Tag: Shock Treatment
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Reaching down for the stars
I watched in some wonderment to the results of the Labour Party leader election results last Saturday. Could this be the sign of an emerging and long awaited sea change in the political life of this country? How can we continue with a professional class of politicians who are merely advertising industry stand-ins or cunning…
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Love: Mine – long as Agnes steal!
‘Writing I believe is a sort of co-production’. In the continuing ficto-documentary spirit of this dialogic project of ours, I now also read and repeat : ‘If it is not fair, it is not Christian either’ (Alan Bennet LRB Vol 36 No 12 19th June 2014). To begin with: we are all are equal in…
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Cutting Back Hard
They say it is for your own good. The cut backs (“The Cuts”). Is it possible to cut too far? Cut far beyond last year’s growing point. Back to the main stems. General wisdom says, the most the pruning saw cuts should be to above the first major stem divide. Hoping for new sprouts the…
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.