December, 2015

Graphite’s 2015 NYE Event Guide

As 2016 peeks out from above the horizon, people everywhere are left scrambling to pick up the pieces of 2015, prepare ambitious resolutions, and most importantly, choose a party to see the New Year off to a proper start. Here’s a list of some New Year’s Eve events to make your…

A Brief History of Phonic Isolationism

The headphone revolution is a quiet one. For as long as music has been made, it has held deeply social connotations: the compelling power to gather around groups of people sharing the same sounds and rhythms out loud. Now, music consumption is entirely controllable by the solo listener, capable of…

The Dark Side of the Green Revolution

The so-called “Green Revolution” was a massive shift in agricultural practices that began in the 1930s and found its culmination in the 1960s, by which time techniques such as the application of chemical fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides were industry standard throughout much of the world. That the changes in…

The Sound of Violence: Inside the Subversive World of Jihadi Hip-Hop

Is that really a thing? Since London-based rapper L Jinny decided to move to Syria in 2013 and was suspected of being the masked man in a video showing a British journalist being beheaded, many have been intrigued by the strange interplay between rap and radical military Islamist groups. Covered…

Rupture

Revolution requires rupture. In order to move forward we often have to let go of our pre-conceived notions of personhood and identity, and allow them to be torn apart. Sometimes this can feel violent and painful: resulting in a reluctance of many to let go and allow themselves to fall…

To Fight against Capitalism We Must Fight for Socialism!

Today the globe is completely dominated by big banks and multinational corporations. They own and control the economy and use their position of power and privilege to dominate the political process and control the world’s governments. Power is almost completely consolidated into the hands of the owners and large shareholders…

Salvaging Our Nuclear Dream from Nightmare

Conversations on nuclear power have frequently been coloured by extremes: speculative hope for the future, staged against fear stemming from the past. Long now the subject of research intent on its applications in renewable and clean energy in the long-term, nuclear power’s introduction to the world nonetheless remains unforgotten: a…