Writing is reciprocal but this is not
I had an epiphany recently: this *gestures* is all noise. I’ve been confusing it for influence, ideas, and insight, but I am getting nothing from it, and neither are you.
The Kids Think Differently
How can you educate when your own education was a lifetime ago? I recently had the obligation of transcribing for a young student during an exam. Like any educator I find acting as a scribe difficult: your role in this…
Fandom is the reason I can’t give up the internet
I can’t be the only one stuck in this loop… Oh god, do I want off the internet. The list of things I need a phone to do is so small that I am seriously considering going back to a…
Library Fashion
Or, If I’m Staring At You It’s Because I Want To Be Friends Did anybody tell you, when you were young, that ‘it’s not a fashion parade’? I see you. I see you and your meticulous eye for detail, your…
“What Are My Words Worth”: the role of academia’s ivory tower in cultural transmission
my talk given at the Creative Industries Festival 2026 “What is left, what is remembered and what is still fit for use in the heritage of classical bourgeois culture?” It is with these words that Eric Hobsbawm opens his 2012…
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