SubscriptionsSection: Culture & Society
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The Best Things in Life are Free
There’s no longer any illusion: as technology rapidly advances, everything around us, both on and offline, is getting shitter.
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‘Hooked’:A Biting Tale of Female Loneliness and Obsession
Hooked – a novel about loneliness and the sometimes twisted and complicated relationships between women.
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The Politics of Loneliness
Lonely hurts. It hurts at the edges. The edges of the day, if you wake and fall asleep with no one: unwanted.
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It’s Alive! Or Is It?
The latest addition to this deathless corpus is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! starring recent Oscar winner Jessie Buckley as a fiercely feminist version of the monster’s putative consort.
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Machine Yearning: From God to Aliens to Chatbots – The Metaphysics of Loneliness
For those of us old enough to remember the Apollo missions, the sight of Artemis II blasting off towards the Moon may have brought back something a bit more complicated than Space Age tristesse or déjà vu.
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‘Orwell Knew the Moment You Discover that the Other is Also You, a Whole Range of Bullshit Just Drops’
It seems increasingly true to suggest that we live in an Orwellian world. What were the personal origins of Orwell: 2+2=5?
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‘Orwell Knew the Moment You Discover that the Other is Also You, a Whole Range of Bullshit Just Drops’
Byline Times’ Editor in Chief meets the award-winning Haitian film-maker and director Raoul Peck to explore his new documentary, ‘Orwell: 2+2=5’, which investigates the prescience of the English writer’s warnings of authoritarianism through his own words
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Farage’s Staggering Side Hustles
Nigel Farage has spent more than 1,113 hours – or 140 working days – on his various other jobs since being elected to Parliament in July 2024.
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