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How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era
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✍️ Adi Roy
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✍️ Adi Roy
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How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era | Political Pandora
Digital technologies have fundamentally changed how we see and use spaces. Today, it’s no longer abstract or just about the physical, but the layers of information that exist on top of our geographies...
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September 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era
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✍️ Adi Roy
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✍️ Adi Roy
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Violence as a Colonial Ecology: On Environmental Warfare in Gaza
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✍️ Tatenda Dlali
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✍️ Tatenda Dlali
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Violence as a Colonial Ecology: On Environmental Warfare in Gaza | Political Pandora
Palestine has been the political moment for the last two years. As we approach the second anniversary of the most recent iteration of warfare on Palestine (that’s 730 days of ceaseless colonial violen...
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September 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Violence as a Colonial Ecology: On Environmental Warfare in Gaza
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✍️ Tatenda Dlali
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✍️ Tatenda Dlali
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Streaming, fundamentally, doesn’t give creative teams enough time to actually make the kinds of episode-to-episode changes that used to be possible. It’s not profitable in the short term.
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Wednesday, Discovery, and the Problems of Recalibrating in the Streaming Era | Political Pandora
Discovery, meanwhile, came out in the streaming era, where that kind of evolution just doesn’t happen. If anything, the opposite happened: on a surface-level, you’d be forgiven for thinking the show w...
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September 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Streaming, fundamentally, doesn’t give creative teams enough time to actually make the kinds of episode-to-episode changes that used to be possible. It’s not profitable in the short term.
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Netflix has been experiencing a total artistic collapse for a while now, and it’s hard to imagine a literal collapse is too far behind; we all know what they say about ventures that are too big to fail.
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Wednesday, Discovery, and the Problems of Recalibrating in the Streaming Era | Political Pandora
Discovery, meanwhile, came out in the streaming era, where that kind of evolution just doesn’t happen. If anything, the opposite happened: on a surface-level, you’d be forgiven for thinking the show w...
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September 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Netflix has been experiencing a total artistic collapse for a while now, and it’s hard to imagine a literal collapse is too far behind; we all know what they say about ventures that are too big to fail.
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Lights, Camera, Culture: Examining the Laws of Global Storytelling
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Lights, Camera, Culture: Examining the Laws of Global Storytelling | Political Pandora
What happens when stories made for everyone fail the people they purport to represent?
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September 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Lights, Camera, Culture: Examining the Laws of Global Storytelling
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The Unnatural Art of Being: Cinema's Camp Evolution
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The Unnatural Art of Being: Cinema's Camp Evolution | Political Pandora
What began in the shadows of queer underground culture as a subversive celebration of identity has, over the decades, been transfigured into something far more palatable and considerably less dangerou...
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September 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The Unnatural Art of Being: Cinema's Camp Evolution
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Occupied Imaginations: The Role of Art in Palestinian Resistance
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Occupied Imaginations: The Role of Art in Palestinian Resistance | Political Pandora
Art is a way we can realise our imagination, feel its potential and piece it into a form of hope. Upon entering the Edinburgh Palestine Museum, one is not first encountered by images of ruin, but by A...
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September 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Occupied Imaginations: The Role of Art in Palestinian Resistance
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Pandora’s Vinyl: Rachael & Vilray’s West of Broadway
Rachael & Vilray experimentally create a body of work that masterfully captures romance and diatribe in music.
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Rachael & Vilray experimentally create a body of work that masterfully captures romance and diatribe in music.
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Rachael & Vilray: West of Broadway | Political Pandora
Pandora's Vinyl: Rachael and Vilray’s third album, West of Broadway, backed by their band, is a romantic concoction of love, humour, and diatribe that fits perfectly within their brand.
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September 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Pandora’s Vinyl: Rachael & Vilray’s West of Broadway
Rachael & Vilray experimentally create a body of work that masterfully captures romance and diatribe in music.
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Rachael & Vilray experimentally create a body of work that masterfully captures romance and diatribe in music.
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Pandora’s Vinyl: Rachael & Vilray’s West of Broadway
As with past Rachael & Vilray albums, this one follows romantic tones that deeply showcase the authenticity of love.
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As with past Rachael & Vilray albums, this one follows romantic tones that deeply showcase the authenticity of love.
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Rachael & Vilray: West of Broadway | Political Pandora
Pandora's Vinyl: Rachael and Vilray’s third album, West of Broadway, backed by their band, is a romantic concoction of love, humour, and diatribe that fits perfectly within their brand.
