Apple’s new commercial shows an array of artistic objects crushed under the pressure of a mechanical compactor. The crushing strength of the compactor slowly presses against paint buckets, musical instruments, sketchbooks, journals, sculptures, recording sets, and camera lenses. Each object collapses under the weight of the compactor as they are
In a world where the shadows of racial otherness and prejudice loom large, one might ask: are we the architects of the very monsters we fear? From the haunting echoes of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to the piercing truths of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, the question of responsibility reverberates—are
The Plague, by Albert Camus, tells the story of a fictional plague running rampant within Oran, a coastal city in North Africa, and its impact on the city’s residents. Residents of Oran begin struggling to cope amid the situation as their entire way of life is uprooted by the onslaught