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The latest issue of the Zahir, with the theme of democracy, is out now! It’s available around campus at all the usual locations. The pdf is also now up and available in the pdf archive. If you’d like to write for the next issue or get involved in production, email us at zahir@yusu.org. much love, [...]

I find it perplexing that response to my last article (which, I might add, never so much as mentioned the word censorship) Matilda Marshall should conclude that I would have any kind problem with Joyce’s account of Bloom taking a dump. A fictional, non-sexual and non-degrading episode which   does not represent coprophilia. From one [...]

Matilda Marshall provides her response to the normalisation of pornography. “Pornography is not entitled to an unchallenged status of acceptance” writes Holly Phillips, and I am inclined to agree. Her article was not, however, an effective challenge to the problems of pornography. Ignorant at best and deceptive at worst, “From Page Three” simplified and flattened [...]

Hello, the pdf of the new issue of the Zahir is now live. Also available around campus at the moment, and again in January. Exciting. Zahir

With the subject of sex crime and violence as the feature, the new issue of the Zahir will be out soon. If you would like to write for the Zahir in the future please contact zahir@yusu.org (not exclusive to students). We are also looking for sponsors, if you are interested please contact us at the same [...]

With money as the feature, the latest issue of the Zahir is out now, go to the archive page at the top for full technicolour.

Welcome to the new Zahir website! Previous issues, new issues, competitions and news will all be appearing here shortly.

Given the extent to which metaphysics has been chased out of the lecture theatre, and indeed out of cultural theory itself in the past few decades, it may seem rather surprising for me to herald its return. And I do so not on the balance and tone of any purported majority of recent publications, but [...]