writing and translation
Rereading Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) is a pleasure, maybe because it feels so comfortable. The road between Minneapolis and Bozeman means something to me, intersects with my family....
Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512, depicts creativity as a gap between two distinct, independently coherent human bodies. A complex and controversial visualisation of the account of Creation given in the Biblical Book of Genesis,...
Fine turn of phrase! It’s a device that people of a given time and place recognise as a metaphor for knowledge. The “engine” bit implies that the image drives the acquisition of knowledge. In...
I asked the students on the MA Illustration: Authorial Practice course to read the essay. The discussion ranged far and wide, as usual, and I fear we didn’t get to what I would call...
Flusser’s “The Gesture of Writing,” along with my notes about it, has just been published in New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Taylor and Francis) vol 9...
Copyright 2012! This new volume from Berg Publishers, edited by Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell, will be launched very shortly…I’m very pleased to be among the contributors, with an essay on Flusser’s understanding of...