Inklings: #17 - #24. (Print)

Big ideas to carry in your pocket. Treat yourself to our eight thought provoking Inklings titles for 2023-24. The full set includes:

• We're Falling Through Space: Doctor Who and Celebrating the Mundane by J. David Reed
  In We’re Falling Through Space, J. David Reed investigates how Doctor Who uses its larger-than-life lens to consider how the mundane is a lot more special than we might realise. As one of the Doctors put it, ‘Do you know, in nine hundred years of time and space, I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important before.’

• Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & the Criminalisation of UK Drill by Adèle Oliver
  Deeping It shines a critical light on UK drill and its fraught relationship with the British legal system. Intervening on current discourse steeped in anti-Blackness and moral panic, this Inkling ‘deeps’ how the criminalisation of UK drill cannot be disentangled from histories, technologies, and realities of colonialism, consumerism and more. 

• The Last Day Before Exile: Stories of Resistance, Displacement & Finding Home by Selin Bucak
  Tracing the steps of professionals who have moved from the Gaza Strip, Pakistan, Morocco, Iran, Afghanistan Turkey, and Ukraine, Selin Bucak shares stories of rebellion, fear, and, in some cases, victory.

• Machine Readable Me: The Hidden Ways Tech Shapes our Identities by Zara Rahman
  Identification tech gathers data on who we are, our behaviours, our likes and dislikes and much more, through profiling and biometics, amongst other methods. Corporations use these methods to try and make our identities legible to machines. But self-determination to change our identity is a core part of being human. Machine Readable Me asks how does being forced into artificial categories affect how we understand who we are? And what are the alternatives?

• All the Violet Tiaras: Queering the Greek Myths by Jean Menzies
  For a period in time that gave us Sappho, and the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the Ancient Greek relationship with queer folk is a lot more complicated than at first glance. Yet, as ancient historian and author Jean Menzies highlights in this book, ancient Greek myths are being told anew by LGBTQ+ writers and readers to explore modern day queer joy and queer struggles. They are queering the Greek myths.

• Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism by Heather Parry
  In the future, we’ll all be having sex with robots… won’t we? Roboticists say they’re a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and articles are written on the subject. Campaigns are even mounted against them. So why are sex robots such a hot topic? Electric Dreams picks apart the forces that posit sex robots as either the solution to our problems or a real threat to human safety, and looks at what’s being pushed aside for us to obsess about something that will never happen.

• Happy Death Club: Essays on Death, Grief & Bereavement Across Cultures by Naomi Westerman
  Playwright Naomi Westerman was an anthropology grad student studying death rituals around the world when her whole family died, turning death from the academic to the deeply personal. She struggled with grief and talking about, particularly as a young woman, realising while death is everywhere in our culture, grief is harder to find in specialist ways.

• Blitzkrieg Bops: A Brief History of Punks at War by Alli Patton
  What happens when aggressive, riotous punk music becomes the peacemaker? Chronicling a history of punks at war, Blitzkrieg Bops studies bands who have soundtracked a movement —including Pussy Riot, Stiff Little Fingers, National Wake, Wutanfall, Los Pinochet Boys, Rimtutitkui, The Kominas & more — creating music to overthrow corrupt governments, stomp out oppressive regimes, fight the establishment and, in turn, fight for their lives.

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