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September 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Pandora’s Vinyl: Rachael & Vilray’s West of Broadway
As with past Rachael & Vilray albums, this one follows romantic tones that deeply showcase the authenticity of love.
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As with past Rachael & Vilray albums, this one follows romantic tones that deeply showcase the authenticity of love.
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Trump’s Big “Beautiful” Bill on Climate
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#UnitedStates #Trump #ClimatePolicy
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#UnitedStates #Trump #ClimatePolicy
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Trump’s Big “Beautiful” Bill on Climate | Political Pandora
It is a tumultuous time for policy in general but especially so in the climate and energy space in the US. President Donald Trump’s recent orders to halt the concentration of a $6B wind farm that was ...
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September 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Trump’s Big “Beautiful” Bill on Climate
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#UnitedStates #Trump #ClimatePolicy
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#UnitedStates #Trump #ClimatePolicy
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It’s a game of tug-of-war when cities and authorities are positioned to choose between catering to visitors for economic growth and protecting the welfare of locals.
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Commodifying Streets and Concealing Community | Political Pandora
The ambience of Spain’s bustling streets, usually filled with vibrant music, laughter and warmth, now echoes the discordant sounds of protesters and perplexing scenes of water pistols being aimed at t...
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September 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It’s a game of tug-of-war when cities and authorities are positioned to choose between catering to visitors for economic growth and protecting the welfare of locals.
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Spain, a country that has long been celebrated as a haven for travellers, now grapples with the heavy costs of maintaining this pristine image.
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Commodifying Streets and Concealing Community | Political Pandora
The ambience of Spain’s bustling streets, usually filled with vibrant music, laughter and warmth, now echoes the discordant sounds of protesters and perplexing scenes of water pistols being aimed at t...
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September 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Spain, a country that has long been celebrated as a haven for travellers, now grapples with the heavy costs of maintaining this pristine image.
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Reels of Rage: Hyperreality and the Digital Rise of Hindutva
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✍️ Vaishnavi Manju Pal
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✍️ Vaishnavi Manju Pal
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Reels of Rage: Hyperreality and the Digital Rise of Hindutva | Political Pandora
The contemporary Indian political landscape is a battle of ideology and rhetoric. Instead of being built on any grounded sense of reality, it is set up on a hyperreality that is continuously being cre...
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September 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Reels of Rage: Hyperreality and the Digital Rise of Hindutva
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✍️ Vaishnavi Manju Pal
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✍️ Vaishnavi Manju Pal
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Accent, Access and Authority: Language's Hidden Politics
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Accent, Access and Authority: Language’s Hidden Politics | Political Pandora
The function of spoken language extends far beyond mere communication—it is an indicator of one’s identity, an instrument of access, and, mostly, a mechanism of establishing authority in a social sett...
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September 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Accent, Access and Authority: Language's Hidden Politics
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How Waste Pickers Are Reshaping the Global Plastics Treaty
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✍️ David Sathuluri
#WastePickers #PlasticPollution #RecyclingWorkers
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✍️ David Sathuluri
#WastePickers #PlasticPollution #RecyclingWorkers
September 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
How Waste Pickers Are Reshaping the Global Plastics Treaty
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✍️ David Sathuluri
#WastePickers #PlasticPollution #RecyclingWorkers
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✍️ David Sathuluri
#WastePickers #PlasticPollution #RecyclingWorkers
The People vs. Amazon
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✍️ Tatenda Dlali
#Khoisan #IndigenousRights
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✍️ Tatenda Dlali
#Khoisan #IndigenousRights
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The People vs. Amazon | Political Pandora
Both Amazon and the judicial system of South Africa have acted as neocolonial powers, employing colonial tactics to further dispossess the Khoisan people. In this case, Amazon as neocolonial infrastru...
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September 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The People vs. Amazon
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✍️ Tatenda Dlali
#Khoisan #IndigenousRights
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✍️ Tatenda Dlali
#Khoisan #IndigenousRights
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Pandora’s Vinyl: Jabulile Majola: Isitifikethi
Isitifiketi is a museum, not only of Majola’s experiences, but of the human condition.
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Isitifiketi is a museum, not only of Majola’s experiences, but of the human condition.
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Jabulile Majola: Isitifikethi | Political Pandora
In keeping with traditional folk music, Majola hands us a series of isiZulu ballads with feathery falsettos and simple arrangements often consisting of a single guitar.
