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The author of this blog is Trevor Pateman. I have purchased all the books reviewed here except a very few noted as sent to me. My own books are cheapest at blackwells.co.uk and are usually on Amazon. I can be found at academia.edu but do not have an X account and never used Twitter; that is another Trevor Pateman.

Tuesday, 9 October 2018

Review: Ali Smith, Winter

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This is one of those books I picked up from the Waterstones table. I knew the name Ali Smith but had not read any of her work; nor d...
Thursday, 4 October 2018

Review: Jean Baudrillard The System of Objects

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This book was published fifty years ago in 1968 as Le Système des Objets. It was a doctoral dissertation, examined by Roland Barthes...
Thursday, 13 September 2018

Review: Jacqueline Yallop, Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves

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This is an interesting, well-written book about top end collecting in Victorian England, nicely presented with big print and proper s...
Tuesday, 11 September 2018

A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Change

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I am being a bit cheeky. The long academic essay below does not belong here, but I am parking it here on 11 September 2018 as an experimen...
Sunday, 26 August 2018

Review: Kapka Kassabova Border

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It’s much easier to read a book about something you already know something about; harder when you are ignorant and so have to simult...
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The Return of Radical Philosophy

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The following (improved) version was posted on 19 July 2020 and replaces the original 2018 piece: I had a partner who teased me wheneve...
Saturday, 4 August 2018

It's Official: I'm an Author

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It's official. I'm an Author. This morning I googled my name (in scare quotes) and there on the right side of the page is a...
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