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
