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22 Aug

Exploring the mind-body problem and rise of body anxiety

For hundreds of years, philosophers and psychologists have fought over the mind-body connection and this relationship continues to be just as fraught today. From the ‘obesity crisis’ to gender fluidity, the ways during which our psychological self pertains to the physical is complex and contentious. Within the seventeenth century, René Descartes argued that the mind exists individually from the body and that the body cannot think. Such dualist considering has been the dominant attitude toward the body ever since encouraging us to take care of the considering mind and dismiss that which is corporeal. The truth is, quite worryingly psychoanalyst Susie Orbach argues we are moving towards a dematerialised existence where every part we understand about living, “will occur within the realm...

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22 Aug

Performance artist Scottee: we want to quit fat shaming

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Performance artist Scottee: we want to quit fat shaming

I grew up in Kentish Town in North London, now the house of bouji 20-somethings hooked on kombucha. Back then, within the early noughties, it was the fifteenth most deprived area of the country, with child poverty at 40.3%. I used to be one in all those kids. I grew up poor and in social housing. I used to be the kid and grandchild of Irish migrants who consequently of poverty, social exclusion and trauma lived with tricky relationships with food, booze and medicines. I adopted a few of their addictions and made poverty shame my very own. In consequence I grew up as, and still am, what doctors call ‘morbidly obese’. As an adolescent I did all the pieces to not...

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22 Aug

Nike’s recent ad featuring armpit hair gets called “disgusting”

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Nike’s recent ad featuring armpit hair gets called “disgusting”

From Rihanna proudly Instagramming an image of her leg hair last summer to Ashley Armitage’s campaign for razor brand Billie – the primary ad of its kind to truly show body hair – we’re finally getting the representation we'd like in the case of body hair. Now, Nike has change into the most recent brand to hitch the conversation with their recent ad featuring Nigerian-America singer Annahastasia together with her arm raised to disclose a small patch of hair on her armpits. Initially, the campaign was met with praise. “That is incredible 👏” said lifestyle and fitness influencer @oenone. "We'd like more freedom on this world to do what we are going to with our bodies without someone attempting to shame" said...

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21 Aug

Lucy McRae combines art and science to probe the

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Lucy McRae combines art and science to probe the

What happens to the body when technology is enacted upon it? When it enters our body, once we start wearing it, once we start eating it? It’s a matter that's becoming more relevant as we turn out to be increasingly intimate with technology, and our bodies are being consistently mediated by machines - what are AirPods, for instance, if not aural implants? Absent of any wires they will sit in your ears all day, eliminating the seam between the body and the machine. The boundaries are collapsing and it's these points of interface and instability that artist Lucy McRae is concerned about. Part artist, part scientist, part futurist, McRae created the title “Body Architect” for herself as a option to encompass...

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