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Book cover of "Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers" by Caroline Fraser. The design features a monochrome photo of a man's face—partially obscured—with a superimposed industrial landscape and plume of smoke, blending the imagery of a serial killer with a polluted, foreboding environment. The title is in bold yellow text at the top, and the author's name appears at the bottom in yellow, noting her as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Prairie Fires".

The Crazy Wall

Caroline Fraser’s Murderland dismantles the voyeurism of true crime by tracing serial murder not to aberrant monsters but to the poisoned infrastructures, institutional apathy, and cultural amnesia that made their violence possible.

Urban Wanderings: Keiller’s Cinematic Psychogeography

Patrick Keiller’s Robinson trilogy explores modern Britain through a psychogeographic lens, revealing how landscapes shape collective psychology. The films expose spaces that reflect political and social forces underlying the nation’s fractures.

Painting to represent late capitalism

The System

As the illusion of late-capitalist society shrouds the world, a collective of young radicals emerges, daring to confront prevailing ideologies and carve out an ecosocialist path. Their journey disrupts the hegemonic narrative, unearthing a tale of resistance, interconnectedness, and the unyielding quest for emancipation.