself. 25 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX

GAMES [email protected] E3 – The good, the bad, and the dull With E3 finished for another year, Games Editor Saad Ahmed gives his verdict on what to look out for soon.

GAMES would be the first online game in the Fallout series, Saad Ahmed with a map four times as Games Editor large as that from the previous version, and the ability to launch nuclear he thing gamers missiles to boot. You look forward can also own and wear to more than your own Fallout helmet. upcoming release Apart from this, they also Tdates or the Steam summer showcased other games sales is E3 – the Electronic like Wolfenstein, a Doom Entertainment Expo. A sequel, and Elder Scrolls showcase of everything VI, all with release dates to get hyped about and and ample information. enjoy for the future in Highlights – Fallout 76, the world of gaming. So, Elder Scrolls VI, Wolfen- without further ado, here’s stein our evaluation of the main conferences of E3. “Microsoft’s EA – Decent conference Right off the bat, EA made a course correction was where all in light of the whole loot the good stuff box fiasco from last year, which saw a wave of was, making a Forza 4 and The Last of Us Part II were two games that made a big impression at E3 // Microsoft/Sony international criticism accusing them of encour- change from all around, impressing us A game next time round. of the park in E3. Whether a huge impact at E3. The aging gambling. They ac- with their tenacity and Highlights – Just Cause you think the same is true main focus was on four knowledged their mistake, last year” honesty. Highlights – 4, Shadow of the Tomb this year depends on how games which are hugely and promised to try and Forza Horizon 4, Devil Raider, Kingdom Hearts 3 much you like Smash. The anticipated by fans, but work better on it from May Cry 5, Jump Force, reason being that Ninten- were known about well in now on. At least some Microsoft – Great Ori and the Will of the Ubisoft – Really Good do’s main focus was Super advance. It was essentially people have learnt their Wisps Smash Bros. Ultimate for a compact hour of trailers lessons. They when on to Ah, now this is where Long story short, the Switch. There were a and gameplay footage. It showcase Unravel 2 and the good stuff was. Mi- Square Enix – Poor Ubisoft’s conference lot of reveals, and much was nice, but truthfully Anthem, which were both crosoft’s conference was a was solid and enjoyable to like, such as all the only Ghost of Tsushima really impressive, and complete change from last Man, talk about so – there’s not a whole lot characters from previous needed such a boost, as talked about their future year’s more disappointing much hype followed by so of bad things you can versions, some new ones, little had been shown of plans with upcoming Star blowout. Maybe it was much disappoint. Many say about it. A number of and touched up aesthetics. the game beforehand. In Wars games: additions due to the Xbox One’s interesting things were games were highlighted Apart from Smash, more a strange move, Sony to the current Battlefront lacklustre performance expected here, from a new where ship battles seem games were highlighted actually revealed several 2 and a new game in the but the tactic they went rumoured Avengers game to be the new schtick for to maintain momentum other games, but only future. However, they kept for was to focus on a wide to the next Final Fantasy the future, and Beyond with the Switch like a to those watching the mum about Battlefield 5’s variety of games. And game fans were eagerly Good and Evil 2 provided new Fire Emblem and live stream of the event. economy, which, despite boy did they deliver: all waiting for. Instead, all breathtaking visuals in Fortnite! Sadly other With the last year being their assurances of saying games were shown with we got were two short just a trailer. Star Fox franchises like Pokémon incredibly successful for they understood the trailers, release dates, and teasers for The Quiet Man joining the Switch version and Animal Crossing were Sony, it’s possible they problem with loot boxes, a fair bit of inside infor- and Babylon’s Fall, which of Starlink was a nice barely touched upon and didn’t feel they needed seemed a bit disingenu- mation about the games barely highlighted any surprise and a good payoff it seems the 3DS is all but to give much and were ous. Highlights – Unravel themselves. A number of gameplay or release dates. of Ubisoft’s relationship forgotten now. Highlights probably saving their 2, Battlefield 5, Anthem Square Enix games were Square Enix basically shot with Nintendo. Highlights – Super Smash Bros. energy for (rumour has it) also showcased which themselves in the foot by – Beyond Good and Evil 2, Ultimate, Fire Emblem: a Playstation 5 down the Bethesda – Good was a nice treat. They giving a good majority Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Three Houses, Super line. Highlights – Death also talked about their of their upcoming stuff Skull and Bones Mario Party Stranding, The Last of Fallout 76 was front plans for the future, with to Microsoft, meaning Us Part II, Spider-Man, and centre at Bethesda’s a cloud gaming service, there was very little they Nintendo – Really Sony – OK Ghost of Tsushima conference; they went all and about all the studios could show themselves. Good out and provided lots of they’ve bought, and plan It was them at their most This is the second details, which was a blast to buy. A really well done complacent, and they Last year, these were the year in a row where to hear about. Fallout 76 performance by Microsoft really need to bring their guys who knocked it out Sony has failed to make 26 FELIX SEX SURVEY

It’s been a long time coming, but the Felix Sex Survey is finally here. Over the past few weeks, Imperial students, staff, and alumni filled out our giant questionnaire, divulging all sorts of personal details about their fantasies, desires, and experiences. This year an incredible 1,143 of you completed the survey, helping us build up a picture of how Imperial likes to get it on – from long distance relationships to sex work, STIs to masturbating, no stone was left unturned.

Want to find out which department is getting it on the most? Or what people feel is the optimum time to lose their virginity? Or whether or not couples who met at Imperial are happier than others? Look inside our eight-page pull-out to find out…

NOW WITH 60% Created by James Baxter & Fred Fyles MORE EMOJIS!!! Best sex For the second year running, Physics gets the participation medal – WELCOME TO THE they were the department most represented in the respondents. The songs? 1,143 people took our Sex Survey. Let’s start with a breakdown Departments of Life Sciences and Medicine followed close behind. At Toto –Africa of who they were… the Faculty level, however, the Faculty of Engineering came out top, with SEX SURVEY nearly half of repondants doing an engineering course. Marvin Gaye –Let’s Gender Identity Get It On 64.4% Male 33.3% Female 2.3% Silence Other Do you identify as the gender assigned to you at birth? FKA Twigs – ‘All of them’ 97.7% Yes 1.7% No Smash Mouth –All 0.6% Prefer not to say Star Age/Status Participation

Beyoncé –Rocket 88% Undergraduate 8.8% Postgraduate Ginuwine –Pony 2.1% Alumni 1.1% Staff Janelle Monáe – Sexuality Make Me Feel

D’Angelo –Spanish 78.8% Heterosexual 21.2% Non-heterosexual The Department of Life Sciences was judged to be the hottest Joint department, followed by Medicine and Bioengineering. Looking at distribution of votes, however, a clear pattern emerges: students were Let’s take a closer look at those who didn’t identify as heterosexual… ‘The entirety highly likely to say the department to which they belonged was the Of those who didn’t: hottest. This is particularly clear with the Departments of Medicine, Life of Rumours by Sciences, and Bioengineering. Students from the Department of Earth Fleetwood Mac’ Science and Engineering were also likely to rate themselves as attractive, despite coming near the middle of the rankings as a whole. 43% Bisexual 9% Pansexual 30% Homosexual 3% Asexual Tame Impala – Let 3% Prefer not to say While Life Sciences was the most attractive department, people It Happen 4% Queer thought Medicine was the department that had the most sex. Breaking 8% Other the votes down by department, there is less of a clear pattern, although Carly Rae Jepsen – all departments generally thought Medicine had the most sex. This is with How representative is our sample? with student life at Imperial – as recent governmental data, from 2016, Students from the exception of ESE, who – again – thought they themselves had the E.MO.TION departments were most sex. In terms of gender identity, the evidenced by election turnout – so reported 2% of the UK population asked to choose… proportions are roughly in line with perhaps they were less likely to take the identifies as lesbian, gay, or bisexual. In terms of the least sex, students felt Computing students were getting Spotify Playlist: the overall student split at Imperial. Sex Survey; or perhaps undergraduates This was doubled in the 16-24 age …which department the least action; nobody felt this more strongly than Computing students Sensual – ‘Basically However, undergraduates are vastly are just more comfortable with people group, but still falls well below the they though was the over-represented within the results: in poking around in their business… results of the Sex Survey, where over hottest themselves. Other departments which felt they should have more sex Craig David on reality, undergraduates only make up one in five respondents said they were included Maths, Aeronautics, and EEE repeat’ around 55% of the student population. Obtaining data on sexual identity something other than heterosexual. Postgraduates tend to be less engaged is notoriously difficult. The most ? Somewhat surprisingly, when students were asked how Imperial had affected Kanye West and their sex life, the responses were pretty even across the board. On the whole, Rick Ross – Devil in Are you a Virgin? The majority of students at people generally thought Imperial had affected their sex life positively. However, a New Dress 84.6% 15.4% Imperial have popped their this result is made less useful by the fact we didn’t put in a baseline measure – No Yes cherry, although there is still a whether students thought their sex life would be better at another university, for significant minority who have example. Childish Gambino not. –Redbone V On average, people seemed It could be that – since the majority of people become sexually active around IR satisfied with the age they the time they are going to university – sex lives would inevitably improve once G people arrived at university, irrespective of where they went. Nevertheless, there

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handjobs’ – what that individual considered as ‘long The number of respondents who eatin L g G cheated on their partner, or were ? distance’ was up to them. O I N cheated on by their partner, were N Men ‘I’m horny now, T roughly similar: 25.6% of respondents The majority of these relationships were G CHEA E had been cheated on at least once, while Women thanks’ 100-400km, a distance that made up 29.4% of D C LDRs. As you may expect from a student body ISTAN 25.9% had cheated on their partner at least once. 10.5% of respondents had cheated on their ‘It’s shocking how with a significant number of internationals, 27.6% of LDRs had a distance of over 3000km. partners more than once. nasty people are about trans and Overall, most respondants who had been in But what constitutes cheating, exactly? Men and women were found to have largely similar views on what non-binary people a long distance relationship said the distance had made them weaker as a couple. This was constitutes cheating, although there were some slight still’ most significant at the 100-400km range, differences. Both thought sexual contact and kissing were which, from London, would cover most places the most likely to be cheating, although men were slightly ‘This was extremely within England and Wales. more secure in their belief it always counted as cheating. thorough’ Interestingly, there was a positive correlation between distance and strength of relationship – the Women, by contrast, were slightly more likely to count social media chat, further away the individuals were away from each other, the more likely the respondant was to say thinking of other people, flirting with others, and chatting with people on ‘We should be more their relationship had been strengthened. Those who had a distance of >3000km – which would dating apps as cheating. sexually liberal’ essentially exclude much of Europe – were the most likely to say their relationship had been made stronger thanks to distance.

