What are you curious about? At the beginning of Chapter 2 of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, we read: ‘”Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot to speak good English); …..’. We forget, at our peril, that, whatever his commitment to nonsense and queer adventures, the eminent … More Curiouser and curiouser! Being Alice in search of inverted worlds in lieu of Wonderland

Write about a random act of kindness you’ve done for someone. A hug, a smile, a giving up Flesh finding its kind in random touch Not seen, not even felt perhaps Except in that touching when Flesh answers in the same kind. And ‘we’ instead of ‘I’ flowers Aloft above its lonely fragile stems of … More Almost flesh, not kind … Akin in ‘we’.

How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you? Seeing is an important word in our culture and so it was in Ancient Attica too. In Euripides play, The Phoenician Women, about the collapse of Thebes as it is subject to civil war by Oedipus’ warlike sons, it is associated with people who … More Why is seeing so important anyway? The dominance of the eye. The hegemony of vision. 

Was today typical? There is a distinction in the philosophy of mind between type and token identity. Whereas it was once thought there must be events in the brain the brain that are exactly the same, if expressed in different media, as an event in the mind, like a thought, modern identity theory claims that … More My token day? Why no day need be the same as another.

How would you describe yourself to someone? If I try and see how I might look, I think I possibly look and sound extravagant, outward going, easy-going and fun-loving, sometimes funny and other times failing to be so in a quite spectacular way. Lol. I am always, when the synapses are zinging, perhaps overly so, … More As I see me!

If you could bring back one dinosaur, which one would it be?

If you won two free plane tickets, where would you go? Piaget insisted that the egocentrism of the child before its cognitive and emotional development was a very complex thing. He bowed to Freud in relation to the possible explanations of a child’s emotional development, preferring to look at how mature cognition, by which meant … More ‘Free’ is a very overused word. The real danger of the continuation of magical thinking into adulthood.

What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being? The idea that health is JUST an individual one is a relatively new one culturally and socially, although it’s roots lie in the Robinsonades, as Marx called the genre including Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’, of eighteenth century ‘enlightment’ and free market thinking. The idea has … More The illusion of control