(Above is an audio recording of the blog post) Introduction True Detective is a drama series that first aired on HBO in 2014. This article will focus on the first season, which starred Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey as joint leads.…
Nathaniel Woodward reflects on his experience visiting The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Archives in New York Researching about something as enigmatic as the art-network Fluxus has been frustrating, but largely rewarding; I have been just as puzzled by…
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 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 is available as an audiofile below: **** George Orwell (1946) once famously wrote that good prose should be like a window-pane, transparent to the reader and reflecting meaning…
This post is available to read offline as a PDF here, and as an audiofile below. **** Last time, I proposed that sending students into the mountains as a metaphor for their educational journey might yield a Lovecraftian…
This post is available as a PDF here, and an audio recording below: Nan Shepherd, best known for her novel The Living Mountain, was a Scottish novelist and poet who wrote about her personal experience of walking…
This post is available as a PDF here, and as an audio recording below: *** You wouldn’t expect a blog on the PESGB website to contain a poem but why not, if that’s a way of…
This blog post is available as a PDF here, and as an audiotrack below: **** The 1995 Japanese anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion (NGE) takes place in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo where humanity has been pushed to near extinction. Before…