Monday, 7 Dec 2015, 10:09Visible to anyone in the world Phoenix: A film ‘about’ theory of mind’ Petzold’s (2015) film Phoenix retells a story, originally in a French novel and a British film from the 1960s, Return from the Ashes, starring Herbert Lom by cutting the story down to the bones. I suggest those bones are a rich … More Phoenix: A film ‘about’ theory of mind’
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 Week 19. As I write this, I begin to recall that my language here, that of ‘debt’, is itself not unrelated to the … More Reblog from 2015: The Ownership of Learning: issues related to conceptualising ‘learning’ as a product
Thursday, 17 Mar 2016, 16:39Visible to anyone in the world I’m responding to my (imagined) community Care and Support Training and Education Company – QUiPS. (MY INVENTION) RECOMMENDATIONS TO BOARD. Funding from Coketown University matching a one-off lottery grant obtained by Coketown Disability Alliance and Mental Health Survivors (Coketown) is for the academic year 2016 … More An Exercise for OU Master of Open & Distance EDucation Course. Week & Activity 4 Part A: Recommendations for Implementation Criteria
Reviewing John Foot ‘The man who closed asylums’[1] This is an urgent book that is about much more than anti-psychiatry or movements allied with it. It is a book about an era of situated political change: situated geographically, historically and socio-culturally and animated by an awareness of the proximity of massive changes, in apparently discrete … More Reblog: Reviewing John Foot ‘The man who closed asylums’[1]
Saturday, 7 Jul 2018, 07:46Visible to anyone in the world- Edited by Steve Bamlett, Saturday, 7 Jul 2018, 07:56 Rough translation: reviewing Leila Aboulela (2018) Elsewhere Home London, Telegram In ‘Pages of Fruit’, the last story in this collection, Aboulela’s narrator goes to the Edinburgh International Book Festival to meet an author of whom she is an avid … More Reblogged: Rough translation: reviewing Leila Aboulela (2018) ‘Elsewhere Home’
Reblogged: Simon Armitage (2017) ‘The Unaccompanied’ VERY PERSONAL REVIEW Thursday, 2 Mar 2017, 15:39Visible to anyone in the world- Edited by Steve Bamlett, Thursday, 2 Mar 2017, 15:40 Simon Armitage (2017) The Unaccompanied London, Faber & Faber What’s in a name? Armitage could have called this volume ‘Solitude’ and in a stroke joined the army of poets and … More Reblogged: Simon Armitage (2017) ‘The Unaccompanied’ VERY PERSONAL REVIEW
Hearing Voices: Durham 5th November 2016 – 26th February 2017 Thursday, 10 Nov 2016, 08:53Visible to anyone in the world- Edited by Steve Bamlett, Thursday, 10 Nov 2016, 16:32 Hearing Voices: suffering, inspiration, the everyday. A Free and wonderful exhibition at Palace Green Library in the City of Durham 5th November 2016 – 26th February 2017 For information … More Reblogged: Hearing Voices: Durham 5th November 2016 – 26th February 2017
For my note on the film see: https://stevebamlett.home.blog/2019/11/07/ken-loachs-sorry-we-missed-you-a-difficult-watch-in-cinemas-now/ Was social justice ever easy?: Ken Loach and Paul Laverty at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society 4th December 2019 12.30 – 2 p.m. My take on ‘Sorry We Missed You‘ Today was special. The Lit and Phil was the voce of radicalism and science in Newcastle … More Was social justice ever easy?: Ken Loach and Paul Laverty at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society 4th December 2019 12.30 – 2 p.m.
David Constantine (2019) The Dressing-Up Box The Comma Press. The reader views the page; and the composite shape, the juxtapositions, the relations between parts and the whole, are static. The medium insists on fixity. But the spirit of the whole endeavour is quite he opposite: it is the principle of eternal instability, od ‘everything moves … More Read David Constantine (2019) ‘The Dressing-Up Box’ The Comma Press.
Celia Paul (2019) Self-Portrait London, Jonathan Cape. There is a fascinating story in David Constantine’s latest short-story collection that revolves around, as does other of his fiction, about what it actually means ‘to read’ a book that does not exactly follow the conventions that allow us to recognise that we are, what we normatively call, … More Reflecting upon Celia Paul (2019) ‘Self-Portrait’ London, Jonathan Cape.
The Norman Cornish Sketch & Drawing Exhibition at Palace Green Library visited 22nd November 2019. A spontaneous sketch from a Norman Cornish sketchbook. Available from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50365848 A reflection following first visit. See also Bowes retrospective piece (link opens new window): There are 3 Cornish centenary exhibitions I’ve visited thus far this year (the others at … More The Norman Cornish Sketch & Drawing Exhibition at Palace Green Library visited 22nd November 2019.
Notes on ‘Talks at the Tower’, Bishop Auckland. An Introduction to Poussin’s The Triumph of Pan, Dr. Francesca Whitlum-Cooper from The National Gallery 21st November 2019. A reflection, consulting: Bull, M. (1995) ‘Poussin’s Bacchanals for Cardinal Richelieu’, The Burlington Magazine (137: 1102 (Jan. 1995)) , 5-11 . Available at: Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/886396 (Accessed: 21-11-2019 15:50 … More An Introduction to Poussin’s ‘The Triumph of Pan’, Dr. Francesca Whitlum-Cooper from The National Gallery 21st November 2019.Notes on ‘Talks at the Tower’, Bishop Auckland.
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