‘Too much A key question a lot of people in relationships may ponder is: would I be happier with someone else? Not according to Dating apps are now ubiquitous the results of our Survey. On average, over 70% of those in relationships said they were ‘very satisfied’ with their relationship, Googling of sex in modern society, but which ones and a further 22% said they were terminology…’ reign supreme? At Imperial, Tinder

‘somewhat satisfied’. A little over S is king, with 22% of those using 1% of people in relationships said A S dating apps making use of Tinder. ‘Bit P they were ‘very dissatisfied’ with T P The next most popular was Bumble, I heteronormative as A their current partner. S where in straight matchings the FA woman is the one who makes first C N usual’ The satisfaction levels would TIO contact, with 16% of the market share. Plenty o’Fish vary between departments: and OK Cupid were the next most popular, while Mechanical Engineering, Life Sciences, and Aeronautics were the ‘Sex is healthy’ Grindr, which arguably first started the dating app most likely to say they were very satisfied with their relationship, trend, only has 6% of the share. while no students from Earth Science and Engineering, Materials, or ‘Sex is really weird Aeronautics said they were dissatisfied. Students in Maths, Medicine, Those looking for love on the apps might have to if you think about and Bioengineering were the most likely to say they were dissatisfied. look out, however. 49% of those using apps did so for it’ easy or convenient sex, with a further 7% looking for Those who met their partner at Imperial were also more likely to be ‘lewd conversations’. 10% of users were looking for very satisfied than those who met their partner elsewhere: out of the friends, while only 32% of those using the apps were ‘Sex’ couples who met at Imperial, 74.9% were ‘very satisfied’, compared looking for a real relationship. to only 67.3% for thjose who met outside the Imperial bubble. LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

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0 1 Blackett 2 Huxley 3 Union Building We conclude the Sex Survey with a look at where the department who have the most sex. 4 Beit people have been getting down and dirty on and 5 Roderic Hill around campus. The Union Building was far and This question also highlighted how vague some 6 ACEX away the most popular place for people to have sex, people could be in answering their questions – a 7 Sherfield with a number of individuals reporting bumping vast number of people simply said they’d had sex 8 Library uglies in Metric. At Felix we try and stay reasonably in ‘toilet’ or ‘bathroom’, which others said they’d had 9 Wolfson sex-positive, but even we’ve gotta admit that’s nasty. sex in ‘halls’. A note to those taking the survey next year – be a bit more specific with where these places 10 Queen’s Lawn Blackett, Central Library, and City and Guilds are. 11 Queen’s Tower Building were all popular places for people to have 12 SAF sex, with some individuals reporting getting it on in Oh, and to the person who had sex in the Felix 13 RSM the Library group study rooms. It’s a bit of a loose Office – please tell me you cleaned up afterwards… 14 EEE interpretation of what ‘group study’ means. 15 Skempton § 16 CAGB The only non-South Kensington place recorded was the Reynolds Building, which is located on That concludes the Sex Survey for another year! 17 Ethos the Charing Cross campus. It was a surprisingly We hope you’ve enjoyed reading, and look forward 18 Princes Gardens unpopular venue, given students think medics are to seeing you in 2019! 19 Reynolds 20 ‘Toilet’ Student Support Fund

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ARTS [email protected] ARTS [email protected] Art on the Underground: contemporary tube maps, iconic designs, and giant eggs invaders…

Fame abuts too close to Beck returned to the Heather Phillipson’s egg-based installation at Pride for comfort. It is drawing board, making reminiscent of Simon small changes to the Gloucester Road station is only the latest in a series of Patterson’s fantastic 1992 design, and submitting piece The Great Bear, it again the next year; artistic interventions from Art on the Underground, which saw the tube lines this time the authorities become categories of tentatively went for it, which draws inspiration from the tube network’s history person – philosophers, paying Beck £10 for the scientists, explorers – and design, and producing a of iconic designs, from architecture to typography. the stations individuals small run of maps, which through history. were immediately popular Of course, all these among the general public. ARTS media, constructing dense work makes it hard to works are themselves Over the next thirty years tapestries of meaning ignore. drawing upon an iconic Beck produced maps for Fred Fyles that echo our hyperreal While the installation piece of urban design: the the London Underground, Editor-in-Chief modern life, in which is new, the ethos behind tube map itself. It can be which gradually increased we are bombarded with it is not. Artists have been difficult to imagine the in complexity as more visual information from making use of Gloucester tube map looking like lines were added, until egular users all sides. Road station since 2003, anything other than our an uncredited design led of Gloucester The installation, my when Cindy Sherman current design, but from Beck and his employers to Road tube sta- name is lettie eggsyrub, erected ten giant self-por- the foundation of the un- fall out; Beck continued tion may have takes up the entirety of traits; Sherman’s work derground through to the to produce maps in his Rnoticed a rather surreal the 80m platform, and plays with the question of 1930s, transit authorities own spare time, but none visitor cropping up last will occupy the space for gender and identity, with made use of a geographi- were produced, and he week. The disused rail an entire year. Phillipson Sherman donning nau- Mark Wallinger’s Labyrinth installation // Jack Gordon cally-accurate map, which died in 1974, at the age of platform, lying opposite describes the project as “a sea-inducing prosthetics resulted in a massive 72. It wasn’t until 1997, the District and Circle subterranean disturbance, to abstract herself into Gloucester Road platform artworks that, when col- Taking inspiration from crush in the centre, tube more than two decades line platforms, has been in which hyper-real, other personalities. Before have been organised by lected together, function and drawing on the same lines wriggling over each after his death, that his You can’t make an omelette… // GG Archard occupied by a dizzying creaturely simulations Phillipson’s work was Art on the Underground, as a miniature exhibition; techniques Mughal artists other like vipers, while contribution was formally array of eggs: eggs and analogue counterparts installed, the arches of the a branch of Transport Art on the Underground used to produce exquisite suburban lines stretched recognised on current commissioned Johnston take you from Italinante, design, it seems to have each station. In July 2016, coming out of shower dwarf passengers,” and platform framed photo- for London (TFL) which have commissioned some miniatures, Qureshi said out into emptiness. maps. Hugely influential, to develop a signature to art deco, to high-tech. crashed down on the less than a month after heads; eggs cracked open while commuters aren’t graphs by Trevor Paglen, uses the tube network as of the most influential his work would help It wasn’t until 1931 the London Underground font for the UERL to In total 71 stations North London suburb like the Brexit vote, Art on the by nails; fried eggs lying known for being that looking out over a bucolic a vast gallery space. The artists working today, in- create “a completely new that things started to get map is a work of art in use, giving them a clear have buildings which are a UFO, an allusion aided Underground launched flush against the floor of aware of the world around English landscape, whose programme was origi- cluding Rachel Whiteread, atmosphere and a positive cleaned up. Harry Beck, its own right, one that has brand identity. The result, listed, while a number of by the Tesla-coil-esque their #LondonIsOpen the platform, as dark and them – London etiquette horizon was punctured nally called Platform for Mona Hatoum, and Yayoi energy,” but it retains an an engineering draftsman been emulated by under- Johnston, was instantly others have entrances or statue planted on top. series, which invited grimy as a used frying demands a rigorous by squat geodesic domes Art, and was founded in Kusama, who have all unmistakable sense of in the London Under- ground networks across revolutionary: one of the exits within other listed artists to create works pan. It’s the project of refusal to focus anywhere housing US surveillance 2000, acquiring its current brought their artistic violence. The individual ground Signals Office, the world. first humanist san-serif buildings. Holden’s celebrating diversity and Heather Phillipson, a except your feet/your equipment. name in 2007; it’s headed trademarks – use of segments of flora are sur- realised commuters The tube map is just typefaces, it would later designs, many of which “The vision of inclusion showing how British artist who works phone/empty space – the All the projects that up by a team of curators negative space; textile rounded by small splashes didn’t necessarily care one example of the unified go on to inspire other de- are themselves listed, are London would remain a across a wide range of sheer scale of Phillipson’s have made use of the and producers, advised handiwork; psychedelic – the fly in the ointment about where the stations vision of the London signers, such as Eric Gill among the most iconic – the London global city, regardless of by a panel including those dots – to the iconic map. that calls to mind spots of were in proximity to one Underground network, and Frederic Goudy, and although Leslie Green’s the political climate. working in the arts and blood, and unsettles the another since they’d be which branched into all can be seen as a precursor beautiful oxblood tile-clad Underground Some may balk at a within TFL, as well as gentle image. travelling underground, areas of art and design. to fonts such as Tahoma or designs (see Gloucester network public institution making practicing artists. “Imran American artist Barbara losing their sense of This unique aspect of the Calibri. Road station) come a a political point in such Since its inception, the Kruger, whose work direction – instead, they transport network can be Pick’s influence didn’t close second. Holden’s branched into a way, but the history of Qureshi’s map programme has allowed interrogates the meaning needed a simple topolog- traced back to Frank Pick, just extend to visual work comes in two all areas of art the London Underground artists to create a number cover draws on of words and language, ical map, which would who started as publicity design, however – he main flavours: the first network shows it has of significant works, turned her attention to the tell them how to get from officer for the Under- was also commissioned can be seen in the 1926 and design” always been a quietly and changed the way the beautiful tube map cover back in one station to another, ground Electric Railways architect Charles Holden extension to the Northern radical force. Anything commuters and tourists 2010: her version takes and where they needed Company of London to design a number of un- Line, with huge plate that brings art down experience the world’s floral patterns a selection of the map to change lines. Taking (UERL), a precursor of derground stations, many glass murals featuring from the gallery space, oldest metro system. One around Charing Cross, inspiration from electrical the London Underground, of which remain iconic the Roundel embedded At the centre of Pick’s and into the realm of of the most recognisable of Mughal where the station names circuit diagrams, Beck before becoming its to this day. While other within a Portland stone mission was a desire to people’s lives, allowing and frequently-changing have been replaced with spaced out the stations so managing director. transit systems, such as facade, and a long awning bring good design to the it to become part of their interventions is the cover miniatures” totemic values. Waterloo they were equally distant Pick introduced a Paris’ Métro, were largely over the entranceway; average citizen, a project everyday environment, of the tube map booklets, becomes Vigilance; apart, and used only 90 or number of key design built within a compressed the second is found in that Art on the Under- is in itself political. And which can be picked up Holborn is renamed Joy; 45 degree angles within elements that would time frame, the London the later Piccadilly Line ground keeps up to this so, if you happen to go in the majority of station I’ve got a couple of and Oxford Circus takes the diagram. The first become emblematic of Underground was com- extension, with stations day. The variety of the tube through Gloucester Road ticket areas. Since 2003, favourites from the series: on Perfection. The result map, finished in 1931, has the tube, including the pleted over a number made of a series of inter- network was celebrated in station within the next they have been inviting a firstly, Imran Qureshi’sAll is a witty visual puzzle, a strong resemblance to iconic roundel – the red of decades, as new locking shapes – spheres, 2013, during its 150th an- year, make sure to check rotating roster of artists to Time Would be Perpetual that leads the viewer to the modern map we know ring struck through with generations and shifting cylinders, cuboids – that niversary, with Labyrinth, out Heather Phillipson’s design the cover, drawing Spring, which sees the Pa- make links between the today – it was easy to read, a blue bar – which he had demographics demanded would extend horizon- an installation by Mark eggs, and think about how on a range of influences, kistani-born artist drawing different stations: you can the extra details had been Edward Johnston develop more lines to be opened; tally and vertically. Of Wallinger, which takes it’s just another step in most noticeably the delicate, beautiful floral take a journey from Joy removed, and the lines from the previous clunky the result is a panoply of these, perhaps the most the form of 270 unique one of the largest public design of the map itself. patterns using the colours to Devotion to Compas- had an identifiable colour. design of a solid red station design, where a impressive is Southgate black and white maze art projects to have ever Barbara Kruger’s tube map cover // Art on the Underground The result is a series of of underground tube lines. sion, for example, while Originally rejected, circle in 1913. Pick also single train journey could station: circular in its tiles, with one installed at existed. 40 41 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1697

