Being Poor is Expensive: Bashy’s new album showcases all that’s important about Black music today
The rapper and actor’s latest album, which he began during the pandemic, joins the dots from Windrush and lovers rock to contemporary rap.
The rapper and actor’s latest album, which he began during the pandemic, joins the dots from Windrush and lovers rock to contemporary rap.
In this contribution to Bulletin 28, ISRF Director of Research Christopher Newfield uses his recent experience with an AI-powered translation app to think through the challenges facing the humanities.
Former ISRF Fellow Paul Dobraszczyk looks at forms of architecture that are suited for habitation by both human and non-human animals.
In this contribution to ISRF Bulletin 25, Eleanor Jupp explores the meaning and longer-term significance of mutual aid practices that flourished during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In this contribution to ISRF Bulletin 25, Sarah Marie Hall argues that crises do not just impact on everyday life but also have a social life of their own.
What we can learn from squatters, climate protestors and desert hippies.
In this contribution to ISRF Bulletin 23, Sonya A. Grier asks what the storefront of a local cannabis dispensary in Washington, D.C. can tell us about the state of contemporary (Black) capitalism.
In this contribution to ISRF Bulletin 23, Naa Oyo A. Kwate asks what a 1981 picture of a derelict McDonald’s franchise in Compton, California, can tell us about the broader history of racialised deindustrialisation.
Dead cities are enduring images in post-apocalyptic literature and cinema.
