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Category: OTHER than Human

  • Radical Tradition: Frank Wedekind (1864 – 1918)

    Radical Tradition: Frank Wedekind (1864 – 1918)

    ‘They stood perplexed in top hats As if around the carcass of a vulture. Bewildered crows. And though they (sweating tears) tried hard, They couldn’t bury this juggler.’ (From the diary of Bertolt Brecht after Wedekind’s funeral at Waldfriedhof cemetry in Munich): an echo of Oswald von Wolkenstein

  • Soldier boy, soldier blue

    Soldier boy, soldier blue which war were you fighting? Ah huh, the Freudian father wars I think it must have been back there in 1960s Berlin. Play therapy you might call it. Or ‘it does no harm,’ as the family visitor responded. It does no harm. But we thought the war was over even though…

  • Hypotonic Solutions

    Hypotonic Solutions

    I first saw the two photographic images of President Lincoln in a book about the Americal Civil War which I was given when I was about 12 years old, and the one speaks to the other. I collected toy soldiers as a boy. Fieldmarshall Rommell was my favourite. He was taller and unlike any of…

Categories (2024) are:

  • ATELIER Work – about-creative-work (in all mediums: text-drawing-sounds-image etc)
  • CLIMATE Action – indications-and-contra-indications
  • DAWDLING – walking-pausing-to-wonder-wandering
  • IN Conversation – companionship-and-connections
  • LA Communita –participatory-collaborative-artivism
  • OTHER than Human – animate-and-inanimate-terrestrial-kin
  • PARANOID Readings – violence-and-fundamental-perversions
  • POLITICAL Readings – mobilisations-affect-polarisations
  • REPARATIVE Readings – inspiring-healing-restorative
  • SHADOW Readings – speculative-and-not-yet-visible-thinking
  • STYLE Readings – scales-and-familiarities
  • TONITE at the Coliseum – live-experiences-performance
  • YOGI (‘Not This-Not That’) – meditation-bhakti-consciousness


Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.

The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.