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Latest in ZC Blog Time Regained in a Vacuum Edward Learman writes through a sleepless night to trace the school memories, isolation and half-answers behind a decade of clinical depression. Edward Learman · 1 February 2016

31 Jan 2016 31 Jan 2016 A 21st Century Problem – Maintaining ‘A Room of One’s Own’ Yasmyn Shaikh takes Virginia Woolf's room of one's own into the 21st century, where debt and precarity make creative space ever harder to keep. Yasmyn Shaikh

21 Jul 2015 21 Jul 2015 Daniels Langeberg On Photography, Cycling & Exploration Urban designer Daniels Langeberg on how photography and cycling through Shanghai's megalopolis help him read cities and make better creative work. Daniels Langeberg

14 Apr 2015 14 Apr 2015 “You may house their bodies but not their souls” Taimour Fazlani reads Gibran against the tuition-fee system, arguing that debt and dogma are stripping the soul from British university learning. Taimour Fazlani

1 Mar 2015 1 Mar 2015 Peace ZOD Culture follows the word peace from Gandhi through the commodified counter-culture, asking what it still means beneath the branding. ZOD Culture Editorial Team

16 Apr 2014 16 Apr 2014 Doctoring What It Means To Be Desi An overheard Starbucks conversation leads Aryanna Prasad through the careers, marriages and expectations that define what it means to be desi. Aryanna Prasad

17 Mar 2014 17 Mar 2014 Jennifer McCord’s Passion For Live Music Photography Nineteen-year-old photographer Jennifer McCord on immortalising moments, the rawness of black and white, and her passion for shooting live music. Jennifer McCord

24 Feb 2014 24 Feb 2014 TRUTH, BELIEF & THE FLOATING CHRYSANTHEMUM The Involuntary Bystander separates truth from belief, tracing how personal certainty hardens past the point of sanity in faith, sport and science. The Involuntary Bystander

30 Jan 2014 30 Jan 2014 Have Your Voice Heard ZOD Culture opens the ZC Blog to emerging writers and visual artists, inviting generation Y creatives to showcase work and have their voices heard. ZOD Culture Editorial Team

11 Sept 2013 11 Sept 2013 Lina Silverman’s Open Letter To America Lina Silverman, raised across the Middle East by Foreign Service parents, writes an open letter to America about 9/11, identity and belonging. Lina Silverman

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