Reading Jenni Fagan’s Truth : The Truth is out (and in) there. @Jenni_Fagan #Truth

@Jenni_Fagan #Truth Reading Jenni Fagan’s Truth : The Truth is out (and in) there Truth is a problem in poetry. Note Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella Elizabethan sonnet sequence which starts: Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show The homophone ‘fain’ and ‘feign’ here drives together the two kinds of … More Reading Jenni Fagan’s Truth : The Truth is out (and in) there. @Jenni_Fagan #Truth

Pain & Glory: Seeing Almodóvar’s Hamlet: A reflexive Masterpiece

Pain & Glory: Seeing Almodóvar’s Hamlet: A reflexive Masterpiece See: https://www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/article/45705/1/pedro-almodovar-interview-the-pain-and-the-glory-penelope-cruz-drugs Throughout this film, we see posters of Hamlet and the analogy of the play within a play (and the equally important film within a film) becomes a highly interactive model of the reflexive nature of this film. It reflects the auteur career of Almodóvar … More Pain & Glory: Seeing Almodóvar’s Hamlet: A reflexive Masterpiece

MIMA on Berger: Shaping contemporary local higher education without the constraints of the faculty.

http://www.visitmima.com/whats-on/single/runs-like-a-rumor-and-a-legend-john-bergers-miners-30-years-on/ Shaping contemporary local higher education without the constraints of the faculty. Thank you to MIMA, Dr Martyn Huson & Emily Hesse for leading up a wonderful event at MIMA yesterday. Collect together distinguished academics who appear willingly, not only as academics but also as people, to talk about their experience. Then elaborate and structure … More MIMA on Berger: Shaping contemporary local higher education without the constraints of the faculty.

“Much have I travell’d in these woods of old”: On Reading Seán Hewitt’s ‘Lantern’ At Night

Much have I travell’d in these woods of old: On Reading Seán Hewitt’s ‘Lantern’ At Night I wanted to thank Andrew Macmillan, already a favourite poet for introducing me to these poems in his luscious tweets (never a bird sung so well) and Seán for his tweeted good wishes for the reading.  These were like … More “Much have I travell’d in these woods of old”: On Reading Seán Hewitt’s ‘Lantern’ At Night

In love and in pain: Cutting into the intersectional being: ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ Ocean Vuong (Jonathan Cape).

In love and in pain: Cutting into the intersectional being: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong (Jonathan Cape). Let’s start with the least of the deep artistic virtues of this book, in which searing pain, achieved beauty and the potential of degradation and shame vie for position and then shimmer into the beauteous fragments … More In love and in pain: Cutting into the intersectional being: ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ Ocean Vuong (Jonathan Cape).

Queer(y)ing Keith Vaughan’s Groups

Steve Bamlett A 10,000 word piece – A proposal How and why does the visual portrayal of figurative groups in landscapes in the post-1939 art of Keith Vaughan relate to changing representations of male ‘homosexuality’ in Britain? This research aims to read critically the ways in which depictions of male-to-male association in Vaughan’s work reflects … More Queer(y)ing Keith Vaughan’s Groups

Towards an aim in Queer(y)ing Keith Vaughan

The aim of this research is to investigate and attempt to read critically the ways in which depictions of male-to-male association in Vaughan’s work reflects on representations in contemporary discourses of male ‘homosexuality’ and its purported aetiology in the period after the war. Discourse is used here in a Foucauldian sense to include not only … More Towards an aim in Queer(y)ing Keith Vaughan

A note on the limitation to (although not of) the male body in Queer(y)ing Keith Vaughan

Relating this to the issue of the ‘homosexual’ will not only rely on the immediate context of historical discourse but also on André Gide’s literary models. The enemy is a Zola-like naturalism. The latter’s use of a pre-natured world which art represents is set against fictive and imagined worlds, such as those of Gide, where … More A note on the limitation to (although not of) the male body in Queer(y)ing Keith Vaughan

Annotated booklist for 10000 word proposal on Queer(y)ing Keith Vaughan (1912-1977).

A dissertation proposal How and why does the visual portrayal of figurative groups in landscapes in the post-1939 art of Keith Vaughan relate to changing representations of male ‘homosexuality’ in Britain?  [Agnew’s (1990) Keith Vaughan: 1912-1977 Catalogue London, Agnew’s. Austin/Desmond Fine Art (ud.a) Keith Vaughan: Catalogue of Paintings, Gouaches, Watercolours and Drawings 1936-1976 Sunninghill, Berks., … More Annotated booklist for 10000 word proposal on Queer(y)ing Keith Vaughan (1912-1977).

Reviewing Paul Broks: the labyrinth in the Neuropsycholgist’s Odyssey

Reviewing Paul Broks: the labyrinth in the Neuropsycholgist’s Odyssey Tuesday, 11 Sep 2018, 17:09Visible to anyone in the worldEdited by Steve Bamlett, Tuesday, 11 Sep 2018, 17:18 Labyrinths V: Farewell via Broks, Paul (2018) The Darker the Night, the Brighter the stars: A Neuropsychologist’s Odyssey. London, Allen Lane (Penguin) Let’s start near the end of this … More Reviewing Paul Broks: the labyrinth in the Neuropsycholgist’s Odyssey

People in Photos

MoMA Photography Course: People in Photos Saturday, 9 Jun 2018, 19:31Visible to anyone in the world 4.10 Discussion Questions What can a photograph of a person tell us about that individual? It can in the first instance tell us about their physical appearance although I don’t think there this is a ‘value-neutral’ phenomenon, because aspects … More People in Photos

The Ownership of Learning: issues related to conceptualising ‘learning’ as a product

Saturday, 27 Jun 2015, 16:37Visible to anyone in the world Edited by Steve Bamlett, Tuesday, 11 Aug 2015, 09:20 The Ownership of Learning: issues related to conceptualising ‘learning’ as a product This contribution owes something to a distinction drawn in ******s contribution to the Ownership thread in ***’s Tutor Group Forum. As I write this, … More The Ownership of Learning: issues related to conceptualising ‘learning’ as a product