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Attention! (opens the original)
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The word slogan, Ali Smith and Sarah Wood tell us in their 2021 video – Why We Write – comes from the Gaelic sluagh-ghairm, which literally means ‘army cry’ or ‘battle cry’. Apt, for the beginning of an exhibition which takes Simone Weil’s phrase (slogan?) of attention as the rarest and purest form of generosity as its entry point. Slogans are braided throughout this meditative and thoughtful group show, which takes up the three floors of the Alison Richard Building in Cambridge. I was asked to
(re)launch (opens the original)
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I’m late to my own relaunch with this post – blame the oncoming train of the new academic term filling my diary with meetings before I was quite ready, but anyway, I just wanted to write a post to mark the occasion of the re-publication of Radical Attention. A book first published in November 2020 when we were still in the weird hiatus of Covid. The launch was in the late Autumn dark, online, hosted by the generous and attentive Olivia Laing, and it spoke to a feeling of acceleration in my socia
Grace Notes (opens the original)
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On Monday, I stood in a sombre crowd and listened to speeches about the life and death of Professor Jason Arday. As someone who has worked my whole life inside the system, I wanted to register my sorrow. One of the speakers says this is a battle, not between right and left, but between right and wrong, between good and evil. The crowd nod and agree, the sense of this as a deep moral injury is palpable.Yet again, it takes the abject death of a Black man to be the crucible of this battle. Except t
So Metal (opens the original)
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After a long period of work came to an end, after two events back-to-back at Wilderness Festival, I suddenly found myself still on site at 10 pm with little means of getting back to London before the morning, with no tent. In truth, a big part of me had deliberately let things slide – I was in one of those moods – and when Carl Cox came on, skilfully mixing a load of 90s anthems to his trademark deep house, I stopped watching from the sidelines. If I was going to take in what was on offer, I was
Know Your Enemy (opens the original)
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This essay has been on the boil for a while, so bear with. At Exeter this summer, more than five hundred academics - one in seven - received an email that they were ‘at risk’ of redundancy - so that the university could shed the equivalent of a hundred and fifty jobs, 85% of them in the humanities. These are the disciplines that carried Exeter into the top hundred in the world for Humanities and won it its place in the Russell Group. History, English, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Drama, Anthrop
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