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On January 6th, 2021, using the paranoia and widespread resentment of his followers, former president Trump rallied a group of malcontents to storm the Capitol building in Washington D.C. By anal...

https://artsone.arts.ubc.ca/student-journal/sovereigns-and-slave-morality/

By putting Fanon's insights into conversation with recent scholarly works, not only are we shown how psychological mechanisms have influenced his experiences, but are also invited to consider how...

https://artsone.arts.ubc.ca/student-journal/colonial-legacies-reclamation-ones-identity/

Religious texts wield great authoritative value and the Upanisad’s themselves are central to many well-respected modern spiritual ideals and traditions. As such, it is not unlikely for one to t...

https://artsone.arts.ubc.ca/student-journal/trigger-warning/

While Hobbes’s conception of a sovereign appears contradictory to liberty, this paper posits that his notion of the sovereign aligns with his desire to secure liberty. For Hobbes, liberty is on...

https://artsone.arts.ubc.ca/student-journal/the-illusion-of-liberty/

In both Mary, A Fiction, and Antigone it is clear that the cultures viewed women as being lesser, depicting them as unreasoning dependents on the men at the centre of their lives. The titular cha...

https://artsone.arts.ubc.ca/student-journal/what-makes-a-feminist/

The journey from conformity to autonomy exemplifies how Mary and Absal become aware of and challenge regimes of truth in their societies, demonstrating its limitations on the self-authority of bo...

https://artsone.arts.ubc.ca/student-journal/escape-the-echo/

A woman’s influence is subtle, unacknowledged, and limited to the private home life. The magistrates’ influence is public, and Rousseau insists that magistrates be obeyed and openly praised f...

https://artsone.arts.ubc.ca/student-journal/housewives-vs-magistrates/

Tommo’s confinement aboard the vessel and in the valley are almost antithetical to one another: the circumstances that make his confinement aboard the vessel unbearable are completely gone in t...

https://artsone.arts.ubc.ca/student-journal/social-confinement/

Gathering the debris of discontent from the corners of history, it is through the agency of modern literature that a looking-glass is held up to the human condition—treading along the interplay...

https://artsone.arts.ubc.ca/student-journal/navigating-the-discontents-of-civilisation/

One may live one’s entire life, and in hypothesis the span of many lives beyond it, and still never come to terms with the simple fact that existence is narrated retrospectively. As much as one...

https://artsone.arts.ubc.ca/student-journal/divine-funerals/