darkmatter Journal

William Allan, The Slave Market, Constantinople, 1838, National Gallery of Scotland

Around about the time when digital torture porn from Abu Ghraib established racialised sadism and hardcore sexual violence as the aesthetic co-ordinates of contemporary western imperialism, someone…

Back in the day (well, the seventies and eighties at least), one of
the more puzzling aspects of the 36 bus ride from Lewisham to
Paddington was the nature and frequency of the sectarian banter
aboard. ‘Blubber…

I blame Yinka Shonibare MBE. I would never have got into a row with the director of the Musee de Quai Branly over ‘the colour’ of his workforce if it hadn’t been for the British Nigerian artist. In fact I…