Advice on Television
When I came to write up my Ph.D thesis about TV in India, mid 90s, I soon realised that the moral nervousness about the medium in India was the playing […]
The Unknown Citizen
In the time before a well developed market research industry, neuroscience, Big Data etc there were, perhaps, unknown and unknowable citizens: He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to […]
Boiled Eggs and Actor Network Theory
A poem by Baron Wormser What a person desires in life is a properly boiled egg.This isn’t as easy as it seems.There must be gas and a stove, the gas requires pipelines, […]
The 'burbs
The suburbs. Victims of abuse and scorn and the net curtain twitching middle classes. A new exhibition at the London Transport Museum explores the suburbs and Joe Moran, that ethnographer of the […]
For some reasons….
For a bunch of reasons, none of which I'm willing to say more about here, the following words from one of Seamus Heaney's most commented upon poems struck a chord […]
Rebeginment
We recently ran a small workshop, or gathering, to discuss 're-inventing retirement'. One of the attendees mentioned a poem that Brendan Kennelly had written on the subject of retirement as a […]
Christmas Inside
Death Row, Luzeera Jail What do they spell, the fairy lights draping the yard outside the cells? A daily Christmas? Unwrapping the surprises before dawn? Another day isn't, for everyone, […]