Born in 1954. Chequered career including Lecturer in English, Social Worker and Lecturer in Social Work. Had breaks related to mental health that also meant I worked in social care. Now retired.
This is a beginning book list. I’ve annotated works that were easy to annotate but have read these so far. The real nitty-gritty will lie in absorbing, processing and reflecting the work of Claire Bishop (2012) and the many minor critiques of her approach in other work in this list but most notably in McKee … More Beginning to create annotated references for a project on May 1968 in Paris.
Some ideas about May 1968 from Abidor, M. (2018) ‘May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France’ London, Pluto Press. This is a rich resource in that it brings together accounts from Paris veterans (already established political workers, new students, anarchists and voices from outside Paris. It also mixes accounts from … More Some ideas about May 1968 from Abidor, M. (2018)
Reading Guy Debord (1967) The Society of the Spectacle (trans Knabb, K.). 2nd ed. (2012) Eastbourne, Soul Bay Press Ltd., Sussex. Debord addresses these issues, although never ‘head-on’. He details signs of negation of the SotS (94) thus: (thesis 115, p.94): New signs of negation are proliferating in the most economically advanced countries. Although these … More Thinking about ‘art’ in May 1968 and the issue of an inclusive art-history (1):
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