A shack of fallen beech trunks, roughly sawn into planks. Roofed with turf, it had a window at each point of the compass. Seven in all. The only door faced the sunrise in the morning and the sunset in the evening. It was that kind of shack. He had built …
“It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.”(1) The foolishness of these words might seem obvious, but there is a case to be made that it is indeed possible to predict the future. In his address to the Royal Institution (24/01/1902) entitled The Discovery of the Future, H.G. …
Given my deja vu experience at Robert Maxwell’s talk (CHAT 2012), I thought it would be worthwhile to return to Stalker’s Pripyat to do an archaeological survey. If only as an inspiration for tourism, the game might be seen as an element of dark heritage, albeit as a vicarious experience. …
…it’s just been misremembered The internet is filling up with crap. My personal pet hate is misquotations, or the meme-ing of quotations without citation. Is this because I am a pedantic academic twat, or is it that by this process, crap gets spread around and actually finding genuine information gets …
Travelling Hopefully Towards a New Society?i Preface 2014 On thursday 16th October an exhibition about William Morris, Anarchy and Beauty, will open at the National Portrait Gallery in London. This reminded me of the following piece which I wrote, based on a paper given at the Morris centenary conference in …
Last year I reported on excavating a trench for power cables to supply a new garage in our back garden. I have now finally got round to preparing the site for the garage, and accordingly could not resist digging a test pit on the site to see what information I …
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations …
A Discussion of Agency Due largely to the influence of Actor Network Theory, a lot has been written in recent years about agency. Much of which I find that I disagree with (Graves-Brown 2013a). At one level, the root of these discussions lies in the neglect of material things in …
Me and the DIN plug The DIN plug or connector is another familiar item among my collection of cables, generally in the 5-pin version, although there have been numerous others from 3-9 pins in various configurations. I think my first encounter with these was when, some time in 1971-2, my …
Temporarily moving my home recording studio, I found myself sorting through a mass of tangled cables and leads, some of which I have owned for more than 30 years. This started me thinking again about connectors, of which there are a huge variety, some of which persist and others have …