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When my mother died, I couldn't work out what to do with the desk she had. It was rather like the one here, and it had been part of the ...

Having a personal library could well become a thing of the past - and it's certainly a luxury, a rarefied form of consumerism and someth...

In a democracy of things every object exists in relation to others. What's more all classes of objects have equal status although some c...

Good ideas, the ones that provide solutions to problems you didn't think you had, are things to celebrate before they become taken for...

Cathy and I did a seminar at Lancaste r the other week based, at least in part, on the virtual worlds work we've been involved in. The...

Joining the interdisciplinary group on space and place last Friday felt like taking time out. It was really fascinating to learn about the...

Do we all have undeveloped areas of interest? I suspect we do, and sometimes I think it's the case that the interest is latent - we mi...

It's still a thrill to get your hands on the book you wrote or edited. Last week we (that's me, Julia Gillen, Jackie Marsh & ...

I've been re-reading Donna Haraway's 'Manifesto for Cyborgs' as background for a chapter I'm writing. I was struck by wh...

Whatever our opinion about the motivation of rioters, it needs to be acknowledged that mass unrest is a kind of spectacle and a politica...

Well, maybe not. But this is me in full swing with my new midi controller. What you can't see is the way I'm hooked into Garageband,...

I've just finished reading de Waal's book (see interests) and I must admit that I'm still unconvinced that it deserves so much ...

Defacing books still fills some people with horror. It's amazing how often people get quite hysterical about marking one's place by ...

Classrooms, like many institutional settings, are full of stuff. Visit an empty classroom and there is the furniture, the instr...

Last night I bought 'You are not a Gadget'. It was one of the simplest bits of shopping I've ever done. First of all I was just ...

For a long time I've been thinking (and sometimes arguing with Richard) about meaning and material objects. In the highly entertaining b...

Philip Dodd's radio debate on the future of the book in the era of e-readers holds no surprises. But it's still entertaining to lis...

Gus Andrews was very entertaining at NMC. She spoke about the making of The Media Show with some examples (not this example I don't thin...

On Friday I found myself syphoning colleagues from 3 different trains into 2 different minibuses in order to make a decent start for Seminar...

Tina Peterson’s piece The Zapper and the Zapped , which is a study of the role of the microwave oven in everyday life really is a thought-pr...