Busy busy busy at the moment. Probably won’t be any long posts here for a while, but I’ll try and use it as a place to collate all the other stuff I’m doing. Namely…
New Research Trajectories
An exciting group of postrgraduate researchers in the East Midlands who’re thinking about new ways of disseminating our research/other areas of interest to the public in Nottingham on Wed 15th December. There’s a website right here. I’m currently thinking about some kind of improv happening or doing audio guides to an imagined, utopian Nottingham (the Victoria Centre as an anarchist art space, anyone?)- perhaps with the option for people to record their own utopian imaginings. This day will be (sort of) part of Sideshow- the fringe festival accompanying the British Art Show 7 which is coming to Nottingham Contemporary shortly. Also part of Sideshow is…
Bookmobile
…for which I will be a ‘writer in residence’. This means I’ll spend one day a week in the bookmobile, writing! I plan to do some kind of ‘participatory fiction’ in which visitors to the bookmobile can choose how they’d like to be represented in a story which I’ll then try and write throughout my residency. This is likely to be set in a utopian Nottingham too! Hurrah!! There’ll be a blog for this soon, too. For now you can find out more here.
Nottingham Critical Pedagogies Group
Getting busy with the start of the new term! See our blog for the latest. I’m particularly excited about the Spaces of Alterity Conference we’re involved with, not least because China Mielville is speaking.
Deserter’s Songs
My new column over at Ceasefire Magazine. It’s about music- and that’s pretty much my remit. But I try to relate songs/bands/concepts to political and cultural concerns. I’m pleased with the two columns I’ve written so far (a meditation on Talking Heads’ Heaven and utopia and a defence of nostalgia through the work of July Skies and epic45).
My PhD
Ah, yes. I’m going to go over the chapters I’ve written and may post them here at some point. And then get on with some new stuff! Need to think through the relationship between what I call ‘nomadic utopia’ and utopia as it’s traditionally thought.
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Tags: Bookmobile, critical pedagogy, New Research Trajectories, Sideshow
