Some time ago in a sitting room in France with some British friends I was looking at the photos, prints and paintings hanging on the walls. I had began a conversation with them about the idea that the natural world, the landscape, nature shared important attributes with God, perhaps the Old Testament God who had …
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the litterer and i
I was out walking on Tuesday, well, I stopped the car and clambered into a small wasteland, once the site of pigeon lofts.
collaboration is uncomfortable
Writing about collaboration again in the context of socially constructive arts practice, that is work done by artists which is supposed to have some sort of beneficial impact on a specific social environment. I’m very suspicious of all collaboration! aren’t you? When we fall in love we do things together and then we don’t and …
digging hoe, beche, binette
We’ve started digging the plot. DD has taken the lead, a farmer from Ghana, he is showing me how to work the garden using my digging hoe. This was bought in Spain from a Chinese shop. It is a very different way to work the ground from the ways I have learned. DD works across …
angel
Is this an evangelical graffiti artist? A lesbian angel? Parson Cross, Sheffield.
the poly-technic
In response to the encroaching privatisation and cost of University in England, there is a movement to found Free Universities. Some friends working in North Sheffield around Parson Cross have recently been awarded an Arts Council grant and as part of their work they are founding a Poly-Technic. In the past Universities were the better …
jeremy *unt, james naughtie and the big other
Another line of Zizek’s is illustrated by the spoonerism of James Naughtie on the Today programme. James Naughtie is barely, but just about manages, to suppress his hysterical laughter. Everyone who has heard the clip knows he is pissing himself laughing and covering it with a cough. I have heard no criticism of him for …
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breivik and meditation
Today I was listening to a talk by Zizek relayed on youtube. In it he spends time, as ever, trying to describe the big other. He uses Freud’s idea of the drive and in the case of sight he notes that Freud considers drive to be reflexive, mentioning the French reflexive form of the verb …
yoga is relaxing
muppets the film
This is a film that starts with emotional retardation at it’s heart, a lack of passion, indeed it’s impossibility. The hero, Walter is an introvert as well as being a muppet who discovers his muppetness in the film and, of course, his happiness at the same time.