Category: Arts
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Dubh – Uneasy Listening
Sorry it’s been quiet around here recently. Had my head down writing for various things – poems, books, copy for Greenbelt, discussions about Vaux Mk II – and also spent a few fully analogue days in the hills helping lead a Duke of Edinburgh Award trip. All good. One thing I’ve been meaning to do…
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In the Dining Room of The School of Life
Having sniffed around all the interesting things they’ve been doing since they started 8 months or so ago, I finally went to an event by The School of Life. And very wonderful it was too. Taking over the top floor of the excellent Marylebone restaurant The Providores, we arrived and were sat deliberately with people…
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Marilynne Robinson | Dawkins | ‘An Intellectually and Culturally Informed Christianity’
A rare interview in today’s Guardian with the author of Gilead, Housekeeping and now Home, includes this lovely quote regarding Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens: “[Dawkins] acts as if the physical world that is manifest to us describes reality exhaustively. I’m not impressed with the quality of [his] writing, or of Christopher Hitchens’ writing. If…
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Out of My Head | Synecdoche, New York
I went to see Charlie Kaufman’s latest piece last night – Synecdoche, New York. I highly recommend it. For those familiar with his work, Kaufman continues to explore the problems of consciousness, and, in particular, the problem of mediating what is in our heads to those around us. He has mined the seam of the…