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In the recent history of radical progressive politics the student unrest of the late '60s holds a very special place. The momentum for...

One of the things I admire about Virginia Woolf's writing is her precision in describing uncertainty. The most obvious example is her ...

Sometime in the mid '60s my father discovered drip-dry shirts. They were one of the many products of the modern world; a world in which ...

It's perhaps unsurprising that in a discipline so firmly anchored to immediate and practical concerns, educational debate finds it dif...

It's not just the fact that we're sailing in the wake of Latour's Re-assembling the Social  - the growing appetite for all thing...

I think I may have coined the term 'immersive reading' in an attempt to draw parallels between the experience of dwelling in the i...

Reflecting on my last post I realise that I'm quite drawn to what you could call 'short form' writing, and that's what blo...

I thought I just might post something on the anniversary of my blog. It's exactly fifteen years ago that I registered this account wit...

I'm recently back from a week in Calgary on a fascinating project which I may write more about later.  The preparatory task was to write...

I'm just putting the finishing touches to a co-authored book on literacy and digital media for Sage with Cathy Burnett . It's been a...

Trying to think differently about literacy, emergence and potentiality (amongst other things) has led to some experimentation with the con...

It seems hard to believe when you're in the full beauty of the English summer that the environment is any sort of danger at all. It...

In a rather lengthy email earlier this week, our publisher announced that The Case of the iPad is now out. What exactly out means is, of co...

Iraqi security forces, and Peshmerga fighters together with Sunni and Shia militia are about to take possession of Mosul, liberating it fr...

As pundits and politicians reflect on surprising gains in Labour support in the recent election, many sense the emergence of a new style o...

Sometimes its the smallest of comments that can stop you in your tracks. Like yesterday - the doctoral students were talking about reading i...

This new volume will be published in the summer and is the result of a collaboration with Alyson Simpson and Maureen Walsh . It's been...

Recent interest in affect has come from a number of different directions. Sedgwick ’s appropriation of Tomkins’ psychological perspective ...

Whether it's about water rights, fishing rights, territorial boundaries or navigation there's no doubting the fact that rivers oft...

Last year in a keynote at the Sheffield CSL conference I used a short vignette from what now seems to be becoming a series of sketches of d...