text by Dorota Osińska When Alfred Tennyson published ‘The Kraken’ in 1830, he gave Victorian poetry one of its most ambiguous images of hidden power, unaffected by history, culture, and human consciousness. Almost two centuries later, Florence + the Machine released ‘Kraken’ (Everybody Scream, 2025), a song that (consciously or not) reanimates this mythic beast […]
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 […]
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 […]