ARTS [email protected] ARTS [email protected] Young Vic – Fun Home summer, so make sure to whose black and white get in early for a chance to photographs share the Felix recommends: top picks for a summer of culture Cartoonist Alison see it. same arresting empathy Bechdel may be most as Lange’s work. Winner famous for the cinematic Fun Home runs 18­th of numerous awards, test that bears her name June to 1st September. she works primarily in As the days grow longer, the cultural offerings in the capital tend to dry up, with people electing to head outdoors – does a film have two Tickets from £10. Eastern Europe, turning female characters, who her lens onto a range rather than sit in the theatre. Rejoice, culture lovers – Felix is on hand with some of the top recommendations for talk to each other about Barbican – Dorothea of individuals as she something other than a Lange/Vanessa Win- conveys the fragility of a summer of art and culture. man? – but her graphic ship Double Bill both the landscape and the novel Fun Home, released individual. in 2006, is one of the best The Barbican Gallery memoirs to come out in follow on from their National Theatre – the noughties. It tells the sterling group photogra- The Lehman Trilogy story of Bechdel’s child- phy exhibition Unseen hood in Pennsylvania, Worlds, which looked at Lehman Brothers is and the tyrannical rule of those on the fringes of a name that, instanta- her father, a high school society, with a photograph- neously, conjures up English teacher and ic double bill. Dorothea the ghost of the 2008 funeral director. Bechdel Lange is best known for financial crash, whose explores not only her own her iconic photograph effects are still being felt burgeoning sexuality, but Migrant Mother, which around the world today. also that of her father, who came to be representative The images of the office was in the closet through- of the Great Depression workers, carrying out Bettrys Jones and Jack Laskey in As You Like It at the Globe // Tristam Kenton out his life. Through a re- in the USA, as well as their cardboard boxes on cursive structure, Bechdel her work for the Farm the morning of September run away from us. He will Palace promises to be The Clock is a 24-hour traces the events leading Security Administration 15th, 2008, have become be directing a stellar cast, an exhibition that will video, running on a loop, up to her father’s death, (FSA) documenting the iconic representations including Simon Russell “inspire reflection on in which Marclay has filtered through a rich, plight of sharecroppers. of the modern era. This Beale, while set designer the forms and themes compiled a wide range of literary layer of allusion She later went on to summer, the National Es Devlin (The Nether, of memory.” It features film and TV scenes fea- and reference. cover the internment of Theatre takes on the Chimerica) is to bring a over forty artists, includ- turing clocks, timepieces, This summer sees the Japanese-Americans story of the bank, and grand sense of scale to the ing the who’s who of or references to the time. musical version of the during the Second World how it came to exist, in production. contemporary art: Eddie The film tells the correct graphic novel, which won War – a shameful chapter their production of The Peake, Antony Gormley, time – so if you visit it at five Tony awards, includ- of American history. Lehman Trilogy, Stefano The Lehman Trilogy is Cerith Wyn Evans – the 2.30pm, the scenes will ing Best Musical, coming To both settings, Lange Massini’s sprawling, epic on at the National Theatre list goes on. The exhi- be showing clocks at that to London’s Young brought her remarkable production. Coming in at 4th July to 22nd September. bition also promises to exact minute. At once Vic. When it opened in humanistic eye, showing nearly four hours long, Tickets limited. be a highly-international simplistic and complex, Broadway in 2015, it the individuals behind the and told in three parts over affair, with exhibited the piece took over three was critically-acclaimed, mass tragedies. the course of an evening, White Cube – Memory artists ranging from Mona years to create, and won with The New York Times Her work is paired with Sam Mendes – director Palace Hatoum, whose evocative the Golden Lion at the calling its score a ‘master- Vanessa Winship, the crit- of Skyfall and American installations challenge our Venice Biennale when it Serpentine Pavilion 2018, designed by Frida Escobedo // Iwan Baan piece’. It’s sure to be one ically-renowned British Beauty – will be responsi- London is absolutely visions of the world, to He was exhibited. of the hottest tickets of the portrait photographer, ble for ensuring it doesn’t filled with independent Xiangyu, who explores the Previous iterations ARTS of shows and exhibitions bit of a risk when going of censorship in the world the Pavilion has become, of water and the ceiling, commercial galleries, contradictions inherent in of The Clock have seen might be a blessing in to see something. It’s all of theatre. New work by more than ever, the place changing subtly through- which often do individual modern industrial society. lengthy queues, but – with Fred Fyles disguise. Never fear – part of the charm of going Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, to be seen to be. This out the day. El Lissitzky’s or group shows of some the Tate Modern showing Editor-in-Chief Felix are here, to give you to the Globe, which is a Jude Christian, and Matt year, in its 18th iteration, ‘Proun’ artworks, which of the most interesting Memory Palace is on at it through until January – recommendations on all quintessentially summery Hartley will also be the commission has gone interrogate ideas of space contemporary artists the White Cube Bermond- there will be a long time the best cultural things to London activity. As usual, performed, while events to Frida Escobedo, a and perspective, have working today. All too sey and Mason’s Yard 11th for Londoners to catch it. here’s a strange do this summer, without groundling tickets – for completely unrelated to Mexican architect, who also been a key reference often, however, people July to 2nd September. Within the shots, Marclay paradox within breaking the bank: standing in the yard – are Shakespeare – such as the will hopefully create a point, with Escobedo avoid them, for fear Free admission builds up his own sense the London only £5 for most perfor- Alternative Miss World space that feels more hoping to create a “space they’ll stick out like a sore of rhythm, grouping cultural scene: Globe Summer Sea- mances, making the Globe competition – will be held intimate and reflective. of discovering” within the thumb. The White Cube Tate Modern – Chris- similar shots together Tas soon as summer hits, son one of the most accessible in the famous venue. At 39, Escobedo is the Pavilion. galleries have managed tian Marclay: The to manipulate the audi- with the days growing theatres in the UK. youngest architect to While visiting the to establish themselves as Clock ence’s emotions, creating longer, and the evenings Midsummer is when This year’s season The Globe’s Summer create a pavilion, and pavilion, you can also a sort of halfway house feelings of tension, stretching out before us to Shakespeare’s Globe has some classics from Season runs through to to has drawn her inspiration check out the exhibition between the tucked away, Sometimes, the idea drama, and tenderness. the horizon, theatres and really comes into its own. Shakespeare’s repertoire October. from a number of sources: of Christo and Jean- appointment-only com- for a work of art is so Once a month, the Tate galleries begin to close With the top of the theatre – Hamlet, Othello, Love’s the pavilion itself will be Claude’s massive sculp- mercial galleries and the brilliantly simplistic, you Modern will stay open all shop, using the summer open to the elements, the Labour’s Lost – but the Serpentine Pavilion constructed out of cheap- tural interventions within major blockbuster venues wonder why it hasn’t been night, giving cinephiles months to prepare months through from team are also putting ly-produced Mexican the urban landscape – like the Tate or Royal thought of before. This and art-lovers alike the their new seasons. It’s April to October are the on a series of talks and The Serpentine roof tiles, overlaid in previous projects included Academy. was surely the reaction chance to see the piece in unfortunate, since July only time the Globe can workshops exploring how Pavilion, which pops up a lattice structure; one wrapping the Reichstag in This summer sees to Christian Marclay’s all its glory. through to September is rely on weather clement Shakespeare continues to for a few months in front courtyard within the space fabric – on display in the them putting on one of installation piece The the period when most of enough to run perfor- be relevant to the modern of the Hyde Park gallery, is angled to line up with main gallery. their largest group shows Clock, which debuted The Clock is on 14th us have more time to go mances. Even then, the day. Discussions, perfor- has become a London the Greenwich Meridian, in recent memory, split at the White Cube in September 2018 to 20th ­ out and explore the city – notoriously temperamen- mances, and events will summer institution. As meaning visitors will get The Serpentine Pavil- between their two London London back in 2010, and January 2019. Admission although, as student loans tal British climate means look at race within Shake- Instagram and social to experience a play of lion runs from 15th June to galleries in Bermondsey returns to the UK for the free. begin to dry up, this lack you’ll always be taking a speare, as well as the idea media have exploded, light as it reflects off pools 7th October. Zubin Varla in rehearsals for Fun Home // Marc Brenner and St. James’s. Memory first time in seven years. 42 43 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1697

ARTS [email protected] ARTS [email protected] PLEASE DON’T TALK TO ME ABOUT ART… Lessons in Love and Violence: a big name production …show it to me – with over a thousand paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, and more at the Royal Academy’s fails to deliver 250th Summer Exhibition. George Benjamin’s conduction of his new opera on King Edward II hits the correct notes musically and presents a

ARTS of decisions. Curators stellar cast, but the plot leaves a sense of disappointment at what could have been a brilliant spectacle. SUMMER EXHIBITION give no special treatment to artists with name recognition or gallery ARTS a new adaptation, but representation. The result LESSONS IN LOVE still same core. A sort of Where? Royal Academy is a show that crowds AND VIOLENCE intellectual effort to keep When? Until 19th August the gallery walls like a the old art alive with new How Much? £18 (£16 with- tube station during bank pieces that will inevita- out donation) holiday: bustling, hot, bly fail every time they colourful, breathtaking. Where? Royal Opera House ignore the need to make Nicolas Baird Deeper into the exhibi- When? Ended 26th May real changes in what is Arts Writer tion, I found a small square being presented. History portrait of a dog posing João Baptista lectures and background by Vermeer’s Girl with Arts Writer story should not be an ow open for a Pearl Earring. Stuck exercise for the viewer, but its 250th con- on the wall next to it was something that everyone secutive year, an orange dot sticker that hy is it so is able to understand. the Summer meant it had been sold. hard to Hard-to-grasp dialogue, ExhibitionN at the Royal Nearly every piece in the write about confusing topics, and Academy of Arts still fills exhibition – from the most operas? undelivered lessons result its walls in the Salon-style expensive sculpture to the WThe Royal Opera House’s in an unfinished product of the late 18th century. cheapest print – is for sale. Lessons of Love and from the artists, not to be Each room is crammed Those interested can buy Violence left me with the confused with elevated from floor-to-ceiling with an official Summer Exhi- feeling there was some- culture. art – a smörgåsbord of bition List of Works for thing brilliant going on. sizes, styles, and materi- reference (“only £3.50, You could feel it in the als. Walking from room over by the reception sudden pauses, changes of “The opera to room feels like falling desk”). The booklet is motion, sharp minors, and down a rabbit hole. over 200 pages long and dark bursts of music. And is undone by I had almost adjusted contains only the name, strangely, an odd feeling to the neon blue walls of artist, material, and price Michael Landy RA, Closing Down Sale, Mixed media and audio // Michael Landy still haunts me. trying to keep the entrance room when of each work. The plot is all there. Barbara Hannigan as Isabel, Stéphane Degout as King and Gyula Orendt as Gaveston in Lessons in Love and Violence the best of a painting of a baby bird serious buying happens read ‘For Sale: Art Made references, inventions, filled with to-scale archi- You have a King who has // Stephen Cumiskey appeared in front of me, during this exclusive Now’. Even so, the show jokes, egos, beauty, and tectural models. Each was a lover, a wife who still both worlds: demanding in block “It’s show that “shopping period”. When feels fresh and exciting – quiet moments. A lonely delicately constructed, loves and wants to rescue good memories long after they face. This is one of The performances the modern letters: “PLEASE DON’T crowds the a piece can be produced a snapshot of the contem- twig looks down from just with tiny human figures him, commoners who leaving the theatre. Above my favourite scenes from should be acknowledged TALK TO ME ABOUT and sold in multiples – like porary art world’s easily below the ceiling. A large frozen inside. Around starve and die, and an “The opera all, it should serve the the play, and yet it still too, with a brilliant turn and the ART”. Nearby, a couple gallery walls prints and photographs packable, transportable, flattened bust of the Queen them, giants drifted by: adviser who can separate play, but the play should feels like something is from Barbara Hannigan as debated whether the price – more than one dot can sellable side. smiles warmly. The whole gallery visitors moving love and politics. Love starts in a not rely on it to keep the off with the plot, which Isabel, who made herself classical” of a painting was fair. like a tube be put up. Tucked away thing seems like a mess. from room to room. I and politics – an intense show alive. forgot to modernise the heard in the vast space, The man turned to the in a corner of a top floor Yet it talks to itself. thought of the bustle conflict between the two traditional In an attempt to characters’ dilemmas to displaying her soprano woman and said in a stage station during gallery hung a framed US “The show is A print of a mountain in outside, of Oxford Street different concepts that manner, but modernise the old tale of the modern staging. nuances. Peter Hoare, With all that said, I do whisper, “If you’d bought dollar bill with the word one of the later galleries and Piccadilly Circus. rarely enter into our lives, Edward II, who died from In addition to this, the as Mortimer, and Gyula not think operas fail the one of her paintings a bank holiday: “TRASH” printed on it in a snapshot reminded me of a tiny How many people were but fight it out in people is let down love and failed miserably script lacks the essential Orendt, as Gaveston, had average arts-enthusiast. decade ago, you could’ve violent orange. It already painting of a house I walking through London who owe us guidance. in his role as monarch, the flow in verse that is sorely voices which matched They can be enjoyable had it for only five bustling, hot, had 83 dots. of the had seen high up in the right then? I imagined The King – referred to thanks to a adaptation fell short and needed in a play of this their perfectionist stage and funny, with phi- thousand pounds.” She colourful, For a show whose contemporary entrance room. Retracing the city shrunken down as only this throughout delivered a classic tale in a expense and production. performances, with their lanthropists financing quickly replied, “Well, subtitle is ‘Art Made my steps through several to the size of a dollhouse. the show – falls in love poor libretto” confusing way. A conflict This is not entirely to smooth and distinctive productions ensuring the you might be able to say breathtaking” Now’, the RA’s Summer art world’s galleries, I noticed more Tiny people walk through with Gaveston, one of of modern staging and blame to the writer alone, voices able to occupy art is continually elevated that about anyone here ten Exhibition showcases sur- pieces – sculptures, pho- each carefully constructed the nobles he praises and historical plotting clashes but more generally, to the physical space. regardless of cultural years from now!” prisingly few new media easily tographs, a video – that model building and some provides for, even at the start for a usual opera seria, in an unpleasant way for communication between In the end, Lessons shifts. Lessons in Love The exhibition always On opening day, more and digital works. With had a family resemblance. of them look up in rooms expense of his people. if it were not for the poor the viewer. The reality of composition and lyrics. in Love and Violence and Violence missed a features several famous than half of the exhibi- the exception of a handful packable, Colours call to colours filled with microscopic This reckless behaviour libretto following this call the scenes simply do not Not everything is a was undone by a terrible bigger point than that. It and up-and-coming artists tion’s 1,351 works showed of videos and a moderate sellable side” across galleries. A robin’s paintings. I suddenly worries advisor Mortimer, to action. This is not to match the main themes disappointment. The problem when adapting failed to create a package from the UK and abroad, off at least one dot. The selection of sculptures and egg blue sounds out first zoomed back to reality who advises him to stop blame the composer, or approached. This clash music underlying the play old pieces into modern of musical melody and but the joy of the show Royal Academy invites architectural models, most in paint, then echoes back as a woman popped out this relationship, and ends actors’ performances; in is more distinctly seen in shows moments of hidden styles: a self-absorbed theatrical drama that line is its open submission buyers from past years of the work on display is From abstract in ink and cloth and metal of a tunnel built into up exiled from the palace opera, music should be a the second scene when brilliance, with mystical ambition to keep the best up in only the best master- process. Any artist can to preview the exhibition two-dimensional – paint- geometry to portraits, still from four different rooms. the display in front of – it’s a decision which sets tool to enhance the specta- Mortimer brings poor moments conducted with of both worlds, without pieced of human talent. submit work, and more in the weeks leading up ings, prints, photographs, life to landscapes, text I wandered back (for me. “Wow”, she said a train of consequences, cle, transforming a regular commoners to the palace no powerful notes or usual changing anything that than 4,000 pieces are to the grand opening, so drawings, mixed media. to textures, each room the third? The fourth breathlessly. “Welcome to ending up tearing his play into a message that to confront the queen, use of noise and easy actually brings something chosen for the final round a concentrated burst of Maybe the subtitle should jams together a mix of time?) through a gallery wonderland!” family apart. A traditional sinks in and leaves us with Isabel, with the problems emotional chords. new. An old story, with 44 45 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1697

