Representations of the Intellectual - Edward Said gift card The presence of self doubt

The presence of self doubt is deeply felt when trying to compile a collection of photographs that have endured an endless process of revision and recompilation

The artist makes the case for a radical rethinking of the visual arts and the further development of photographic design to keep pace with a radically changing technological modernity

The cover artwork is a series of stills from Al Qadiri’s film DIVER (2018)

While the bodies of our Madrileño boys are being shared

but as the world becomes darker

Representations of the Intellectual - Edward Said gift card The presence of self doubtAre intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers addresses this question with extraordinary eloquence. Said sees the intellectual as an exile and amateur whose role it is 'to speak the truth to power' even at the risk of ostracism or imprisonment. Drawing on the examples of Jonathan Swift and Theodor