Filling the Hauntologist’s stocking
People often reminisce on the endless summers of youth, or hark back to long cold winters of the past, but there’s little rumination on enduring autumns. Maybe it’s working in … Continue reading
Cultural memory: In theory and terrifying practice
It was my PGR induction on Monday which coincided with freshers week. It felt very peculiar to be a new starter again 19 years on from the first time I … Continue reading
Can I get a rewind?
‘If I could turn back time’ Cher famously sang, ‘if I could find a way…’. And as far as I’m aware, correct me if I’m wrong, she never did succeed … Continue reading
Alternative Histories of Electronic Music 2016
I woke up this morning feeling refreshed after a night in my own bed, without being troubled, as I was for the last three nights, by the 6.30 alarm call … Continue reading
Spirits of Place
A disappointing start to my weekend; an email informing me that I hadn’t been successful in my application for AHRC funding (again). Little did I know when I was claiming … Continue reading
Etc. #1
Snowball sampling is something I have vague memories of from studying A-level sociology. It’s basically a technique of recruiting participants for a study via the existing participants, each new person … Continue reading
The Ministry of Nostalgia
I read today, with some disbelief, that the ‘Oxford Dictionaries’ website’s Word of the Year 2015 is an emoji. Not the word ’emoji’ but an actual pictograph, officially known as … Continue reading
(R)Eject the Tape
On Sunday evening I went to the cinema to see the film adaptation of Alan Bennett’s play The Lady in the Van. Afterwards, discussing the authenticity of the late 70s/early … Continue reading
Afrofuturism
It was only recently that I realised that the term ‘afrofuturism’ only came into use in 1994, coined by Mark Dery in his essay ‘Black to the Future’. In a … Continue reading
Nuclear Transmissions
For me late September and early October have been a period of tying up loose ends before studying properly begins. For the most part this has involved finishing a soundwork … Continue reading
