Issue 32 (Winter 2025): Transformation
ARTWORK INFORMATION
‘Transformation’ – Katie McClure
The front and back cover designs of this issue of eSharp are derived by original paintings by Katie McClure (acrylic on canvas board, 2024) which have been digitised and digitally altered to increase contrast and canvas size.
Both covers depict the transformation of water between states, a melting ice cube (front) and a boiling kettle (back). These are reversible transformations we observe and interact with every day. The cover designs look toward the fluid nature of personal and societal experiences – which can rapidly transform from feeling solid and steady to fluctuating and uncontrollable.
Download the full issue: eSharp 32 'Transformation' (Winter 2025)
Editorial Board: Rebecca Alexander and Sara Stone.
Cover Artist: Katie McClure.
Table of Contents
| Author Biographies | 5 |
| Pastiches of Cultural Performance: Framed Clippings from the Magazine Female Mimics, 1963-1968 | 7 |
| ‘Mortal bodies and immortal science’: Gerard de Lairesse’s anatomical prints as mirrors to societal transformation | 30 |
| Liberation Through the Body’s Destruction: A Deleuzian Analysis of the Body in the Late-Capitalist Landscape of Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Cure (1997) and Pulse (2001) | 52 |
| “I don’t want to be delicious, I want to make them sick!” (Cade & MacAskill 2021, 1:12:00): Burgerz, The Making of Pinocchio, trans performance dramaturgies, and redefining the role of the cis spectator | 70 |
| The Gentrification of Cheryl Lavery in Fiona Mozley’s Hot Stew (2021) | 83 |
| Dimming the Grey: The Socio-cultural Recasting of Ageing Women in Chinese Translations of Jane Eyre | 98 |
| Straddling the Lines of Whiteness: Exploring Mixedness in a Binary World | 119 |