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Just a brief preface in response to a question I was asked recently. Why am I so interested in the ideas of this atheist? Is it just because he returns to Christianity and sees some value in it to be plundered, like when new technology allows us to reopen a spent mine-shaft? Partly; I actually

Today was more difficult; Hegel, with whom I am not familiar. It was very stimulating. I was particularly interested in  the idea that you can’t say an idea got distorted in the execution. The idea is precisely how good it turns out to be in execution; in its distorted state. So if there is something

Kerry, David and myself enrolled on the Zizek masterclass at Birkbeck these next four days, a slightly nervous experience for myself, not because of anyone present; just the experience of being in a higher education institution again. It was a good lecture; as expected oblique. It was on the emancipatory core of Christianity, but where

Yesterday I was angered by the morning news on Radio 4. They were reporting this item about a man who had apparently confessed to masterminding terrorist activities like the twin towers, and also ones that never happened, like killing the Pope or blasting Big Ben. But then, almost as an afterthought or a formality “your

We just had the pleasure of hosting Eddie and Wedgie’s lecture on the Cardboard Box. They presented us with a talk in the style of a box, with a number of amusing practical demonstrations. Eddie rendered a bottle unrecognisable by placing it under a teatowel, a much simpler process than wrapping up the Reichstag.  

You know what it is like, you try and plan ahead and you give yourself a generous amount of extra time in case things don’t work out… anyway our machinery conundrums are sufficiently resolved, but we will not be able to release the book “a plan and the means to complete” in March as we

Today was world book day; I found this out by being in the Barbican Library engaging in a bit of fine-avoidance. The man serving me at the desk was dressed in a red sequin dress, with a black bob and a feather boa. “Nice dress” I said. “Thank you.” Book scanned. “It’s world book day

First thumb: We have spent months monkeying about with UV lamps trying to develop silkscreens to not much joy. I could do A3 well with a face-tanner {why tan the face alone? I’ve been studying the tanned amongst us to see if it is common to have a brown face and blue arms. ‘I can’t come

Today would have been Kurt Cobain’s 40th. I wondered if there would be much in the news. Grunge was the first scene I was into, I was 12! So I felt the urge to mark it somehow.

I’m doing a lecture as part of Janice Harding’s Universettee lecture series on 16th April 2007. It is an introduction to the ideas of Slavoj Zizek. Click on the picture of Zizek below for details on how to join us:   The thing that drew me to reading his books initially was wanting to understand his enthusiastic