Author: Ernest
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Hold on, the statue’s buffering: Virtual museums for a post-physical world
A shorter version of this article was first published with the Oxford Student. A submission of this essay won Trinity College’s Margaret Howard Prize (2020). It was a pleasant sunny afternoon in Bilbao on the day I paid a visit to the Guggenheim. I’d been planning for my trip to Spain three months prior, and it…
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Some memories from Hilary Term
It was a confusing term. Mostly I got work done, made time to hang with people I cared about, and attended plenty of interesting seminars and gigs (crossover forthcoming). We start in media res, at Halfway Hall. Three-year degrees are awfully short, especially when you’re having fun. There is action in the form of…
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Islam in Britain
On a rainy Friday I found myself in Woking, Surrey. Surrounded by a good number of grad students entrepreneurial enough to sign themselves up on a faculty-funded field trip, we first visited the Shah Jahan Mosque, and then the Muslim section of Brookwood Cemetery. The history of British Islam is fascinating but oft-overlooked (even by…
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Album Reviews: A Crow Looked At Me (Mount Eerie, 2017) and Donuts (J Dilla, 2006)
Having been introduced by a friend to A Crow Looked At Me after mentioning Donuts, I’ve since come to see many conceptual similarities between the two albums even as they’re musically very different. A bit of a background to both albums: They’re heavily concerned about death. Crow was written by Phil Elverum following the death…