Wednesday, 21 November 2018

Review: Anna Burns Milkman

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Now I couldn’t have made it up and you couldn’t have made it up which is two reasons why Milkman ought to have won the Man Booker P...
Saturday, 17 November 2018

Review: Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens, Philosophy and Conceptual Art

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When I reviewed Sara Baume’s A Line Made By Walking on this blog ( 22 April 2018) it got me thinking again about conceptual art, somethin...
Sunday, 4 November 2018

Academic Publishing in Olden Times - and Now

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I suppose everyone remembers their first time. Mine was in the pages of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research which in 1973 printed my ...
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...