I Am Worth It
World Suicide Prevention Day was on 10 September 2016. People shared their stories of advice and hope, warnings and cautions. Here is...
An Inspiration for Murder? The Blakean Images in Popular Culture
William Blake is one of the “canonized” poets whose influence pervades the popular culture of our time. Agatha Christie opens her mystery...
In Defense of Preaching to the Choir?
Queuing for my last show of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I ran into a friend from my local Amnesty group. The show we were...
Donald Trump: Psychopath?
To say that the run-up to the 2016 United States presidential election has raised some serious questions would be a gross understatement....
Autobiography’s White Lies
“Here’s the deal—all the books and all the movies and documentaries and all that stuff that are made about these people that we are...
Did You Say Phenomenology and Ontology?
This post is going to be a quick, ambitious and imperfect attempt at reconsidering, together with Heidegger and a soft toy called...
Shit-Faced Shakespeare: How Edinburgh Fringe Refreshed a Classic
In the depths of a giant plastic purple cow on a rainy August night in Edinburgh, a few hundred people were reminded what Shakespearean...
Does soundbite culture harm research, or help it?
It is widely agreed that we live in a ‘soundbite culture’, one which prioritises short, punchy forms of communication. From the TED-Talk...
99 Problems, Old Sport: The Meeting of Two Jays
[Still from the official trailer for the Great Gatsby] In 2013, when Baz Luhrmann released his adaptation of The Great Gatsby, more than...
Pics or It Didn't Happen: On the Objectivity of Photographs
How do we interpret the information we take from a photograph? How have we interpreted photography differently throughout its history?...
