I first heard Laurian Anderson’s album Big Science in about 1983 and have been hooked to her ever since. Her storytelling is very important…...

The Screen Media Reader edited by Stephen Monteiro (Goodreads) -pg. 1 Screens are in our hand or close by for all manner of everyday activity, shaping and reshaping what we do and how we do it. Over the course of a day we may have more face-to-face encounters with...

Timotheus Vermeulen is a professor of media, culture and society at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the co-founder of the now defunct webzine Notes on Metamodernism and a regular contributor to frieze. His research and teaching are primarily in the disciplines of ‘screen studies’ and ‘critical and...

The System of Objects by Jean Baudrillard (Goodreads). This bit really jumped out at me. When Baudrillard wrote this- published in 1968 – he was obviously not aware of how the web would change how people conceptualise themselves and other people. We DO now feel like we are able...

Social Warming by Charles Arthur (Goodreads)...

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell (Goodreads)...

We are in this feedback loop, we condense our life into a trite tweet or a ‘pretty’ picture while constantly searching for ‘likes’ and ‘friends’ and ‘followers’. If we post about #Red and it gets more interaction than if we post about #Blue, we’ll end up posting more about...

This blew my mind when I first read it in the late 90s. It still blows my mind now....

A free Yale course, 24 lectures on Dante’s Divine Comedy… I am slowly going through this course. I decided to start watching these lectures because the Divine Comedy came up again in something I read and then I saw a link to this course on Twitter. There are no...

I’m continuing to avoid doing anything for my MA…. which isn’t great… Instead, I’ve been reading (currently ‘Remainder’ by Tom McCarthy) and learning how to darn socks. If you were given cashmere socks for Christmas, you should learn how to darn socks, too, cos those things will have holes...

I love how this weird, momentary glitch in the live in-camera translation of Google translate shows you two worlds in one image… Yet they have taken on the characteristics of their opposite. The real world appears ordered and the digital world is chaotic…...

I’ve had a busy/tricky couple weeks which has included a couple plumbers, a trip to hospital and having to put one of our cats down. On the plus side, it’s also included The Beatles’ ‘Get Back’ – a week before it came out we went to a special premiere...

This week we have to do a 20 minute talk on something we’ve read that has been inspiring or is helping us with our work. I went to my bookshelf the other day to grab Simulacra and Simulation, as that has been the most interesting book I’ve read/been reading....

15 November 2021 with Jonathan I talked about how I want to put up some ‘boundaries’ so that I will ‘be allowed to/be forced to’ dig deeper into the stuff I’m looking into. It’s very easy for me to flit along finding new things to be interested in and...

I pushed this too far… and earlier versions aren’t particularly good… Hmmmm. There are some nice stills, but other than that: Fail. I used a video which recorded a film projected onto a cinema screen. I put this video on my computer and made the video as small as...