• Foucault: Panopticism

    Then next session, on Foucault’s panopticism theories, will take place on Thursday 5th March, 12.30-1.30pm, Ormkirk LRC; lunch provided. All welcome. The text can be downloaded from the Library catalogue by doing a module code search for REA101. You will need your library card number and PIN to access it. It will should print off in one go (35…

  • Ruth Nestvold – this week’s reading

    Thursday 12 February (please note that this session will be 2.30-3.30pm, with refreshments).  “Looking Through Lace” by Ruth Nestvold. The whole text is available on the author’s website http://www.ruthnestvold.com/Lookingthroughlace.htm  It’s also available in hard copy in:The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, the Future & Chocolate Chip Cookies, Edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy,…

  • Academic Reading Group: Camilo Jose Vergara

    As long as we have not destroyed everything, there will remain ruins. –    Student slogan from May ‘68 Last week, as part of this semester’s ‘make it new’ theme, I introduced the Reading Group to the work of photographer Camilo Jose Vergara, and in particular, his website Invincible Cities: http://invinciblecities.camden.rutgers.edu/intro.htm This website is unlike anything…