ways of knowing – Regular Marvels

An antidote for visual satiety

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

Words last time: pictures today. Rosie Redzia, the wonderful artist with whom I’m working on ‘A Wider Horizon’, has been

Words captivated me first: then stories. As a small child, I didn’t always follow the story or care if I

In 1841, a young father and musician was kidnapped in Washington DC, shipped in chains to New Orleans and sold

Originally posted on François Matarasso:
Music: What is it good for? In the 1970s, at a time when we were less…

From My Life is the most ambitious Regular Marvel so far, and it is already testing some aspects of the

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

Classical music is as important as photography in Terence Davies’ elegiac film about the people and city of Liverpool in

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

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