ARTS [email protected] ARTS [email protected] Art anyone? Frida Kahlo: making an icon into a caricature? Summer can be a great time to educate yourself about art history, using all the resources London has to offer. Arts A new exhibition at the V&A promises to reveal an intimate side to the artist. While her self-portraits and Writer Maria Zagorulko takes you through some key movements to look out for. photographs prove revealing, Arts Writer Simran Kukran argues that the exhibition as a whole leaves a lot to be desired. ARTS historical or religious cherished by Raphael, of nature using generous probably standing in front yet visible brush strokes figures and events in two Titian, and Michelange- brush strokes and colours of a beautiful example of that gave a feeling of Maria Zagorulko dimensions with a blue- lo – pioneers of this art like red, lead tin yellow, Classicism. Some ‘A* tenderness and calmness. ARTS wear and tear mean it Arts Writer black colour scheme. At movement. and beige. students’ of that art era This dreamy art style FRIDA KAHLO: was well loved – “her times, Gothic art lacks Where to see the style Where to see the style were: Nicolas Poussin, captures the effects of MAKING HERSELF UP wardrobe was not staged happiness and placidity, in London: Bacchus and in London: Samson and Charles le Brun, and Karl light by manipulating but a second skin” – but is he number of which links back to Ariadne – Titian; Saint Delilah – Peter Paul Bryullov. palettes that include pure, this really so surprising? art styles is distress within European Catherine of Alexandria Rubens; The Toilet of Where to see the style intense colours like blue, Kahlo is an icon, yes – but enormous, if not society during that period. – Raphael; both at the Venus – Diego Velásquez; in London: A Baccha- white, and red. To enjoy Where? The V&A she is not just a character infinite. With Where to see the style National Gallery both at the National nalian Revel before a Impressionist pieces, one When? 16th­ June – 4th for a Halloween costume. Texams over, it might be in London: Palace of Gallery Term – Nicolas Poussin simply needs to find the November Is it so shocking her time to undertake some Westminster, Robert Baroque at the National Gallery; most romantic and hazy How Much? £15; £13 clothes were worn and cultural education and Lewis Roumieu building Classicism Regency Classicism art section in the gallery. students lived-in? explore at least a few. The at 33-35 Eastcheap (both This extravagant art section at V&A Where to see the style Kahlo’s makeup is following chronological Gothic Revival) stream began to dominate The art world of the in London: Water-Lilies also displayed, with some guide explains the most art workshops during 17th- 17th-18th century soon Realism – Claude Monet at the Simran Kukran kohl used to darken her profound and impactful Renaissance 18th centuries. The exact shifted from the pompous Tate Modern; The Skiff – Arts Writer distinctive eyebrows still art streams found in translation of barocco baroque towards more Realism as an art Pierre-Auguste Renoir at in its original packaging. London’s numerous As the time went by, is ‘a pearl of non-ideal realistic styles like movement stems from the National Gallery rida Kahlo’s is The curator notes Kahlo galleries. religious and mytholog- form’. Society of that Classicism. Architects, the 19th century, resulting a feminist icon. “constructed” her identity ical motives continued period saw excellence sculptors, and artists drew in its collection being Modern Her eyebrows, though her belongings Gothic to captivate the minds of in exaggerated luxury their attention to rational the largest in the world. jewellery, and but, however beautiful, European artists of the of textures, forms and harmony between colour A characteristic property Significant historical Fclothes are distinctly they do not give nearly a The characteristic style 14th-16th century. They colours. Baroque paint- and form, striving to of the movement was the events in 20th century recognisable through her fraction of the insight her of the 12th-15th century started to explore colour ings have an extremely make their pieces immac- reflection of critical social promoted a rapid change self-portraits, and Kahlo expressive paintings do. features metaphorical rep- and shape through images dynamic character, over- ulate. They saw beauty and economic issues of values in society is revered for challenging Perhaps her clothing resentations of medieval of Christ and Madonna filled with emotions and in linearity, symmetry, where the artist often causing art workshops gender norms and reject- and belongings have a reality. The Gothic style in natural settings. One light. Artists of that time and a restrained colour conveys their opinion, to produce pieces that ing colonial influences as different feel displayed is famous for its portraits can distinguish Renais- like Caravaggio, Rubens, palette full of undertones. giving an appraisal on displayed a unique aura. a proud Mexican commu- in her Mexico City home, with straight, distinct lines sance paintings by the and Velásquez represented If you walk into a gallery the topic. Hence in the Artists moved on from nist. This is the first time but something in the V&A and simplistic background dominance of light and the world through hyper- and see a piece looking spotlight are often scenes usual eclecticism and the artwork, medication, feels uncomfortable and themes. Most Gothic a largely romanticised bolic, large-scale shapes like it was made by an from life of the working began to explore dreams, clothing, and other person- doesn’t sit quite right. paintings tend to represent colour palette, loved and showing the magnificence A* student, then you are class both in towns and symbolism, and subjec- al belongings have been Frida Kahlo with Olmec figurine, 1939 // Nickolas Muray Photo Archives Leaving the exhibition the countryside. This led tive experiences. The displayed outside of her continues in this vein – to the use of dark, earthy characteristic modernist home on the outskirts of and, while the unibrow most famously in The an important part of giftshop tote bags and palettes. approach is full of floral Mexico City, now known “It is striking is strong, facial hair is Broken Column (1944). Kahlo’s identity, it was fridge magnets are deco- Where to see the style ornaments, asymmetrical as the Museum of Frida barely visible. Aside from There is only a small explored in her own terms rated with her image, and in London: The execution forms, and complex Kahlo. At the time of her to see actual being beautiful works photo of the work visible, in her artwork; to force you can purchase floral of Maximilian – Edouard decorations. A modern death, Kahlo instructed in their own right, the but Kahlo’s prosthetic leg this level of exposure headdresses inspired by Manet; Still Life with colour palette included her husband to seal off her photographs photographs contextualise sits in a large mirrored seems insensitive. her look. There is also Apples and a Pomegran- all parts of the colour bathroom. Only in 2004 of Kahlo the artworks aiding inter- case in the middle of a Kahlo was a proud Mexican hot sauce on ate – Gustave Courbet; spectrum and was used were its contents revealed. pretation. The balance is dimly lit room with eerie communist and Mexican the shelves. It is unclear both at the National by famous modernists Most of the contents of alongside her skewed, however, and it music playing. This feels patriot, even changing her what the purpose of Gallery such as Paul Gauguin, this exhibition were found feels the powerful artwork sensationalist, almost birthyear of 1907 to 1910, this is, but whatever the Gustav Klimt, and Edvard in this way. The V&A self-portraits” that should be taking perverse. It is as if her that of the Mexican Rev- purpose, it does not seem Impressionism Munch. As time went by, exhibition was curated centre stage is stuck in the pain is being fetishized. olution. Her passion was to have been achieved. the Modern style diverged in partnership with the background. Her orthopaedic corsets reflected in her clothing; Out in the garden there Born in 1860s France, into Cubism, Fauvism, Museum and Frida Kahlo there are photographs of Kahlo suffered from are also on display. The she wore pre-colonial is a very Instagrammable Impressionism was Futurism, and Surrealism Foundation. It has been Kahlo as a young girl, polio as a child, and a fact that Kahlo decorated, traditional Mexican dress wire sculpture topped considered a complete which appealed to wider advertised as “intimate”, followed by her earliest traffic accident at 18 left almost graffitied, these to make an empowered with flowers, with a contrast to Realism. audiences and are consid- seeking to sensitively works. It is striking to her disabled with chronic means their display as statement. There are hashtag competition to Instead of expressing all ered separate art move- display another side of the see actual photographs pain. Although she aspired works of art is less un- photos of her family win a frozen margarita. details of the surrounding ments within themselves. artist, but crosses the line of Kahlo alongside her to be a doctor, she never comfortable. Particularly members wearing similar The exhibition sought to world, as done by Realists, Where to see the style into blunt and invasive. self-portraits. Although fully recovered and did moving is a foetus painted clothing, and she was reveal Kahlo’s identity in Impressionists like Degas, in London: Faa Iheihe The focus does not seem clearly recognisable, not return to education. onto the corset following proud of her matriarchal an intimate way, but the Renoir, and Monet were – Paul Gauguin at the to be on Kahlo’s artwork, in her self-portraits her She began painting while a termination for health heritage. The clothing has result is more like cari- keen to embody the real National Gallery; Frida but instead on her clothing features look stronger bedridden. The details of reasons. Her medication been beautifully restored cature. While the style of world through gener- Kahlo: Making Her Self and belongings. – harsh and more mas- her health issues were kept is displayed alongside and displayed. Captions delivery is not special, the ating emotion within Up exhibition at V&A The exhibition ad- culine, with prominent private, but her pain and letters appealing for proudly highlight the fact exhibition is worth going the observer. This was dresses Kahlo’s entire facial hair. In photographs disability was explored doctor’s appointments. the clothing’s cigarette to see for Kahlo’s extraor- From Titian to Renoir – spot the difference // CC achieved by using soft life. In the first room her face shape is softer regularly in her artwork, While her disability was burns and mending after dinary paintings alone. 46 47 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX

ARTS [email protected] Thomas Cole – Will we lose our Eden? In the first UK exhibition dedicated to the great American landscape artist, Arts Writer Helen Money-Kyrle is awestruck at the grandness Cole’s paintings and poignancy of environmental message.

