My daughter E is doing something for the first time and showing me. She explains that this is the way she usually does it. She has no way of doing it though, she is just doing it. I ask her if that is the case, does she have a way to do it or is …
Monthly archives: October 2012
day dreaming
humans around a fire and a human from the future arrives they capture and kill the visitor later, become the visitor, they kill themselves throwing them on the flames is what i day dreamed
wood blewits
I’ve captured some wood blewits freed from the earth. The year ended here but I’ve yet to finish with them. The issue is not one of faith but how to avoid it. Temptation is heaven born, all the more delightful for that. So, eyes open till the end, violet like leaves on the forest …
ruskin the cataloguer
I went on a tour of the Ruskin Gallery and stores with Louise Pullen curator and archivist of the Ruskin Collection.
contest and context
A conversation with J: Me: I’ve taken the lead on a campaign to negotiate with the Council to keep our local Park House open and in community use. J: That’s so good, to be involved in some form of activism. Me: Activism today is different to the past. There was a time that the activist …
paracademia
Paracademia is where you bring academic knowledge to work in fields not strictly academic, or where the non-academic works within academia as a partner. The paracademic is ever more present as on one hand academic paid work is in retreat and on the other academia is obliged by new regimes to engage with the outside …