Kester Brewin

Tag: Dirt

  • Freedom of Speech? My Arse!

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    I know this blog is meant to be a place to throw some dirt around, but perhaps this is too much information: one of the books that is by the crapper in our house is a collection of Alistair Cooke’s Letters from America. Pithy, perfectly lengthed pieces on everything important from 1945 to 2004. And…

  • A Dirt Laureate?

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    “The poet”, Rollo May writes, “is a menace to conformity. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists are the possible destroyers of our nicely ordered systems. For the creative impulse is the speaking of the voice and the expressing of the forms of the preconscious and unconscious; and this is, by…

  • Dirt | Individualism | The Rebuilding of New Orleans

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    //// The clear-up begins. The autopsy. The media attempt to deflate the pompous politicians in their teflon suits, who hope the dirt won’t stick, that they won’t be a casualty. The volunteers still up to their necks in filth, delicately orange-crossing the ex-houses housing the inflated bodies, hoping the dirt won’t stick, trying to enumerate…

  • New Orleans & Baghdad – An Opportunity for Compassion?

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    Horrific scenes from New Orleans on this evening’s news… Described as a city descending into anarchy, with looting, shooting, hunger, desperation. And this displacing the earlier horrors of the stampede in Baghdad as panic about potential suicide bombers spread among the hoards of women and children marching over the Tigris to attend a major festival……

  • Tricksters: Dangerous Speakers

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    Reflecting on my hopes of hearing ‘dangerous speech’ last Sunday morning to counter the terrible things going on in London, I began to wonder who our modern-day Tricksters are. For those who haven’t read the book, Trickster figures are slippery characters that turn up in every mythology; boundary crossers who tend to get involved in…

  • Dirt and Terror

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    A few months ago I was asked by Third Way magazine to write them an article on one of the issues raised in the book. Those who have read the book will realise that one of the things that has interested me – through the thinking we’ve done at Vaux over the past few years…