ARTS formidable work of nature THOMAS COLE: EDEN that feels more permanent TO EMPIRE than anything humans could build. Having established himself as an artist in Where? National Gallery America, Cole traveled When? Until 7th October to England and Italy How Much? £10 Monday (1829-1831), where he – Friday; £12 Saturday and saw much art which Sunday inspired him and met with a number of influential Helen Monry-Kyrle artists, including JMW Arts Writer Turner. Cole was a fan of Turner’s early work, evi- denced by his borrowing orn in 1801 of the dramatic clouds during the height in Turner’s Snow Storm of the Industrial for his greatest work The Revolution, Course of Empire. Being BThomas Cole was to largely self-taught up to become one of the great- this point, he studied fine est landscape painters in arts in Italy, and exper- American history. Having imented with new tech- grown up in Lancashire, niques such as that of oil England, he moved to sketches, which he took America with his family with him back to America The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire, Thomas Cole 1835–6 // Collection of The New-York Historical Society, at the age of seventeen, and shared with other New York / Digital image created by Oppenheimer Editions determined to become a artists, in what was to be painter. Still well-known later dubbed the Hudson across the entire scene, probable influences from most iconic paintings, The to environmental policies in America, he was highly River School movement. giving the castle a an imperial London and Oxbow, contrasts the wil- in America, there was popular at the time, and mystical, haunting feel. his visits to ancient ruins derness and farmed land, a poignant relevance to his awe-inspiring depic- The painting shows the in Italy, Cole’s series was whilst River in the Cat- his work that I had not tions of the American “Entering the decline of what was once a met with critical success skills is thought to be the expected. wilderness have continued great manmade structure, and is truly stunning. first landscape painting As I walked out onto to influence succeeding exhibition, I with nature reclaiming to depict a railroad. Trafalgar Square, I felt an generations of artists and can see why the crumbling building for Having spent much of unexpected camaraderie the public alike. itself. This rise and fall is “Cole watched his career painting the with Cole. He too visited Entering the exhibition, Cole’s early one that resonated with wild landscapes around the National Gallery, when I can see why his early Cole, forming a running the landscapes the Hudson River, Cole it was just five years old, works were, and still are, works are still theme through much of opposed the destruction of and would have wandered so admired. Dramatic and his work. he loved the American wilderness, around the same rooms. romantic, Cole’s View so admired” His greatest series, The tamed to in particular rejecting the His appreciation for the of the Round-Top in the Course of an Empire, government’s expansion- beauty of nature, and his Catskill Mountain places depicts the rise and fall make way ist plans under President warnings of the cost of us on the top of a mountain As the exhibition trans- of a civilisation, with Andrew Jackson. unchecked environmental as we look on towards ports us chronologically each scene set in the same for railroads, Sadly, though Cole’s policies on the natural another mountain, the through his life and work, imaginary location with techniques and style world have gained new wild and untouched land- so too we see pieces by its distinctive mountain factories, and went on to inspire a next relevance as we become scape stretching far into those that inspired him. I peak. As time passes we farmland” generation of artists, his increasingly aware of the the distance. Close to us, was particularly taken by see humans tame the land, response to society’s effects of climate change, a couple of windswept Hadleigh Castle by Con- later building a grand responsibility to the envi- and our impact on the and gnarly trees add to stable, which caught my empire, before greed His work celebrates his ronment were largely lost. planet. Popular then, and the sense of depth of the attention just as it caught causes the destruction of love of the natural world, Increasingly, artists cham- popular now – his work painting, making the that of the young Cole. the city in a cruel war. but having lived through pioned industrialisation will continue to be appre- mountain and distant river The ruined castle is set in a Finally, we watch as the industrial revolution, through their work, such ciated in years to come. feel far away, as wispy rugged, coastal landscape; nature reclaims the land- Cole watched as the as in Durand’s Progress Exhibition organised clouds make us realise the dark colours used for scape for herself, leaving landscapes he so loved (1853), commissioned by the National Gallery, how high up we must the scenery contrasting us with a last, peaceful were tamed to make way by a railroad executive. London and the Metropol- be. We are left in awe of with an almost obsessive image of just civilisation’s for railroads, factories, However, given the recent itan Museum of Art, New this huge mountain; a array of white highlights remnants left behind. With and farmland. One of his tumultuous changes made York. 48 FELIX ISSUE 1697

BOOKS [email protected] The Iliac Crest – An unsettling tale of disappearance and mystery This surreal novel from Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza explores the nature of boundaries, in a haunted tale that sticks in the imagination.

violence, of power, of sweeping the unnamed horror. Mexican author country: “mechanisms Cristina Rivera Garza triggering the disease vary expertly mines this deep quite a bit – a greater or seam of the uncanny in lesser degree of violence, her short novel The Iliac more or less isolation, a Crest, first published in little or a lot of silence – Spanish in 2002, and now but the common element arriving in English with among all of them is a translation by Sarah contact.” Booker. Drawing on This idea of being disap- the boundaries between peared has a long history, existence and absence, particularly in Latin and gender lines, and the Southern America, where fluid nature of borders, regimes like Pinochet’s BOOKS Rivera Garza has weaved would regularly liquidate THE ILIAC CREST a darkly-unsettling tale, political opponents. by Cristina Rivera Garza which – though short – While at the time of leaves a lasting impact on writing Rivera Garza was And Other Stories. 136 pp. the reader. undoubtedly referencing the widely-publicised Fred Fyles femicides occurring in Editor-in-Chief “Rivera Garza Ciudad Juárez, today they evoke most strongly inci- has weaved dents like the 2014 Iguala Crosses marking the site where the corpses of eight women were found in Ciudad n literature, disap- mass kidnapping, during Juárez in 1996 // Wikimedia pearance tends to be a darkly- which 43 students were a primarily active unsettling tale, disappeared. book takes place in an plane. have the means to describe phenomenon, with The disappeared uncertain geography – Rivera Garza also their own experiences on Iindividuals making the which leaves a Dávilla nurses the other references are made to a powerfully writes about this earth.” The word, for choice to leave their woman back to health, and ‘North City’ and a ‘South the force language, and its Rivera Garza, is both a family and friends behind. lasting impact the two begin conspiring City’, between which creation, can have. Faced liberation and a form of While it is not necessarily together in an unknown the hospital seems to be power, which can both lift a consensual act – ‘dis- on the reader” language, leaving the located, abutting a wide up and oppress. appear’ implies people narrator helpless – “I open sea. The narrator “Not only the Late in the novel, are left behind, who are could do nothing before describes it as “the end of the narrator speaks of often searching for the The book centres on an their language. I could not the world…this threshold terrain of the how staff at the hospital missing individual – the unnamed narrator, living infiltrate it.” They ask him where one state ended describe dying individuals person who disappears in a home by the sea, who to search the hospital’s and the next was unable earth, but as ‘patients’: “We dealt generally does so of their works at a hospital for the records for a mysterious to begin.” The terrain of the terrain with people to whom we own accord; from Gillian dying, which he describes patient from the past, the earth is not the only hadn’t yet found a suffi- Flynn’s Gone Girl through as “nothing more than which could help them uncertain aspect; the of the body ciently technical or neutral to Alice Munro’s brilliant a cemetery with open identify a lost manuscript terrain of the body, and way to describe, without trio of short stories in tombs.” One rainy night of Dávilla’s. of gender, also proves to also proves the weight of conscience, her Runaway collection, he receives a visit from Rivera Garza evokes be malleable, with Rivera the underlying truth about literature is peppered with two women: one is a a sense of Kafkaesque Garza exploring ambigu- malleable” our position: we were these tales of voluntary figure from his past, struck nightmare in the hospital ities in identity skillfully, not doctors, but more or flight. down by a fever, while the sequences, while also although certain linguistic less efficient guardians But then there is the other is Mexican author reminding me of the cool, differences between with his interlocutors’ of death.” This sense of phenomenon of disap- Amparo Dávilla, known clear horror of Shirley Spanish and English unfamiliar speech, the horror lurking behind pearance as a passive for her gothic works which Jackson’s best work. limit this exploration narrator ends up feeling language infiltrates The phenomenon, which takes dwell on the fantastic and What sets Rivera somewhat. Those who “as if I were inside a Iliac Crest; it pervades on a greater sense of sinister. This Dávilla has Garza’s novel apart from are disappeared live “with parenthesis in a sentence deep into the bones of darkness: the individual been ‘disappeared’ – the other books which deal one foot in the grave and written in an unknown Rivera Garza’s words, does not ‘disappear’, but real-life Dávilla is alive with similar moods of the other on terrain that language.” The manu- settling deep into the very rather they ‘are disap- and well – which Rivera isolation and fear is the held only a remote resem- script of Dávilla’s must marrow of the novel. peared’. Implicit within Garza describes as a form way she explores the blance to life”, existing be found otherwise her this act is the notion of of physical contagion idea of boundaries. The in some kind of ethereal “young followers won’t 49 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1697

BOOKS [email protected] BOOKS [email protected] t ane arc C Venus as a Bear by Vahni Capildeo Felix recommends – reading for summer days // Jingjie Cheng and Fred Fyles take you through their books for the perfect summer day, as well as brand-new inner of the 2016 Forward Prize Oxford, to criss-crossing the British Isles, Capildeo for Poetry, the prolific Trinidadian- draws on the life of the non-human world, and titles for you to check out over the break! British poet Vahni Capildeo explores our affinities with things. Many of the published her eighth poetry poems in this collection are short, exploring Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Wcollection earlier this year. Venus as a Bear is about objects of different times, places and origins. objects and the natural world, putting them at Capildeo does not shy away from Romantic n irginia Woolf’s most well-known work bird swooping through London, creating an iu g the centre and delicately describing how humans anthropomorphism, because stripping objects n e crackles with a vibrant energy and zest. incredibly sense of lightness. At the same time, P / and humanity revolve around objects. From of our human projections is so difficult. Capildeo / Set on a ‘Wednesday in mid-June’, it Woolf explores a number of significant themes, remains one of the best portrayals of such as the nature of temporal reality and the waiting for lambing at a friend’s farm, to a tour embraces it instead – with love, sensitivity, and VLondon in the early summer, full of the vibrant treatment of mental illness (something Woolf with poets around the Ashmolean Museum in wit. -JC optimism that characterises long days in the city. herself had experience of), as well as a radically th Taking place over the course of a single day, Mrs daring look at sexuality and sapphism. 20 June r Crudo by Olivia Laing ado Pic Dalloway is propelled along with a fierce internal is ‘Dalloway Day’, and I recommend setting it // motion, taking on a vast range of viewpoints and aside to read this brilliant novel, ideally in the ver the course of three works of non- her debut novel. Set over the horrific summer ideas. garden, with a gentle breeze blowing through fiction, Olivia Laing has established of 2017, when Trump was (and is) edging us all Woolf’s prose is a vivid stream of consciousness the pages. – FF herself as one of the most important towards nuclear war, Britain was (and is) trapped that skips from character to character, like a vast writers working today, describing under the weight of Brexit, and the world seemed Oindividuals ranging from Virginia Woolf to Andy to be ending all around us, Crudo shows us life To be a Machine by Mark O’Connell Warhol with a sense of beauty and wonderful through the eyes of Kathy, a writer about to take // G pathos. It is difficult, for me, to think of a more her first steps into her forties. It’s released in ran ta generous writer than Laing, who always treats bookstores on 28th June, and I’ve already marked often find that when summer rolls along, and condition, to transform humans into something her subjects with the respect and attention they it down in my diary – so should you. –FF we, as students, get to take a break, it is a completely different. Or rather, to improve deserve. This summer sees the release of Crudo, good time to think about where we are going. humans in various aspects to make us better than These ruminations inevitably lead to thoughts the flesh-and-bones animals that we are. These n gui Isurrounding mortality, the transience of life, and ideas range from isolated body enhancements en Last Stories by William Trevor P // its fragility. Perhaps, while we contemplate these to people who believe that technology can ew recent writers can claim to have as impersonal, precise writing, Trevor has been called ideas, it is worth checking out Mark O’Connell’s help us solve the problem of death. O’Connell much influence on the short story form as a virtuoso of the short story. Most notably, his candid but thorough exploration of the writes about the movement’s philosophical and as the late Irish writer William Trevor, who opening sentences are spare and mundane, yet transhumanism movement. Winner of this year’s scientific roots, key players, and possible futures. died in 2016. Published posthumously, his one can see the magnetic draw of something like Wellcome Book Prize, To Be a Machine is the first Amid the optimism is, of course, the question of Faptly titled final collection Last Stories is in stark “‘Yes?’ Olivia says on the answering system when full-length book on the topic. Transhumanism ethics, and to some, these ideas should remain defiance of Martin Amis’ worry that a writer in old the doorbell rings in the middle of ‘The Return of is science fiction come true – an attempt to use in the realm of dystopian films. Pick up this book age will naturally go slack. The New York Times the Thin Man’”. Limited by their brevity, a good technology to fundamentally alter the human over summer and decide for yourself! – JC described Trevor’s last collection as ‘seemingly short story describes complex relationships and quiet but ultimately volcanic’, full of stories that situations in snapshots. For Trevor, they can be The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion are simply told but cut deep. Known for his described in one sentence. – JC

