I’d been reading around ideas apropos decolonising the curriculum for a little while, but Black Lives Matter made me sit up and pay attention and compelled me to engage with the movement with a greater level of rigour .I first …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …