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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).

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

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

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

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 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

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

Psychology: Creative Resources Wednesday, 28 Oct 2015, 15:38Visible to anyone in the worldEdited by Steve Bamlett, Wednesday, 28 Oct 2015, 15:43 As part of his introduction to me as his tutor, one of my group, Loukianos, sent me a link to a recently finished film directed by him about life in Crete. He has given me … More A piece of feedback to a fondly remembered learner: he gave permission.

Interior installation and Queer Interiors: Elmgreen & Dragset Exercise 3.2 A844 Thursday, 24 Jan 2019, 14:49Visible to anyone in the world- Edited by Steve Bamlett, Sunday, 3 Feb 2019, 17:02– Edited by Steve Bamlett, Thursday, 24 Jan 2019, 14:54– Edited by Steve Bamlett, Thursday, 24 Jan 2019, 14:50 Interior installation and Queer Interiors: Exercise 3.2 A844: Elmgreen & Dragset  … More How LGBTQI+ issues get marginalised (unintentionally) in teaching