es, I am aware a book about deep loss events of her husband’s death. It’s an incredibly er rp and a journey through grief might not moving portrayal of the extreme loneliness of The Waterfront Journals by David Wojnarowicz a ess H Pr / la / be the first thing that comes to mind grief, as well as a brilliant tribute to the life she su in en when you think of what you might and Dunne built together. Didion’s prose style is P n an era of Amazon drones and book-sellers The Waterfront Journals should be a collection / Ywant to take with you on the beach, but hear me instantly recognisable – she occupies a certain / closing up shop, it’s up to independent that fizzles with energy and exuberance, one out. The Year of Magical Thinking is Joan Didion’s middle distance, cool and detached, located publishers to keep us alive. Peninsula Press is that explores the underbelly of American life by account of the year following the death of her halfway between the investigative reporter and one such an imprint. Established little over six giving voice to those living in its shadows. Taking husband, the novelist John Gregory Dunne, who the unreliable narrator. While her earlier essay Imonths ago, it’s already put out three essay books, on hustlers and addicts, hoboes and runaways, died suddenly in 2003: “Life changes fast. Life work might be more evocative of the Californian and this summer will publish The Waterfront The Waterfront Journals are expected to provide changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner dispatches for which she is known, The Year of Journals, a collection of short fictions by the a much-needed portrayal of America in the latter and life as you know it ends.” Magical Thinking has a sense of weightlessness late artist David Wojnarowicz. If Wojnarowicz’s half of the 20th century. – FF Over the course of the year, Didion explores that I always associated with long summer memoir Close to the Knives is anything to go by, her reaction to grief, and continually replays the evenings, when time blurs into nothingness. – FF 50 51 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX

BOOKS [email protected] Jennifer Tseng brings a freshness to well-worn tropes in this engaging debut Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness benefits from a lyrical writing style, and a twist on the near-exhausted story of forbidden love.

towards her lover. Mayumi the way children glance she is not a part of it. In the well-known plot of never named: if a charac- does not shy away from at their parents before that sense, her maternal forbidden love. Mayumi’s ter’s most basic form of deconstructing this rela- undertaking some new instincts overpower her friendship with the boy’s identity is not known, it tionship in her endeavours challenge, and, without selfish desires as a lover. mother added another makes the reader question to come to terms with missing a beat, he winked dimension to the story. their very existence. At this incomprehensible at me fatherlike.” His mother clearly plays a times, the implications attraction; is it his youth, The novel is broken “The novel dominant role in his life, of the parental nature of her stagnant marriage, or down into four main and through their interac- the relationship were too the boy himself? parts, following the four takes on tions, Mayumi can glean heavy-handed; the novel seasons. The affair begins more about him than he would have benefited in the winter, with the unexplored is willing to share. On the from a more subtle por- “Tseng’s long nights offering some territories other hand, Mayumi is trayal of the evolution of refuge to their secret. As tormented by her guilt of the relationship and hence writing is the start of summer grows in the well- “corrupting” the woman’s the role of the ‘parent’, nearer, however, Mayumi son, while maintaining a trusting in the reader’s BOOKS poetic, using is anxious about what the known plot convincing façade when ability to make these MAYUMI AND THE SEA the symbolism future holds; he will soon of forbidden in her company. connections on their own. OF HAPPINESS graduate and start thinking Mayumi never once Nevertheless, Tseng’s by Jennifer Tseng of the island of a life beyond the small love” mentions her lover’s lyrical writing style, island. He has his whole name; the reason for this interesting take, and twist Europa Editions. 272 pp. the two inhabit life ahead of him, and she is gleaned towards the on a nearly-exhausted plot knows she can’t hold him I thoroughly enjoyed final pages. In that respect, in this debut novel already Bayan Al-Bulushi to describe back. In fact, she is excited this novel. I did not it is similar to Daphne du has me waiting impatient- Books Writer Mayumi’s to witness his journey of expect it to take on Maurier’s Rebecca, in ly for her next work. growth even if it means unexplored territories to which the protagonist is feelings” ayumi and the Sea of Happiness, From the very begin- the new ning of their acquaint- Mnovel from Jennifer ance, one gets a Freudian Tseng, follows Mayumi, a sense to this relationship: forty-one-year-old librar- Mayumi feels proud of ian, married with a child, his legible handwriting who begins an affair as he fills the registration with an unnamed seven- form for his library card teen-year-old boy who like a mother would for she meets in the library. her child. “And why Despite being aware of the did I, even then, feel a potential consequences twinge of pride at that?” of her decision, Mayumi Painfully conscious of cannot ignore this en- the “power differential” counter, and her obsession in their relationship, with with the boy grows. She her being older and more asks him to meet her at the experienced meaning waterfall, a secluded area she often makes the first in the woods, and their move, Mayumi offers him affair begins. She asks many chances to leave him several times if he before it is too late. As would like to change his the relationship develops, mind, offering him – and however, it seems the herself – an exit, but he is roles are shifting and he adamant. is acting paternal towards Tseng’s writing is her; as he helps her climb poetic, using the sym- up to the loft, he in control bolism of the island the while she is looking up to two inhabit to describe him for instructions like a Mayumi’s feelings child. “I looked up at him Jennifer Tsang’s novel takes place off the coast of New England // Flickr/Jonathan Miske 52 FELIX ISSUE 1697

TRAVEL [email protected] What you need to do before you leave Imperial University is over before you know it, they say. I’m sure some students would disagree. Nevertheless, Alice Davage and Fred Fyles are here with some things to make sure to do before gaining your freedom…

TRAVEL opportunity to escape women in floor-length from the often mundane skirts wafting towards Alice Davage life of an Imperial student. you. It’s too late. You’re Food Editor For the best view sneak trapped. And now you Fred Fyles into the lecture theatres need to awkward excuses Editor-in-Chief facing Prince Consort about why you don’t want Road in the aeronautics to go the church with building. Alternatively, the strangely-muscular Watch a premiere befriend residents of Beit Jesus opposite Imperial. Hall and use a bedroom If you’ve not tried to get Ever noticed those on the south or east sides through the Mormon bright spotlights encir- as a temporary viewing Gauntlet that is Exhibition cling the night sky over platform. – AD Road, have you even campus? No, they are attended Imperial? – FF not signalling an alien Avoid Exhibition invasion. The police are Road Mormons End a night at the not scouring campus for Slug a wanted criminal either. We’ve all been there. Although, both of these You’ve had a long day of It’s incredible how things would certainly lectures, where you didn’t quickly plans for ‘a quiet liven up exam season. understand a single thing, pint at the Union’ can They are in fact a sign that and all you want to do is transform to an incredibly a movie premiere or other head home to collapse messy night ending up glamorous event is being into bed. Then you see at The Slug @ Fulham, held at the Royal Albert two young men with West London’s premier Hall! Take a break from freshly pressed shirts, nightspot. Their Facebook Abandon hope all ye who enter here // Thomas Angus studying and immerse megawatt grins, and side page says they “always yourself in a scene of partings so sharp they have an awesome time feelings of shame/nausea/ the Centrefold actually or failure. You are one of glitz and glamour. That could slice your fingers. so come on down and regret that accompany is. Forget curly fries or us now. – AD red carpet may be a pain They make a beeline enjoy it with us”. Luckily, the next morning. It may crushing pressure – what for those of you heading towards you, but you after half a dozen pints have been described as really makes Imperial Post-exam pints and to Beit – a whole two hurriedly dash across the from 568, everything the “worst bar ever” on unique is the number of curly fries minutes will be added street, narrowly avoiding seems awesome, so TripAdvisor, but the Slug times naked photos of to your journey as you the taxis streaming past. you’ll probably enjoy the holds a special place in members of Cheese Soc Finishing your final walk around the damn You breathe a sigh of sweaty confines of the Imperial students’ hearts. have been posted around exams at Oxbridge might thing – but embrace the relief, then see two young Slug, until the inevitable Make sure to visit before campus. – FF involve being doused you leave. – FF in whipped cream and Library all-nighter Lambrini (if anyone ever Take part in a Felix tried that shit with me I Centrefold The dreaded all-night- swear I would cut them), er. You spent the first but at Imperial it’s a more For a short amount two years of your degree sedate affair. The most of time after arriving at judging the crazy people common sound you’ll Imperial, I presumed who live like hermits in hear after leaving your having a tasteful picture the 24/7 sweatbox we last exam isn’t shrieks of of semi-naked students in call Central Library. Then delight, but the question your university paper was final year hits. Severe ‘Union?’ Heading to 568 a pretty normal thing. They procrastination and sheer for a few pints and orders said everything would terror has left you with of curly fries, that Imperial be different at university, two untouched lab reports staple, is what most of us so I presumed this was due the following day. You will truly associate with just one of those things enter the library hoping to true freedom. Whether – like learning how to do be leaving triumphantly of not that evening ends laundry, or crying in the in a matter of hours. It with an early night or a toilets 24-hours before a gets to midnight and you messy one (see above for deadline – that all students still haven’t deciphered Slug-related information) get to experience. Reader, your lab protocol, which is up to the individual. I was wrong. It wasn’t may as well be written Regardless, Stella 4 has until speaking to friends in ancient hieroglyphics. never tasted sweeter. – FF from other universities It is at this point that you Check out the Mormons’ disquietingly-muscular Jesus // Flickr/Matthew Bembridge that I realised how odd realise it’s an all-nighter 53 FR IDAY, 15th JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1697