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September 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Pandora’s Vinyl: Jabulile Majola: Isitifikethi
Isitifiketi is a museum, not only of Majola’s experiences, but of the human condition.
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Isitifiketi is a museum, not only of Majola’s experiences, but of the human condition.
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Pandora’s Vinyl: Jabulile Majola: Isitifikethi
Majola is successful in creating the imagery of a person holding their heart, or at least its glowy essence, out in their hands as a gift.
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Majola is successful in creating the imagery of a person holding their heart, or at least its glowy essence, out in their hands as a gift.
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Jabulile Majola: Isitifikethi | Political Pandora
In keeping with traditional folk music, Majola hands us a series of isiZulu ballads with feathery falsettos and simple arrangements often consisting of a single guitar.
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September 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Pandora’s Vinyl: Jabulile Majola: Isitifikethi
Majola is successful in creating the imagery of a person holding their heart, or at least its glowy essence, out in their hands as a gift.
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Majola is successful in creating the imagery of a person holding their heart, or at least its glowy essence, out in their hands as a gift.
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Quilts, Gardens and Weaving: Inheriting Knowledge Without Words
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✍️ Harriet Sanderson
#CraftResistance #WomenLabour
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✍️ Harriet Sanderson
#CraftResistance #WomenLabour
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Quilts, Gardens and Weaving: Inheriting Knowledge Without Words | Political Pandora
The crafts that once connected us and the earth have faded from view and taken with them fundamental relationships. A political enquiry into these media allows us to take craft seriously, as a tool to...
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September 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Quilts, Gardens and Weaving: Inheriting Knowledge Without Words
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✍️ Harriet Sanderson
#CraftResistance #WomenLabour
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✍️ Harriet Sanderson
#CraftResistance #WomenLabour
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Love may be liberating or imprisoning. For Cleo and Frank, it was marked by a perpetual tension between Cleo’s fierce independence and Frank’s desire to provide for her, writes Harnoor Kaur Uppal.
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A Lover’s Note to Uncomfortable Truths: Cleopatra and Frankenstein Reviewed | Political Pandora
Often, it is the books chosen on a whim that linger with you the longest. That was my experience with Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors. It was the bittersweet and painful portrayal of modern...
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September 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Love may be liberating or imprisoning. For Cleo and Frank, it was marked by a perpetual tension between Cleo’s fierce independence and Frank’s desire to provide for her, writes Harnoor Kaur Uppal.
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A camera is supposed to capture the truth, yet it was also a technology that helped perpetuate racial biases in culture.
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When Cameras Can't See: Tracing the Racial DNA in Colour Film | Political Pandora
A critical examination of the integrity of the colour film production proves necessary to uncover the racism embedded in the process of this technology and the cultural use of cameras to reinforce rac...
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September 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A camera is supposed to capture the truth, yet it was also a technology that helped perpetuate racial biases in culture.
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Pandora’s Vinyl: Fontaines D.C.’s Romance
Romance is Fontaines D.C. going full Radiohead while somehow making it feel completely their own, which should be impossible, but here we are.
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Romance is Fontaines D.C. going full Radiohead while somehow making it feel completely their own, which should be impossible, but here we are.
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Fontaines D.C: Romance | Political Pandora
Pandora's Vinyl: I'll say it upfront: this is not your traditional Dogrel Fontaines. If you came here expecting more sneering Dublin street poetry, you might as well pack it up now. Romance is the sou...
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September 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Pandora’s Vinyl: Fontaines D.C.’s Romance
Romance is Fontaines D.C. going full Radiohead while somehow making it feel completely their own, which should be impossible, but here we are.
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Romance is Fontaines D.C. going full Radiohead while somehow making it feel completely their own, which should be impossible, but here we are.
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Amazon is only the most recent adversary in the Khoisan’s long battle against cultural, socio-political, and economic erasure. The Khoisan people had been fighting for the memory and cultural significance of their language and their land for centuries.
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The People vs. Amazon | Political Pandora
Both Amazon and the judicial system of South Africa have acted as neocolonial powers, employing colonial tactics to further dispossess the Khoisan people. In this case, Amazon as neocolonial infrastru...
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September 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Amazon is only the most recent adversary in the Khoisan’s long battle against cultural, socio-political, and economic erasure. The Khoisan people had been fighting for the memory and cultural significance of their language and their land for centuries.
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