Protected: Creativity and Kraken Beyond Time: Tennyson, and Florence + the Machine
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Victorian Recycling: The Dust‑Heap Economy
text by Magdalena Pypeć Old Harmon in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend amassed an enormous fortune as a dust contractor, as one of the characters explains: “On his own small estate the growling old vagabond threw up his own mountain range, like an old volcano, and its geological formation was Dust. Coal-dust, vegetable-dust, bone-dust, crockery-dust, rough […]
Victorian Echoes: The Remnants of the British Empire in Contemporary Singapore
text by Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz Nowadays, Singapore is mostly known as one of the Asian Tigers – a modern economic power that inspires awe with its futuristic buildings and clean streets. Singapore’s history, however, is much more complex and marked by colonialism, occupation, immigration and inequality. As a member of QAQV who got a chance to […]