The Unknown Citizen

In the time before a well developed market research industry, neuroscience, Big Data etc there were, perhaps, unknown and unknowable citizens: He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to […]

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The 'burbs

The suburbs. Victims of abuse and scorn and the net curtain twitching middle classes. A new exhibition at the London Transport Museum explores the suburbs and Joe Moran, that  ethnographer of the […]

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Rebeginment

We recently ran a small workshop, or gathering, to discuss 're-inventing retirement'. One of the attendees mentioned a poem that Brendan Kennelly  had written on the subject of retirement as a […]

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Christmas Inside

Death Row, Luzeera Jail What do they spell, the fairy lights draping the yard outside the cells? A daily Christmas? Unwrapping the surprises before dawn? Another day isn't, for everyone, […]

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