TRAVEL [email protected] TRAVEL [email protected]

packed touristy places to encounter huge crowds of treasury, or the Bell value-for-money option. Murano, famous for its filters ready! Finally, you Scusi, we’re going to Italy: a trip to Verona & Venice a quiet living area. There people, especially if you Tower. Otherwise, you can get glass-making industry, can visit the beach in Lido are many dead-ends but travel in summer. Gondola rides officially a 24-hour public transport where you can attend a Island. These boat rides it’s practically impossi- While exploring, don’t cost €80 for 40min but pass for €20, including glass-making demonstra- let you savour the views In preparation for the summer break, Felix Travel continues on the topic of short trips in Europe you simply can’t ble to get lost. You can forget to visit the main it’s for the whole boat unlimited water bus and tion. of the blue sea all around also follow the canals, attractions too – the Rialto that fits six people, so land bus trips (land buses Situated a bit further but they are quite long miss. Read on to find out why you should visit the tourist-beloved Italian gems Verona and Venice. the Venetian version of Bridge and St Mark’s you can split the cost. The in the mainland). You can out, Burano Island is (60 minutes or more) so streets – there are no cars, Basilica. The entry to the gondoliers might raise the use water busses (not to full of brightly-coloured maybe don’t risk it if you just private boats, public Basilica is free but the price though – you can be confused with expen- houses that together with have a flight to catch. TRAVEL Verona ferries (water-buses), and queues are long, and be try to bargain. You can sive water taxis used for blue canals and colourful “Torre dei gondolas roaming the prepared to pay if you also purchase tour tickets personal hire) to visit the boats create a picturesque Edita Pileckyte Most of us know waters. Just be prepared to want to visit its museum, online and find the best neighbouring islands, like view. Get those Instagram Travel Editor Lamberti is Verona as the hometown of Romeo and Juliet, a tower that protagonists of the tragic taly is a perfect choice overlooks the love story by Shake- for your summer speare. Naturally, one of Flying First Class: is it worth the hype? vacation since it has whole city the main attractions there everything – from is Juliet’s balcony at the Ibig famous cities to quiet of Verona, Casa di Giulietta (Juliet’s Most of us travel by plane at least once a year but have you ever wondered what it’s like to fly First Class? Travel lesser-known villages and house). You can pay to beach towns. You can pop unravelling a go up there but you can Writer Noppasit Pongsak shares his first-hand experience as a First Class customer of Thai Airways and discusses in for a quick weekend sea of cute red- also admire it from the getaway or spend a few outside at no cost. The whether it’s really worth the money. weeks touring all around roof houses nearby souvenir shop sells the country, whatever love padlocks, and there’s floats your boat. It’s also surrounded a wall you can leave a TRAVEL so I had no choice – and Business Class passen- easy to score affordable message on. There’s also that’s how this trip gers, where I got a com- flight tickets (although by mountains. Romeo’s house, but it’s Noppasit Pongsak happened. plimentary back massage mostly during the off It truly looks simply private property Travel Writer for one hour. After I got season), and the warm with nothing touristy. On-Ground Experience refreshed at the Spa, I Mediterranean climate spectacular For €5 you can climb headed to the First Class will not disappoint. Last up the Torre dei Lamberti, ack in 2016, When I got off my car lounge. There I found a year, I went on a three-day and is worth a tower that overlooks the when the rest at Bangkok Airport, there dining area, where I sat trip to Verona and Venice, whole city, unravelling a of my family was a porter who came to down and ordered from two of the most popular the heavy sea of cute red-roof houses were on holiday take care of my luggage. the a-la-carte menu, just Italian cities loved by climb!” surrounded by mountains. Bin Hong Kong (where I We proceeded to walk like in restaurants (except couples and solo travellers It truly looks spectacular Castelvecchio Bridge in Verona, one of, but not the only, prides of the city // Edita refused to go as I needed to the check-in counter that it was free here). Later alike, and rightly so. and is worth the heavy Pileckyte to revise for my January which looked like the I went to the bar, which exams), my mother said ones you see in hotels. had a wide selection of climb! If you want to see Venice I needed to take some After that, I met a lady drinks, and ordered my the panorama for free, you “The best way rest by taking some time who escorted me to the favourite “fruit punch”. can opt for climbing a hill Let me start this off by off as I was working too fast track, which included The lounge was certainly The Royal Orchid Spa, one of the perks of Thai AIrways First Class // Noppasit Pongsak instead. saying that Venice is really to experience hard. So I decided to security and immigration an excellent place to relax, Another famous at- expensive so if you’re book a last minute flight checks. I spent less than and the only thing I didn’t On Board Experience ladies located inside. Again, with the advan- traction is Castelvecchio, not keen on spending too Venice is with Thai Airways to join five minutes there which like was the lack of inter- Before the breakfast tages of the First Class, a medieval castle (now much, you should plan to wander them there. However, is considered unbelieva- national newspapers, such Before boarding my service commenced, I it only took me about 15 museum), and a bridge of your visit well. The city there were no seats left bly quick. as Wall Street Journal or plane, I met another had received a menu with minutes to get from the the same name. They both centre with all the canals around on its anywhere except for First Then I visited the Royal the Financial Times. member of the airline’s about four choices of main plane door to the taxi. offer amazing views of and tourist attractions Class because it was the Orchid Spa, available staff who escorted me to course. However, it was So overall, was it worth the Adige River, with the is in the island that you narrow streets, Christmas Holidays, and exclusively to First and the gate and helped me to also possible to have pre- flying First Class with city and mountains in the can easily reach by bus carry my hand luggage. I booked the meal before Thai Airways for under distance. There’s also a or train from mainland without any then found my way to my but it was too late for me. three hours? I would say coliseum in the city – not Venice, where accommo- plan really, seat, located on the upper My breakfast consisted of no, especially if you’re as majestic as the one in dation is much cheaper. deck. It was a typical three parts: assorted fruit, not using any mileage Rome but still very beau- The restaurant prices are and see where modern first class seat, cereal, and “lobster rice redemption to reduce the tiful. obviously very high, and equipped with a large porridge” which I chose high cost (it cost me around Overall, less than a day the service charge is man- it takes you” entertainment screen: you for the main, and unfor- THB 36700 or £860 for an was enough to see the datory everywhere but can find this kind of design tunately it tasted awful. online-discounted return main objects in the city so there’s a McDonald’s and on most inter-continental After the meal service ticket between Bangkok I set off to Venice in the a couple of grocery stores OK, now on to the airlines. A glass of Dom- had finished, I reclined and Hong Kong). The late afternoon and visited on the island. Public bath- exciting part! The best Pérignon champagne was my seat to the fully-flat meal quality was the major Padua on the way. This rooms are all paid, except way to experience Venice served prior to take off, position and took about drawback, and the airline city has several beautiful one cheeky loo at the top is to wander around on its and after the flight had an hour-long nap. It was needs to put more effort in churches and cathedrals of a supermarket near narrow streets, without departed, I went to check a comfortable journey, this matter. On the other but since I arrived quite the Rialto Bridge. This any plan really, and see out the lavatory – it was partly because the weather hand, their ground service late, I just had a lovely supermarket also has a where it takes you. You much larger than the ones on the way to Hong Kong was remarkable and is walk around and treated free viewpoint if you want can easily take a random in Economy or Business was very nice. We arrived probably what attracts myself to some Italian to see the mesmerising turn that will instantly Class. There was also a to our destination slightly most flyers. Colour-popping houses in Burano Island: every photo is a postcard! // Edita Pileckyte food. panorama of the city. lead you away from the Fancy looking, yet not so delicious breakfast served on board // Noppasit Pongsak built-in powder table for earlier than expected. 54 55 Union Page Friday 15 June

Student Support Strategy Consultation Union Brand Survey

The Union and the College have been working together on a student The Union would like feedback on your perception and experience of support strategy, and to ensure that it reflects our membership, we are the brand. We’ll be doing consultations on the logo, and other aspects now asking for your feedback on it. The strategy outlines how the College of our visual identity, as well as seek to better understand members’ will support its students at every level of decision making - with a specific experiences of the Union. focus on wellbeing, which has been identified as an overlooked area. The research will form part of a larger effort to refine our brand so Now that the groundwork has been laid, your feedback is vital to the members can feel clear on what we offer, and improve their connection structural integrity of the strategy, to ensure that it works for everyone. to the Union and each other. To start, take our survey at imperialcollegeunion.org/brand-survey We’re running a survey, as well as stalls between 18 and 26 June at different points on campus. You can also provide feedback directly to Fintan O’Connor, Deputy President (Welfare), who has worked on this alongside our Union president, Chippy Compton.

If you’d like to read more: imperialcollegeunion.org/support-strategy

Summer Ball ticket information and more If you’ve bought a Summer Ball ticket and are planning to attend, or plan to transfer your ticket to someone else, take note of the following dates:

World Cup fever spreads to our bars 18 June: ticket transfer instructions emailed 19 June: transfer day for tickets FiveSixEight was jam-packed with students watching the first game of 20 June: age checks/refund those under 18 the FIFA World Cup on our big screens yesterday, and - something that 21 June: e-tickets emailed should bring joy to the ears of all football fanatics (unlike those dreaded vuvuzelas - remember them?) - we’re showing every single game of the Alongside your e-ticket email, you’ll receive all tournament. Special beers imported from selected participating countries the information you need to know about the will be on offer, as well as some food deals. Ball - as well the full programme. h-bar will be showing all Monday - Friday games throughout Summer, We’ll be on social media all evening! Find our Use the Snapchat filter! with themed burgers for each of the 32 countries - that’s a lot of toppings! special Summer Ball filter on Snapchat, and when tagging on social, use #icuSummerBall - we’d love to see some pictures Reynolds Bar will be open Monday - Friday until June 30. On offer is an of you in your finery (or costume!) - and we may share or retweet. incredible 2 pizzas and four drinks deal, enough to keep yourself and a mate sustained for all 90 minutes of the action.

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CLUBS & SOCIETIES [email protected] ISRAEL TECH TRIP: 3am the next day. gave some useful tips LEARNING ABOUT Amongst the array of about starting out in the CULTURE AND TECH world-renowned compa- tech industry having sold nies visited on the trip, his startups, P-Cube and Often featured in the Checkpoint stood out the Pentacom, to Cisco. news for its continuing most. Checkpoint delivers Day three started conflict, Israel is a pioneering cyber-secu- with a trip to Tel Aviv country most people rity services, and their University to learn more probably associate with talk detailed the current about the higher insti- conflict. However, a little landscape of cyber-se- tutional scene in Israel, known fact is that the curity. We were treated before heading out to a country also houses the that evening to dinner Kibbutz, a communal highest concentration of by some local residents homestead rooted in start-ups tech companies who used the EatWith agricultural practices, in per capita. Given the app (https://www.eatwith. the middle of the Negev. country’s young history, com/), which allows local This kibbutz served as Israel is firmly cemented residents to open up their the HQ for Netafim – an in the world of modern homes for dinner (for a irrigation manufacturer technology. Needless to group of 55 in this case!), who managed to cultivate say, our expectations were with some live music farmland in the desert high when we were given through the night. conditions of the Negev. the opportunity to visit The tech highlight of Then to learn more about Israel as part of the Israeli day two was our visit to life as an Israeli student, Society Tech Trip. local start-ups, Carbyne, we were hosted for dinner Since its inception in and healthy.io. The former by students at Beersheba April 2017, the Israeli delivers video capabilities University. Society Tech Trip has to emergency calls for To change pace, the grown exponentially: as first responders, while the next morning started with well as taking 55 students latter optimises chronic a jaunt down to the Dead this year, it has also begun disease management Sea to relax and recover expanding operations using AI. Whilst the from what had already to other universities. To technology piqued our been an action-packed describe the trip itinerary interest, lunch for that day three days. After a mon- as jam-packed would was what stole the show umental climb back up to be an under-statement, – a food tour of Carmel normal altitude, we began visiting ten companies in Market, tasting the local the more cultural aspect five days in three major delicacies such as sabich of the trip, starting in Je- cities. The first day started and malabi. Sabich is a rusalem. Here, we toured off the back of a 4am pita filled with aubergine, the city, visiting sites such arrival into Tel Aviv-Yafo eggs, and tahini, whereas as the Holy Sepulchre and Day Three: View from the hotel in Beersheba // Josh Sebastian and Harvinder Power airport. Then heading malabi is a rose-flavored the Western Wall. After to Jaffa, the Old City, pudding similar to a soaking in the atmosphere investing in a diverse had been in the day. vehicles, given the recent situated a few kilometers blancmange. To bring the of the city, we were treated background of compa- Our final day in Israel news about Tesla and south of Tel Aviv, where day to a close, we were to an inspirational talk by nies. We then headed to started at Yad Vashem, Uber accidents involving we soaked up the rich honoured by a talk given Fiona Darmon, COO at Je- the market, turned from a Israel’s memorial to the self-driving vehicles. and vibrant atmosphere, by Bennie Schneider, a rusalem Venture Partners, bustling food market turn victims of the Holocaust, The experience as a before hitting the hay at serial entrepreneur who a venture capitalist firm into a bar, just as busy as it where we were walked whole was truly eye-open- through exhibits detail- ing, giving us an inside ing the atrocities of the look into the history and Holocaust. Next on the future of a young country. agenda was a visit to We were able to appreci- the Weizmann Institute, ate both the cultural and a higher educational tech aspects of Israel, in a research centre, where unique way – a way which we learnt more about the involved us getting ap- opportunities available proximately no sleep for to continue academia in six days, but was worth it Israel after university. nonetheless. MobileEye was the final Thanks to the Israeli tech visit of the trip, and Society Committee for perhaps one of the most organising such a mem- entertaining. We learnt ory-forging, experiential more about how self-driv- trip, and we look forward ing can be achieved, and to seeing it grow in the how MobileEye, a startup, future along with the had been bought by Intel friendships we made! for $15.3bn. We were able See it live: bit.ly/tech- to discuss the technology tripvlog behind the system they – Harvinder Power had been developing, and and Shubhangi Sharma We came as strangers, we left as friends // Josh Sebastian and Harvinder Power the ethics of self-driving 57 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 – Fake News! – ISSUE 28 FELIX ISSUE 1697

