Past Works 2000-2009
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Can There Be Multiple Versions Of Me?
BBC Radio 3
March 2018
You can get stuck at any time in life...some people get stuck at parenthood, they take on the identity of mother or father so strongly that when their children leave home they can't really get over that and then get to the next stage of their life where another aspect of their life comes more to the fore.
- Julian Baggini
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Martha Rosler
E-Flux November 2016
Dear," is "I hope this message finds you well," an intrusion into the personal that is both empty and confusing, and no more meaningful than an air kiss.
- Martha Rosler
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Wells Tower
The New Yorker
November 2008
David Sedaris Reads Wells Tower
New Yorker
Fiction Podcast
January 2018
Your hatred of your stepfather is all-consuming and unceasing, but this is only because your world is still small, and your stepfather assumes an outsized significance in the story of your life.
- Wells Tower
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Brian Eno
Ambient 1/Music For Airports
1978, Polydor Records
(48 mins 32 secs)
For some reason I always take off my shoes and belt and empty my pockets before listening to this.
- "zebra3stripes" YouTube Comment, 2017
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Kristen Roupenian
The New Yorker
December 2017
“My parents are asking about u,” Margot texted, and Robert sent her back a smiley-face emoji whose eyes were hearts. When Margot returned to campus, she was eager to see Robert again, but he turned out to be surprisingly hard to pin down. “Sorry, busy week at work,” he replied. “I promise I will c u soon.” Margot didn’t like this; it felt as if the dynamic had shifted out of her favor, and when eventually he did ask her to go to a movie she agreed right away.
- Kristen Roupenian
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Ali Smith
The Financial Times
December 2017
My mother sighed again. Her sighing made my chest hurt a bit. When I was a much younger person than I am now I used to think that it was possible to do something about the sadnesses in people’s lives. Now that I’m not so young anymore I’m not so sure it is. I look at my mother sometimes when she comes to stay and I think, well, sadness is just sadness. It is what it is. You have to just let sadness be.
- Ali Smith
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BBC Radio 3
November 2017
Swearing at a mate and trusting them to be your mate after is one of the biggest forms of trust out there.
- Dr. Emma Byrne
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Jan Verwoert
Exhaustion and Exuberance: Ways to Defy the Pressure to Perform
SHEFFIELD08, Yes, No & Other Options 2008
We live and work in economies based on the concept of "just-in-time" production -and "just in time" usually means things have to be ready in no time at all.
- Jan Verwoert
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BBC Radio 3
January 2018
Philosophers of geography and anthropology have introduced a distinction between mere space, which you can think of as GPS coordinates…in contrast with “place”, which is a GPS coordinate that has been deeply invested with meaning by humans; places that we really care about...the majority view is that train stations, bus depots, airports are not places, and in fact, there is something really bland and anonymous about them...
- Emily Thomas
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BBC Radio 3
February 2018
...After all, It’s easier to imagine the factory worker, or coal miner, [or domestic worker] as an icon, than the Deliveroo driver or the office cleaner.
- Philip Dodd
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Series of short documentaries about Stoke-On-Trent:
The Guardian
January 2018
I felt like a goldfish in a bowl and a bit patronised to be honest...In order to understand Stoke you have to get into it.
- Danny Flynn