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Category: Reflections

Academic Year 2019-20

After a relatively quiet summer I’m getting ready for another packed academic year.

I got off to an early start by submitting my latest article ‘Trans-Participation: Resisting Brexit through networked thinking in immersive theatre’. It will hopefully be published in …

Author Joseph Dunne-HowriePosted on September 6, 2019July 27, 2020Categories ReflectionsTags Academia, Research, Teaching

Hannah Arendt and Digital Thinking

Hannah Arendt and Digital Thinking

I’ve recently read Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. It was a bestselling title on Amazon in 2017, a fact attributed to Trump’s election. But as the book makes clear totalitarian politics has no single or clear origin. No one …

Author Joseph Dunne-HowriePosted on February 13, 2019July 27, 2020Categories Reflections, UncategorizedTags Digital, Hannah Arendt, Post-truth, Research

Imagine…

Imagine browsing a bookshelf in a library or bookshop.

Now imagine a performace that browsed the world looking for audiences. It scans the shelves for peoplebooks, glancing at titlefaces.

Occasionally, an attractive fontface makes it stop.

Picking up the peoplebook, …

Author Joseph Dunne-HowriePosted on November 12, 2018July 27, 2020Categories Reflections, UncategorizedTags Performative Writing, Teaching

Regeneration

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If you enjoy nostalgia then find an old hard drive and get digging. I found this 2014 piece today. It’s a very early sketch of the Voices from the Village audio-walk I wrote for my PhD. I’d forgotten I’d …

Author Joseph Dunne-HowriePosted on September 17, 2018July 27, 2020Categories Reflections, UncategorizedTags Archives, Documentation, Regeneration, Research

Vade Mecum at Rose Bruford College

I teach a performative writing class on Rose Bruford’s MA in Actor and Performer Training. The activity of writing is considered performative in it’s capacity to create worlds out of language.  The students are tasked with creating a Vade Mecum …

Author Joseph Dunne-HowriePosted on May 9, 2018July 27, 2020Categories Reflections, UncategorizedTags Performative Writing, Teaching

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    In Blog
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    In Blog
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