What the Flux? A Perplexing Legacy for...
16th April 2024
Nathaniel Woodward at MoMA. Nathaniel Woodward reflects on his experience visiting The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Archives in New York Researching about something as enigmatic...
Read MoreMichael Jackson, Mark Fisher, and the...
27th November 2022
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...
Read MoreBodybildung (Part I)
13th July 2022
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...
Read MoreOrwell: On Writing Clearly
10th February 2022
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,...
Read MoreThe Horrifying Real at the Mountains of...
23rd December 2021
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...
Read MoreRethinking the Hard Path of Education...
5th July 2021
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...
Read MoreIdentity and its discontents
30th May 2021
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...
Read MoreEvangelion, Schools and Futures
29th March 2021
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...
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