This post can be downloaded as a PDF here. *** It is difficult not to be impressed by the recently-released ChatGPT, AI software capable of producing a vast array of documents: essays, stories, itineraries, code, emails… you…
This post is available to download as a PDF here. *** The ‘body politic’ is an ancient metaphor by which nations, societies, and public institutions are envisioned through a performative body which fuels ‘ableism’. Whereas phenomenology examines the…
Paperback: £19.99, pp256 ISBN 9780367195410 By Kyrill Potapov University College London, UCL Interaction Centre This review is also available to download as a PDF here Vygotsky the Teacher (Barrs, 2021) is far more than the guide “for teachers…
This post can be downloaded as a PDF here [T]here are many gendered bodies in the world and ‘male’ and ‘female’ do not even begin the hard work of classifying them. (Halberstam, 2018, p. 154) So…
This review is available to download as a PDF here. *** Book Review: David J. Chalmers, Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (London: Penguin 2022) Hardback: £25, 544pp., ISBN-10 0241320712 Ebook: £15.99, 529pp., ISBN 0241320712 ***…
This post is – aptly, given its concerns – available as an audiofile here, and to download as a PDF here. *** Readers of my posts will know that I have an attachment to the pedagogy of audio.i…
This review is available to download as a PDF here. *** Book Review: Tim Ingold (ed.), Knowing from the Inside: Cross-Disciplinary Experiments with Matters of Pedagogy (Bloomsbury Alternative|Education, 2022) 268 pp, ISBN: 978-1-350-21714-0 RRP £81.00 (hardback), £64.80 (e-book)…
This post is available to download as a PDF here. *** The British government doesn’t want us talking about race. More precisely: it doesn’t want us talking about structural and systemic racism as sociopolitical realities that intersect with…
This post is available to download as a PDF here, and is available as an audiofile below: *** Most of us inhabit the world of routines, daily activities filling pockets of time in surprisingly similar ways.… These events…
This post can be downloaded as a PDF here. *** Mindfulness has become something of a boom industry over the last few decades thanks largely to the work of Kabat-Zinn (1990) who developed a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme…
This post is available as a PDF here. *** Healthy body, healthy mind isn’t a modern but an ancient axiom. In Plato, for canonical example, bodily discipline is a crucial strand of moral education; and though Plato denigrates…
This post is available to download as a PDF here, and as an audiofile below: Disneyland Paris celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Opened as ‘EuroDisney’ in 1992, the park is the first for Disney in Europe. It forms…