What are you most worried about for the future? ‘Wo Es war, soll Ich werden‘ is one of the most famous summaries of the role of psychoanalytic treatment by Sigmund Freud and in the James Strachey Standard Edition in English of the works of Freud is translated as “Where id was, there ego shall be.”, It … More ‘Where It was, I shall be’: occupying the future.

What are your daily habits? I took up blogging in response to a course I took with The Open University in 2015 called Technology-enhanced learning as part of a MA in Open and Distance Learning. Sceptical at first, I persevered with its encouragement to use available technologies, even ones not primarily geared to that end, such as social … More ‘Blogging is a ‘daily habit’ that is justified by the humdrum habitual experience it makes you see anew ?

If you were forced to wear one outfit over and over again, what would it be? This question hurts. The terms used are difficult to get your head round. That you are ‘forced’ suggests coercion, perhaps  backed by possible sanctions for not obeying the rule implied in donning the outfitting of yourself. After aĺ, one … More The contradictions of the freedom that poses as choice. A reflection and a brutal stanza.

How do you waste the most time every day? This gif is, as it is intended to be, funny because it takes a number of negative clichés that get said in moments of stress  and knots them together in a way that, all together, the effect is comic. This gif is, as it is intended … More Wasted time is the time you spend not appreciating having time to live life with varied pace and productivity, including the unproductive moments of rest and recuperation.

How do you practice self-care? The self-care INDUSTRY tries to pretend it is not a money-making business but a tool of love and esteem. There is still money in practicing that self-care is not self-interest or self-indulgence. The questions of ‘self-care’ were thrown into the air philosophically by the attention the philosopher, Michel Foucault, gave … More Is self-care satisfactory if it doesn’t see the ‘self’ as a problem for remedy first of all.

Who is your favorite historical figure? One person’s favourite ‘historical figure’ is most likely to be another person’s partial or total historical misrepresentation of the same figure. Michelangelo (‘in his last decades’) must have been awesome. According to some whose ‘favourite’ he is, we  will not see that in the British Museum’s reconstruction of him … More One person’s favourite ‘historical figure’ is most likely to be another person’s partial or total historical misrepresentation of the same figure. The elder Michelangelo must have been awesome. According to some, whose ‘favourite’ he is, we  will not see that in the British Museum’s reconstruction of him in ‘Michelangelo: The last decades’? We see that exhibition on July 21st at 12.30.