Thank you to everyone who came along last night to the lecture, it was a full house and a patient crowd; it was a very dense lecture. But it seemed to be well received and I think people’s questions showed a lot had sunk in. Thank you again to Janice Harding and her wonderful Universettee for

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I saw an unfortunate/fortunate juxtaposition of documentaries on my mother’s TV yesterday. The first was about the mysterious disappearance of the Neanderthals, the second about the ways science was used to justify racism in the 20th century. It showed how social darwinism led up to the Nazi death camps, that they were not an abberation in European thinking.

This is a celebration post, as we just recieved delivery of our UV exposure unit at our print workshops. I think we might name it ‘the ark of the covenant’ as it is a quite imposing and potentially dangerous box. For those who don’t know, it is a machine for transferring our original artworks onto

So the final day came along. I had an interesting chat with a couple of students. One was complaining about how Zizek said nothing new and went on about irrelevent debates, and was totally inaccurate. Then he proceeded to get his recording equipment out. Why? So he can waste his time twice over? They both

Just a brief preface in response to a question I was asked recently. Why am I so interested in the ideas of this atheist? Is it just because he returns to Christianity and sees some value in it to be plundered, like when new technology allows us to reopen a spent mine-shaft? Partly; I actually

Today was more difficult; Hegel, with whom I am not familiar. It was very stimulating. I was particularly interested in  the idea that you can’t say an idea got distorted in the execution. The idea is precisely how good it turns out to be in execution; in its distorted state. So if there is something

Kerry, David and myself enrolled on the Zizek masterclass at Birkbeck these next four days, a slightly nervous experience for myself, not because of anyone present; just the experience of being in a higher education institution again. It was a good lecture; as expected oblique. It was on the emancipatory core of Christianity, but where

Yesterday I was angered by the morning news on Radio 4. They were reporting this item about a man who had apparently confessed to masterminding terrorist activities like the twin towers, and also ones that never happened, like killing the Pope or blasting Big Ben. But then, almost as an afterthought or a formality “your

We just had the pleasure of hosting Eddie and Wedgie’s lecture on the Cardboard Box. They presented us with a talk in the style of a box, with a number of amusing practical demonstrations. Eddie rendered a bottle unrecognisable by placing it under a teatowel, a much simpler process than wrapping up the Reichstag.