HANGMAN [email protected] Hangman Memeperial ‘Best Boi Competition’ ends with violence on campus

HANGMAN which aimed to establish with fights breaking out favour – who even knows ‘the greatest course at all over campus. Earlier what Materials students Negafelix Imperial’, had to be shut this week, the College de- do anyway?!” Editor-in-Chief down earlier this week, clared a state of emergen- Oscar Gilmore, under- after a contest between cy, as Materials students graduate representative Physics and Materials led set fire to the Physics for the Department of Ma- The tournament had to an outbreak of extreme undergraduate common terials, disputed Paget’s to be called off after violence and campaigns room. No students were claim. “What do we do?” Materials students of voter intimidation. hurt, although the micro- he told Hangman, “What set fire to the Physics Hangman believes the waves did not survive the don’t we do!? Physics dispute originally began blaze. are just jealous they’re undergraduate when students from the Speaking to Hangman, stuck in dusty labs all common room. Department of Physics Larry Paget, an academic day. Everything the light were accused of using of representative for the De- touches is ours.” ‘Best Boi automatic bots to increase partment of Physics, said Hangman spoke to What even goes on in this building? // Christian Richters Tournament’ their vote count. Physics things had gotten “out of William Raycock, Vice organised by students then retaliated hand”: “At the end of the Provost (Riot Prediction), Hangman, “as students small pockets of violence Memeperial with verbal attacks in day, this is just a stupid who said the disturbances work out all their pent-up aren’t going to worry me. Ahas led to riots on cam- the Facebook comment online competition, which were “not unexpected”. aggression post-exams. We just need to wait until pus, after arguments thread below the poll, doesn’t really matter. “Every year some- I was here to remember they tire themselves out over cheating escalated. which soon spilled over Memeperial should really thing along these lines the Great Library Cafe and fuck off back home The tournament, into real-life violence, just call it in Physics’ happens,” he told Debacle of 2012, so these for the summer.”

Students have been unable to cope without Central Library // Twitter/Imperial Record numbers of students diagnosed with Stockholm Syndrome post-exams ARIES TAURUS GEMINI CANCER LEO VIRGO This week you’re the This week you’re This week you’re the This week you get This week you find This week you read the HANGMAN their “extreme concern” the students’ behaviour: happens in periods of even then I felt I couldn’t are able to adjust to a Felix Editor, and you’ve responsible for analysing cover photographer, and hammered at the Union yourself with so much Met Office has predicted at the number of students “what we’re seeing at extreme stress, or situa- leave campus.” regular life post-exams: put your back out after the results of the Sex your enquiries into how Bar and put all your time post-exams. You super hot temperatures Negafelix experiencing “atypical Imperial isn’t a new thing. tions where the individual Another student, who “At the College, we carrying these massive Survey. You’re so to get on top of a tall student loan into Bitcoin. could learn a language! this summer. Perfect Editor-in-Chief post traumatic stress dis- literally thinks they could spoke to Hangman on realise it can be difficult issues all around campus. traumatised you’re unable building at Imperial lead What could possibly go Or take a pottery course! for staying inside and order symptoms, similar die any minute.” the condition of ano- for some students to rejoin You’re welcome Imperial. to look anyone on campus to an emergency meeting wrong?! You start an Instagram avoiding everyone you to those seen in patients “Students A number of students nymity, spoke about how normal society. That’s in the eyes again. with your personal tutor. page photoshopping know! The Imperial College experiencing ‘Stockholm who were reporting her life had unravelled why so many just end up Trump’s head onto Health Centre are Syndrome’.” were found similar symptoms spoke after handing in her final going straight into a PhD babies’ bodies instead. reporting record The letter then goes on wandering to Hangman about their project: “it’s strange – I – it’s a route that utilizes numbers of students to detail the behaviour of experiences. Johnny thought once I’d had their ability to withstand concern, which includes: around Pritchard, a final-year my hand-in I’d feel a lot extreme pressure every returning to the Union an inability to stay away physics student, was better about everything, hour of every day. For and Library post- from Central Library, campus sitting in Beit Quad when but I’ve become so used those who don’t want exams. despite having finished we spoke to him about his to feeling like a piece of to go into academia, the all their exams; students aimlessly post- post-exam experience: shit who doesn’t know Counselling Service has mperial College coming in to campus the “well, I’d just finished my anything and is constantly set up a specialist pro- Health Centre week after their vivas to exams” last exam, and couldn’t under immense pressure. gramme, aimed at helping (ICHC) are report- wander around and stare wait to get out of here The day after I was sitting students develop coping LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES ing record numbers into space; and numerous forever. We had a pretty at home, but felt this mechanisms for a life Iof students being diag- students ordering cheese- There have been a number wild weekend, but then compulsion to come back without huge amounts of nosed with ‘Stockholm burgers and curly fries of cases within psychiat- when Monday rolled onto campus and spend 72 stress. We are delighted to This week your post- This week you can’t This week you book your This week you’re This week you and This week you’re the Syndrome’ following from 568, despite the fact ric literature which show round I found myself hours without showering. say we’ve expanded our exam high is punctured believe Trump says train ticket home for the disappointed your approximately 5,000 Horoscopes Writer, the summer examination that’s all they survived off victims of emotional and getting up at 7.30 and It’s become all I know.” Counselling Service to when you get your Trudeau stabbed them in summer. Can’t wait to answers in the Sex other Imperial students and you’ve resorted to period. during revision season. physical abuse bonding heading straight to Central Hangman spoke to address the demand. We preliminary final project the back, and yet remains completely regress into Survey were discounted take advantage of the nice pulling the same jokes In an email from ICHC Hangman spoke to with their captors, even Library. I didn’t realise Owen Yarmouth, Vice expect to work our way mark back. You spend the completely silent about a small child for the next for being ‘so tragic it’s weather and pile onto about cryptocurrency and sent to College manage- Dr Elizabeth Bennett, a going so far as to develop what I was doing until I’d Provost (Rehabilitation through this cohort by the next two hours trying to the Fusion price rise. three months! clearly a joke’. the patch of grass in Beit exams. It’s been a long ment, which was leaked to psychiatrist specialising complete dependence on been studying quantum Services), who is respon- end of 2020.” work out whether it’s still SAD! Quad. Seriously, just go fucking year. Hangman, ICHC staff cite in extreme stress, about them. It typically only theory for two hours, but sible for ensuring students possible for you to scrape to Hyde Park. a 2:2. 58 59 FR IDAY, 15 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1697

PUZZLES [email protected] PUZZLES [email protected]                White to move first in both problems. FUCWIT Forced checkmate in three (top) and 1 Nonogram of Ketamine 369    
   
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SPORTS [email protected] WTF is Ultimate Frisbee? Felix sport’s guide to the flying disc toting, epic catch making, self-officiating American sport.

SPORTS is that those sports used balls not frisbees, and I Imraj Singh slowly realized that with Sports Editor frisbees there must be a more delicate touch. Instead of a ball that is ltimate Frisbee, propelled and hindered also known by by the air, a well-thrown cool kids as frisbee glides on it. The just ‘Ultimate’, trajectory of the frisbee is Uis a relatively new sport, very sensitive to release, having only been devel- wrist action, and angle oped in the late 1960s by than any ball. Once you a few students in New see an Ultimate veteran Jersey. Since its inception, throw a frisbee you the sport has exploded in acquire a respect for the popularity; from fling- skill needed; it’s nothing ing cookie tin lids in a like how you throw them play-ground to being rec- on a warm summer’s day ognized by International at the beach. Olympic Committee in During the warm ups I less than 60 years! With that in mind, I got in contact with Imperial’s “It’s nothing very own club, the disc Doctors (dD), to find out like how you what the hype was about. I arrived a little early throw a frisbee and gradually met the on a warm team as they trickled in, gathering around a tree summer’s day disc Doctors sporting their yellow shirts: a reference to ducks, which are their club mascot // disc Doctors close to the old Hyde Park football fields. It was late at the beach” to someone who was Ultimate feels to me like to respect each other, The club is doing very February, and a stiff cold running. With my newly an amalgamation of many adhere to the rules, and well, with a tour at the be- breeze blew, but it didn’t acquired confidence the sports. The aim of the to play fundamentally for ginning of each academic seem to affect the others, was taught the two most initial passes were alright, game is to get someone the joy of the game. There year; different tiers; 1st, who were bright eyed and basic throws: backhand but on the longer pass I to catch the frisbee in weren’t any sour feelings 2nd, and 3rd teams; indoor bushy tailed. There was a and forehand throws. messed up. Then the next the end zone, which has and outdoor teams; mixed, very friendly atmosphere, Backhand is the one you – time I messed up again, similarities to American men and ladies teams; and with teammates feeling the reader – are probably and again, and again. The Football. You can’t run “The X factor a social scene too. They comfortable in one-an- most familiar with: it’s captain noticed what I when you’re in possession compete on a national other’s presence; what I like back hand slapping was doing, having played of the frisbee and you of Ultimate stage, with many of the sensed was a team that the air with the frisbee, American football for must throw it within a players playing outside were close-knit and at whilst the forehand is like such a long time I was not specific time frame – that’s is the ethos of the club in the best the tail end of the season. slicing precisely, with a throwing the frisbee level, like netball. I say it’s an attached to non-University teams in Although I was a newbie I lot of flick of the wrist, and when throwing a high amalgamation, but it’s got the UK. Training sessions felt very much welcomed as you throw. I was also powered long pass; as a a little extra and feels a lot the sport – the are usually Wednesdays and I was not treated as an taught what I’d like to call result, the slightest failure different when actually and Saturdays, with outsider. the crocodile technique in technique was ampli- playing it. Yes, it involves spirit of the games on Sundays. In the Warm ups consisted for catching the frisbee. fied. I tried to correct the the oddly shaped frisbee, first term, players can get of throwing the frisbee a Once thrown to me I long pass technique, but but that isn’t the X factor. game” a true taste of Ultimate, moderate distance to one slapped my hands over the to no avail; with more What I would consider with tournaments catered another, while a veteran frisbee sandwiching it like practice I think I eventual- the X factor is the ethos for beginners. Further player took me under the jaws of a crocodile ly would’ve got it. attached to the game. This when someone scored, into the season the club his wing to show me the (there must be an actual For the final part of may seem outlandish but only appreciation. I was competes in national ropes. I must admit that name for that technique). the session we played through my time with coached on the field too, competitions and the club going into the session I Feeling more confident a match. Instead of the the club there seemed to and my teammates tried have done very well in the assumed that I would be and with more players usual seven-a-side which be a nurturing of what is to put me in a position to past. If you are interested good at throwing, being arriving we moved onto a is standard, we played coined the ‘spirit of the score to ensure I enjoyed in swinging and spinning of moderate arm strength drill. five-a-side due to lack game’. In Ultimate there my time. There was an some discs get in touch at: and possessing enough co- The drill consisted of of players. It is at that are no external referees understanding to enjoy [email protected] ordination for most sports. a few passes and then point I came to grips with – it is self-officiating, the game, with healthy What I forgot to factor in a long pass down field the basics of the sport. with that a silent pledge competition too. 63 Felix couldn't exist without our contributors. We would like to thank:

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