Essays on culture & society, and the oldest ideas in the sky. An independent magazine.https://zodculture.com/enhttps://zodculture.com/blog/breaking-bad-greatest-television-series-the-2026-case/https://zodculture.com/blog/breaking-bad-greatest-television-series-the-2026-case/The 2026 verdict on Breaking Bad: the finished arc, Ozymandias, a Guinness record and Better Call Saul build the definitive case for TV's greatest show.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTZOD Culture Editorial Teamhttps://zodculture.com/blog/the-lion-before-hercules-leo-from-babylon-to-nemea/https://zodculture.com/blog/the-lion-before-hercules-leo-from-babylon-to-nemea/The deep myth of Leo: Babylon's Great Lion in MUL.APIN, the Nemean beast Hercules strangled and skinned, and how one lion travelled from Sumer to Nemea.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTZOD Culture Editorial Teamhttps://zodculture.com/blog/leo-dates-traits-and-mythology/https://zodculture.com/blog/leo-dates-traits-and-mythology/Leo runs July 23 to August 22, at the height of summer. A guide to its dates, the Nemean Lion, and Regulus, the royal star at the heart of the constellation.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTZOD Culture Editorial Teamhttps://zodculture.com/blog/capricorn-dates-traits-and-mythology/https://zodculture.com/blog/capricorn-dates-traits-and-mythology/Capricorn runs December 22 to January 19, opening at the winter solstice. A guide to its dates, the Sumerian sea-goat, and the Tropic of Capricorn.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTZOD Culture Editorial Teamhttps://zodculture.com/blog/scorpio-dates-traits-and-mythology/https://zodculture.com/blog/scorpio-dates-traits-and-mythology/Scorpio runs October 23 to November 21. A culturally literate guide to its dates, cusp drift, traditional traits, Babylonian myth, and Ophiuchus.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTZOD Culture Editorial Teamhttps://zodculture.com/blog/time-regained-in-a-vacuum/https://zodculture.com/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.Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMTEdward Learmanhttps://zodculture.com/blog/a-21st-century-problem-maintaining-a-room-of-ones-own/https://zodculture.com/blog/a-21st-century-problem-maintaining-a-room-of-ones-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.Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTYasmyn Shaikhhttps://zodculture.com/blog/on-survival-lessons-from-a-festival-exploring-sexual-abuse/https://zodculture.com/blog/on-survival-lessons-from-a-festival-exploring-sexual-abuse/Tanaka Mhishi reports from Clear Lines, the UK's first festival exploring sexual violence and consent through theatre, art, comedy and discussion.Tue, 18 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMTTanaka Mhishihttps://zodculture.com/blog/daniels-langeberg-on-photography-cycling-and-exploration/https://zodculture.com/blog/daniels-langeberg-on-photography-cycling-and-exploration/Urban designer Daniels Langeberg on how photography and cycling through Shanghai's megalopolis help him read cities and make better creative work.Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMTDaniels Langeberghttps://zodculture.com/blog/to-see-an-ocean-of-dreams-in-a-mere-teardrop-as-wichita-falls/https://zodculture.com/blog/to-see-an-ocean-of-dreams-in-a-mere-teardrop-as-wichita-falls/After losing a friend to suicide, Benjamin Eli Levine writes on empathy through Chen Si, who patrols Nanjing's bridge to talk strangers back from the edge.Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMTBenjamin Eli Levinehttps://zodculture.com/blog/the-cost-of-a-pretty-penny/https://zodculture.com/blog/the-cost-of-a-pretty-penny/An unasked-for glass of tea leads Aryanna Prasad to examine beauty as women's unofficial currency and the real cost of a pretty penny.Tue, 09 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMTAryanna Prasadhttps://zodculture.com/blog/all-for-none-and-none-for-all-the-depressive-effects-of-western-progress/https://zodculture.com/blog/all-for-none-and-none-for-all-the-depressive-effects-of-western-progress/Aryanna Prasad links America's individualist creed to its silence around mental illness, where saying 'I need help' takes the greatest courage.Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMTAryanna Prasadhttps://zodculture.com/blog/not-all-men-misogynist-buzzwords-and-their-implications/https://zodculture.com/blog/not-all-men-misogynist-buzzwords-and-their-implications/Sam unpacks 'not all men' and other misogynist buzzwords, showing how each derails feminist criticism while posing as harmless common sense.Wed, 20 May 2015 00:00:00 GMTSamhttps://zodculture.com/blog/women-in-a-wasteland-george-millers-mad-max/https://zodculture.com/blog/women-in-a-wasteland-george-millers-mad-max/Anthony Laurence on the Mad Max franchise, whose gasoline-soaked masculinity gives way to Furiosa and the women of Fury Road's wasteland.Thu, 14 May 2015 00:00:00 GMTAnthony Laurencehttps://zodculture.com/blog/dear-fellow-humans-ge2015/https://zodculture.com/blog/dear-fellow-humans-ge2015/Elsie Bryant's letter to fellow humans before the 2015 election: a plea to vote with empathy for social justice, equality and the environment.Fri, 08 May 2015 00:00:00 GMTElsie Bryanthttps://zodculture.com/blog/why-dont-young-people-vote/https://zodculture.com/blog/why-dont-young-people-vote/The only sure thing about this year’s general election is uncertainty. But one thing seems set in stone – the majority of young people are not going to vote.Fri, 01 May 2015 00:00:00 GMTAlice Glynnhttps://zodculture.com/blog/you-may-house-their-bodies-but-not-their-souls/https://zodculture.com/blog/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.Tue, 14 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMTTaimour Fazlanihttps://zodculture.com/blog/why-zod-culture-matters-and-why-there-is-hope/https://zodculture.com/blog/why-zod-culture-matters-and-why-there-is-hope/One of our students is the founder and editor of ZOD Culture; other students have written for it. I admire them for what they do.Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMTDr. Michael Neuhttps://zodculture.com/blog/a-small-island-insight/https://zodculture.com/blog/a-small-island-insight/In this region of Melanesia, Islands are small states that get pushed around and often manipulated by powerful corporations.Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMTMuihttps://zodculture.com/blog/the-changing-cultural-paradigm/https://zodculture.com/blog/the-changing-cultural-paradigm/Ancoats, once Manchester’s industrial heartland, is now a test case for urban renewal where cultural planning, artist-led change, and gentrification collide.Tue, 03 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMTDaisy Kiddhttps://zodculture.com/blog/peace/https://zodculture.com/blog/peace/ZOD Culture follows the word peace from Gandhi through the commodified counter-culture, asking what it still means beneath the branding.Sun, 01 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMTZOD Culture Editorial Teamhttps://zodculture.com/blog/why-america-needs-black-history-month/https://zodculture.com/blog/why-america-needs-black-history-month/Every February, Black History Month returns to inspirit black innovators and remind white America that black lives matter.Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMTAryanna Prasadhttps://zodculture.com/blog/will-you-be-arrested-for-reading-this/https://zodculture.com/blog/will-you-be-arrested-for-reading-this/Jeffrey Hernandez reads the 2015 Counter-Extremism Bill and Cameron's vow that obeying the law will no longer keep the state out of your life.Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMTJeffrey Hernandezhttps://zodculture.com/blog/materialism-that-undermines-capitalism/https://zodculture.com/blog/materialism-that-undermines-capitalism/David Gould argues postmodern relativism disarms critique of capitalism, and that taking objects' value seriously is a materialism that resists.Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMTDavid Gouldhttps://zodculture.com/blog/would-you-shoot-the-president/https://zodculture.com/blog/would-you-shoot-the-president/Would you shoot the president to stop a nuclear strike? Elijah Joshua Pryor dissects the dilemma and what such questions reveal about morality.Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMTElijah Joshüa Pryorhttps://zodculture.com/blog/the-systematic-sexual-abuse-of-young-girls/https://zodculture.com/blog/the-systematic-sexual-abuse-of-young-girls/The Independent Inquiry CSE into Rotherham revealed that approximately 1400 children were sexually exploited in the borough situated in the South of Yorkshire.Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMTEmily Hoylehttps://zodculture.com/blog/sexism-in-the-media-and-its-violent-implications/https://zodculture.com/blog/sexism-in-the-media-and-its-violent-implications/After intervening to protect two girls from harassment, student Tugce was fatally attacked in Germany, framing this essay’s critique of sexism and violence.Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMTStop Bild Sexismhttps://zodculture.com/blog/the-importance-of-diversity-in-cinema/https://zodculture.com/blog/the-importance-of-diversity-in-cinema/Anthony Laurence on cinema's representation problem and why film must offer heroes and role models who are not, by default, white men.Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMTAnthony Laurencehttps://zodculture.com/blog/every-pair-of-jeans-has-its-story/https://zodculture.com/blog/every-pair-of-jeans-has-its-story/Taimour Fazlani looks past the style blogs' devotion to ask what fashion costs, tracing every pair of jeans back to the hands that made it.Tue, 06 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMTTaimour Fazlanihttps://zodculture.com/blog/education-and-power-i-machine-minds/https://zodculture.com/blog/education-and-power-i-machine-minds/Tom Moulton traces capitalism from feudal origins to a dominance so normalised that 9-to-5 work and excess consumption now pass for human nature.Tue, 23 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMTTom Moultonhttps://zodculture.com/blog/the-decline-of-richard-pryor-uncensored/https://zodculture.com/blog/the-decline-of-richard-pryor-uncensored/In 1986 Richard Pryor appeared on The Barbara Walters Specialas a different kind of character, his lissome features, slender, fractured and unseemly.Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMTHassan Quehttps://zodculture.com/blog/the-false-idols-series-part-i-lest-we-forget/https://zodculture.com/blog/the-false-idols-series-part-i-lest-we-forget/Dave Martin questions the remembrance ritual of 'lest we forget', asking what exactly we remember, why, and whom the ceremony really serves.Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMTDave Martinhttps://zodculture.com/blog/global-visionaries-erick-matsanza-spice-chungu/https://zodculture.com/blog/global-visionaries-erick-matsanza-spice-chungu/Orsod Malik speaks with Erick Matsanza and Spice Chungu, African visionaries whose work defies the West's bleak single story of the continent.Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMTOrsod Malikhttps://zodculture.com/blog/dear-college-kids-would-you-listen-to-samantha-white/https://zodculture.com/blog/dear-college-kids-would-you-listen-to-samantha-white/Aryanna Prasad watches Dear White People as a biracial student and asks whether Justin Simien's satire can make America talk honestly about racism.Fri, 17 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMTAryanna Prasadhttps://zodculture.com/blog/genocide-begins-with-the-silence-of-the-world/https://zodculture.com/blog/genocide-begins-with-the-silence-of-the-world/Zekarias Kebraeb is a human being who can fly because he has wings in his soul. To us Zekarias Kebraeb is an immigrant. Just an immigrant.Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMTBenjamin Eli Levinehttps://zodculture.com/blog/normativity-part-iii-ethnocentrism-and-normativity/https://zodculture.com/blog/normativity-part-iii-ethnocentrism-and-normativity/In 2014 the issue of identity is still one of relevance in Britain. Newspapers paraphrase Enoch Powell on a seemingly weekly basis.Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMTDave Martinhttps://zodculture.com/blog/normativity-part-ii-heteronormativity-and-the-lgbtqia-community/https://zodculture.com/blog/normativity-part-ii-heteronormativity-and-the-lgbtqia-community/Dave Martin examines heteronormativity and the UK's first same-sex marriages, asking which social norms still exclude the LGBTQIA community.Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMTDave Martinhttps://zodculture.com/blog/cgi-a-case-of-less-or-more/https://zodculture.com/blog/cgi-a-case-of-less-or-more/From Melies's 1902 moon voyage to CGI-saturated blockbusters, Anthony Laurence asks when cinema's special effects stopped being special.Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMTAnthony Laurencehttps://zodculture.com/blog/pornography-instructional-fantastical-or-neither/https://zodculture.com/blog/pornography-instructional-fantastical-or-neither/Jeremy Barras tests adult actresses' claims of empowerment against the industry's realities, asking if porn is instructional, fantasy or neither.Sat, 16 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMTJeremy Barrashttps://zodculture.com/blog/normativity-part-i-the-atheist-doctrine/https://zodculture.com/blog/normativity-part-i-the-atheist-doctrine/Dave Martin examines how forum atheism mirrors the religions it rejects, assembling a doctrine and narrative of its own from anti-theist polemic.Mon, 04 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMTDave Martinhttps://zodculture.com/blog/sabriye-tenberken-and-paul-kronenberg-facilitative-humanitarianism/https://zodculture.com/blog/sabriye-tenberken-and-paul-kronenberg-facilitative-humanitarianism/Orsod Malik interviews Sabriye Tenberken and Paul Kronenberg, whose Braille Without Borders and kanthari turn idealism into working humanitarianism.Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMTOrsod Malikhttps://zodculture.com/blog/my-cuban-luxury-privacy/https://zodculture.com/blog/my-cuban-luxury-privacy/In a bare Havana casa particular, Aryanna Prasad finds the one luxury America denies her: privacy in a country beyond US cultural imperialism.Mon, 28 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMTAryanna Prasadhttps://zodculture.com/blog/no-justice-no-peace-in-a-white-supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy/https://zodculture.com/blog/no-justice-no-peace-in-a-white-supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy/Benjamin Eli Levine traces 'no justice, no peace' from Rodney King to Mike Brown through bell hooks' white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMTBenjamin Eli Levinehttps://zodculture.com/blog/acknowledging-privilege/https://zodculture.com/blog/acknowledging-privilege/Oppression is a system in which one group maintains supremacy over another, simple enough. How exactly does one group maintain supremacy over another?Sun, 01 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMTOrsod Malikhttps://zodculture.com/blog/the-very-direct-democracy/https://zodculture.com/blog/the-very-direct-democracy/When UKIP backed referendums and recallable MPs, Dave Martin asked what direct democracy would really deliver for voters and the working class.Thu, 24 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMTDave Martinhttps://zodculture.com/blog/blink-and-youll-miss-it-6-films-you-may-have-missed-in-2013/https://zodculture.com/blog/blink-and-youll-miss-it-6-films-you-may-have-missed-in-2013/Anthony Laurence revisits six films of 2013 that slipped past the box office and the Academy, from Park Chan-wook's Stoker onward, all worth your time.Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMTAnthony Laurencehttps://zodculture.com/blog/doctoring-what-it-means-to-be-desi/https://zodculture.com/blog/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.Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMTAryanna Prasadhttps://zodculture.com/blog/the-melting-pot-myth/https://zodculture.com/blog/the-melting-pot-myth/A classmate's question about the melting pot leads Aryanna Prasad through August Wilson's plays to the myth at the heart of American diversity.Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMTAryanna Prasadhttps://zodculture.com/blog/the-new-great-migration-from-the-furnaces-to-the-basketball-court/https://zodculture.com/blog/the-new-great-migration-from-the-furnaces-to-the-basketball-court/Via Alfredo Vea's gods go begging, Jeremy Barras follows the new Great Migration from the furnaces to basketball courts sold as escape routes.Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMTJeremy Barrashttps://zodculture.com/blog/jennifer-mccords-passion-for-live-music-photography/https://zodculture.com/blog/jennifer-mccords-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.Mon, 17 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMTJennifer McCordhttps://zodculture.com/blog/from-the-depths-of-a-melting-pot-into-the-circles-of-a-neoliberal-inferno-part-i/https://zodculture.com/blog/from-the-depths-of-a-melting-pot-into-the-circles-of-a-neoliberal-inferno-part-i/Benjamin Eli Levine maps how neoliberal ideology and identity politics atomise us into cells of a panopticon while claiming to set us free.Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMTBenjamin Eli Levinehttps://zodculture.com/blog/truth-belief-and-the-floating-chrysanthemum/https://zodculture.com/blog/truth-belief-and-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.Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMTThe Involuntary Bystanderhttps://zodculture.com/blog/reviewing-the-most-recent-spike-jonze-masterpiece/https://zodculture.com/blog/reviewing-the-most-recent-spike-jonze-masterpiece/Hassan Que reviews Spike Jonze's Her, where Joaquin Phoenix's Theodore falls for an operating system in a luminous near-future Los Angeles.Sat, 15 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMTHassan Quehttps://zodculture.com/blog/a-response-to-tony-blairs-recent-contemptible-claim/https://zodculture.com/blog/a-response-to-tony-blairs-recent-contemptible-claim/Jeremy Barras answers Tony Blair's claim that religious difference, not ideology, will fuel this century's battles, and finds it contemptible.Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMTJeremy Barrashttps://zodculture.com/blog/feminism-challenging-basic-conceptions/https://zodculture.com/blog/feminism-challenging-basic-conceptions/Orsod Malik leaves a Brighton lecture on women's liberation startled by how many of his peers still resist the basic conceptions of feminism.Sat, 01 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMTOrsod Malikhttps://zodculture.com/blog/have-your-voice-heard/https://zodculture.com/blog/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.Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMTZOD Culture Editorial Teamhttps://zodculture.com/blog/the-tale-of-dexter-morgan/https://zodculture.com/blog/the-tale-of-dexter-morgan/Anthony Laurence looks back on Dexter at the end of its eight-season run, asking how television's blood-spattered antihero lost his way.Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMTAnthony Laurencehttps://zodculture.com/blog/duggans-just-deserts-or-have-we-deserted-justice/https://zodculture.com/blog/duggans-just-deserts-or-have-we-deserted-justice/Oliver Brooks dissects the inquest that ruled Mark Duggan's shooting lawful and asks what an unarmed man's death means for British justice.Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMTOliver Brookshttps://zodculture.com/blog/slut-shaming-and-the-censorship-of-music-videos/https://zodculture.com/blog/slut-shaming-and-the-censorship-of-music-videos/Emily Hoyle takes on slut-shaming and the calls to censor music videos, asking why Miley Cyrus became the scapegoat for a sexualised culture.Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMTEmily Hoylehttps://zodculture.com/blog/a-british-graduates-summer-in-shanghai/https://zodculture.com/blog/a-british-graduates-summer-in-shanghai/A British graduate recounts an internship summer in Shanghai, where crowded metros, new customs and a paradoxical culture reshaped his view of work.Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMTWilliam Murphyhttps://zodculture.com/blog/what-the-fuck-is-a-jay-electronica/https://zodculture.com/blog/what-the-fuck-is-a-jay-electronica/Jeremy Barras chases the mystery of Jay Electronica, hip hop's engineered enigma who built a legend from anonymity and a single mixtape.Wed, 30 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMTJeremy Barrashttps://zodculture.com/blog/jeff-nichols-mud-and-idea-recycling/https://zodculture.com/blog/jeff-nichols-mud-and-idea-recycling/Anthony Laurence admires Jeff Nichols' Mud, then traces its debt to Dickens' Great Expectations and asks when homage becomes idea recycling.Thu, 24 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMTAnthony Laurencehttps://zodculture.com/blog/has-the-us-supreme-court-just-induced-a-pharmaceutical-game-of-russian-roulette/https://zodculture.com/blog/has-the-us-supreme-court-just-induced-a-pharmaceutical-game-of-russian-roulette/Karen Bartlett lost her skin and sight to a routine anti-inflammatory drug; Jeremy Barras asks how the US Supreme Court left patients unprotected.Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMTJeremy Barrashttps://zodculture.com/blog/vince-gilligans-breaking-bad-is-it-the-greatest-television-show-of-all-time/https://zodculture.com/blog/vince-gilligans-breaking-bad-is-it-the-greatest-television-show-of-all-time/Anthony Laurence weighs Breaking Bad against television's best and asks whether Vince Gilligan's meth-lab tragedy is the greatest show ever made.Fri, 20 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMTAnthony Laurencehttps://zodculture.com/blog/the-female-gaze-women-viewing-sexualised-women/https://zodculture.com/blog/the-female-gaze-women-viewing-sexualised-women/Emily Hoyle asks why women look at sexualised women, from lingerie campaigns to magazine covers aimed at a female, not male, audience.Thu, 19 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMTEmily Hoylehttps://zodculture.com/blog/tom-johnson-and-jack-edens-another-britain-project/https://zodculture.com/blog/tom-johnson-and-jack-edens-another-britain-project/What makes you British? Does being of an ethnic minority make you less British? How about your religious beliefs? How has Britain's national identity changed?Sun, 15 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMTOrsod Malikhttps://zodculture.com/blog/the-dissension-between-western-actions-and-western-values/https://zodculture.com/blog/the-dissension-between-western-actions-and-western-values/Mark Richards charts the widening gap between Western governments' professed values and their record of military intervention and security policy.Sat, 14 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMTMark Richardshttps://zodculture.com/blog/ornamental-islam/https://zodculture.com/blog/ornamental-islam/Riding through London toward Ibrahim El-Salahi's Tate exhibition, Hassan Que finds in Islamic art a free form of worship beyond tradition.Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMTHassan Quehttps://zodculture.com/blog/a-report-regarding-the-recent-inscrutable-events-in-syria/https://zodculture.com/blog/a-report-regarding-the-recent-inscrutable-events-in-syria/Jeremy Barras asks whether Western strikes over Assad's sarin attack would extinguish Syria's 'moral obscenity' or simply ignite a deadlier fire.Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMTJeremy Barrashttps://zodculture.com/blog/lina-silvermans-open-letter-to-america/https://zodculture.com/blog/lina-silvermans-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.Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMTLina Silvermanhttps://zodculture.com/blog/vanessa-omoregies-camgirls-project/https://zodculture.com/blog/vanessa-omoregies-camgirls-project/Vanessa Omoregie explains her CamGirl Project, which pairs Renaissance paintings with internet selfies to reframe how girls see themselves online.Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMTZOD Culture Editorial Teamhttps://zodculture.com/blog/frankly-its-deeper-than-the-ocean/https://zodculture.com/blog/frankly-its-deeper-than-the-ocean/Hassan Que dives into Frank Ocean's Channel Orange, an ice-cold corridor between hedonistic dreams and his own lukewarm middle-class world.Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMTHassan Quehttps://zodculture.com/blog/nothing-was-the-same-he-says/https://zodculture.com/blog/nothing-was-the-same-he-says/Orsod Malik reviews Drake's Nothing Was the Same from Los Angeles, the final stop on the modern artist's pilgrimage in search of inspiration.Sun, 01 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMTOrsod Malikhttps://zodculture.com/blog/cinemas-declining-middle-class-why-have-studios-stopped-taking-risks/https://zodculture.com/blog/cinemas-declining-middle-class-why-have-studios-stopped-taking-risks/Matt Spencer-Skeen argues Hollywood now funds only tent-pole franchises and Oscar bait, abandoning the mid-budget films where risk once thrived.Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTMatt Spencer-Skeenhttps://zodculture.com/blog/celebritism-and-cronenbergs-antiviral/https://zodculture.com/blog/celebritism-and-cronenbergs-antiviral/Following in the footsteps of your father is never a meningeal task, especially when your father is acclaimed filmmaker David Cronenberg.Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTAnthony Laurencehttps://zodculture.com/blog/the-contextualisation-of-fiction/https://zodculture.com/blog/the-contextualisation-of-fiction/Matt Spencer-Skeen asks why Hollywood villains built from the West's real fears have become as beloved as the heroes who defeat them.Sun, 18 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTMatt Spencer-Skeenhttps://zodculture.com/blog/is-the-excuse-for-ignorance-inexorable/https://zodculture.com/blog/is-the-excuse-for-ignorance-inexorable/After Lee Rigby's murder, Jeremy Barras confronts the reflex to damn Islam wholesale and asks whether the excuse for ignorance is inexorable.Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTJeremy Barrashttps://zodculture.com/blog/raunchy-role-models-and-the-women-who-look-up-to-them/https://zodculture.com/blog/raunchy-role-models-and-the-women-who-look-up-to-them/Emily Hoyle asks why young women idolise pop's hypersexualised stage acts and what raunch culture sold as girl power teaches its youngest fans.Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTEmily Hoylehttps://zodculture.com/blog/the-music-industrys-altering-digital-landscape/https://zodculture.com/blog/the-music-industrys-altering-digital-landscape/Over the past decade the music industry has continuously adapted and evolved in order to survive the transition from analogue to digital.Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTMark Richardshttps://zodculture.com/blog/what-does-zimmermans-acquittal-mean-for-america/https://zodculture.com/blog/what-does-zimmermans-acquittal-mean-for-america/Benjamin Eli Levine asks what George Zimmerman's acquittal for killing Trayvon Martin reveals about race and justice in post-King-dream America.Sun, 11 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTBenjamin Eli Levine