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Category: Regular Marvels in Theory

8 June 2015 A Wider Horizon / Regular Marvels in Theory

A dialogue of stories

Designing the regular marvel books is always enjoyable. Visual judgements involve a different part of the mind to writing, and

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23 May 2015 Regular Marvels in Theory

Books can take care of themselves

I once bought a six-volume set of Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion. It had been printed in 1717, less than

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25 October 2014 Regular marvels / Regular Marvels in Theory / Uncategorized

An antidote for visual satiety

  In a world saturated with pictures, the work of artists is very vulnerable and very important –vulnerable because it

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19 March 2014 Regular Marvels in Theory

Testing the rules

Human beings exist in language. Words and people change each other constantly. The meaning of words shifts as they slip

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8 February 2014 Regular Marvels in Theory

RMT2 – Citation

Why do writers quote other writers? The reasons are complex, and do not preclude such weaknesses as showing off—no one

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5 January 2014 Regular Marvels in Theory

Richard Sennett

Philosophy Bites is a podcast that has been produced since 2007 by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton. In the spirit

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4 November 2013 Regular Marvels in Theory / Winter fires

Bringing one’s self into the lab

An ethnographer’s perspective on drawing A few weeks after the publication of Winter Fires, I was contacted by the editor

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5 July 2013 Regular Marvels in Theory

RMT1 – Power

Learning research For more than 10 years from 1994, I undertook a series of formal research projects into various aspects

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5 July 2013 Regular Marvels in Theory

Regular Marvels, in Theory (RMT)

One reason for creating Regular Marvels is to look for better ways of writing about people’s experience of art and culture.

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I’m a community artist, writer and researcher, working mostly in Europe. My latest book, 'A Restless Art', describes the history, theory and practice of participatory art.

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