Perspectives is Zamyn’s on-line collection of thought and visual interpretation, which examines the current and future dynamics between globalisation, corporate activity and culture. The work, which may include visual art, film, cultural theory and audio encourages critical reflection and alternative ways of seeing by exploring and questioning accepted ideas and concepts.

Benjamin Barber
Equality as a race to the bottom in a world after sovereignty
There have been several significant milestones that mark crucial changes in the nature and role of sovereignty. These changes have in turn impacted the relationship between center and periphery…

Norman Bryson
Health
Health is not a matter that belongs to an elite of experts, for the good reason that the matter of health interacts in intricate ways with the whole complexity of cultural life, in specific times and places…

Bernard Burgoyne
Analysing the Corporation
Among the various pathways open to corporations in the modern world, some acquire their direction and their strength from their relation to culture. In a world communicating, interacting and changing in increasingly complex ways, corporations are major agents and receptors of cultural change…

Augustus Casely-Hayford
Currency Cultural Exchange
It has been said by a number of historians that the 19th and 20th centuries began to reveal their big themes within a handful of years… but it was a number of creative visionaries who began to map out what the subtle cultural ramifications of these changes might be…

Paul Gilroy
Planetary Mentalities
This concept expresses a commitment to fostering new ways of seeing and valuing our delicate and imperilled relationships with our environments and each other…

Zamyn's Interpretation of Migration
Migration is purposeful human movement. It promotes unpredictable cultural mixture and extensive economic activity. The settled order of the world’s imperial and colonial systems was itself unsettled by migration. Different patterns of migrancy are now intrinsic to globalisation…

David Held
Catalysts: Information Technology and Telecommunication Companies
The movement of ideas began with people travelling. For millennia, human beings have migrated and have taken their cultures with them. The spread of the world’s great religions illustrates how ideas and beliefs can cross continents and transform societies…

Darian Leader
Convergences of art and psychoanalysis
How works of art interpellate their viewers is a question posed by most contemporary art theorists and critics. In contrast to much of the discourse around aesthetics of the past, we assume today that works of art pose questions in themselves…

Cultural Currencies: Limits and Conversations
Although the notion of currency is usually associated with the financial system of a given society, its scope is far wider, encompassing not only financial units of exchange but created objects, ideas and even desires…

Florian Schneider
Collaboration: the dark side of the multitude
Collaboration is a practice driven by complex realities rather than romantic notions of a common ground or commonality. It is an ambivalent process constituted by a set of paradoxical relationships between co-producers who affect each other...

Yinka Shonibare
The Wanderer [PDF]

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Why does Zamyn place 'Culture' at the Centre of its Analysis?
Every definition or description of culture comes from the cultural assumptions of the investigator. Euro-US academic culture, shared, with appropriate differences, by elite academic culture everywhere, is so widespread and powerful that it is thought of as transparent and capable of reporting on all cultures…