Orford Ness - A 100 Word Dérive
What can be said about Orford Ness in only 100 words? A place that was full of mystery, confusion and secrets. A place that felt like a...
Open City by Teju Cole - Literature Review
Teju Cole – born Obayemi Babajide Adetokunbo Onafuwa - is a Nigerian-American writer. Originally born in Michigan, United States, he and...
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Literature Review: Pinpoint by Greg Milner
Greg Milner is an American author who has an extensive background in copywriting and editing. Much of his recent focus has been on...
Literature Review: Boom Cities by Otto Saumarez Smith
Boom Cities is by architectural and urban historian Professor Otto Saumarez Smith. An assistant professor at Warwick University, Saumarez...
AV Geeks
“A trained peregrine stands to attention on the ARI8228 passive warning radar of a Blackburn Buccaneer. Poised on this powerful low-level...
Jonathan Meades - The Joy of Essex (Television Special) - Review
“I come not from heaven, but from Essex”. Jonathan Meades fronts this hour-long television programme for BBC Four, available on YouTube....
Bicester Village - Part Two
You can view Part One of Bicester Village (and an introduction to the background of this creative piece) here. As I’m walking along the...
Bicester Village - Part One
When I first moved to Bicester last year, I was tasked by my PhD supervisor - Professor Will Self - to write a couple of creative pieces...
Sheep Street - Part Two
Part Two of my creative piece about Bicester's Sheep Street. See Part One here - with more information about the creation of these...
Sheep Street - Part One
When I first moved to Bicester last year, I was tasked by my PhD supervisor - Professor Will Self - to write a couple of creative pieces...
Literature Review: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is a crucial author to explore the works of when looking at London as a literary setting. Ackroyd is an English biographer...
Literature Review: Introducing Marxism: A Graphic Guide by Rupert Woodfin
Introducing Marxism is one of a collection of small guidebooks published by Icon Books. The Introducing series offers a selection of...
Literature Review: Nightwalking by Matthew Beaumont
Matthew Beaumont, currently a professor at University College London, is the author of Nightwalking. Beaumont's research interests cover...
Analysis of Poe's The Man of the Crowd
The Man of the Crowd was written in 1845 by Edgar Allan Poe. It is the tale of an inquisitorial episode experienced by an unnamed...
Blindfolded
I have been blindfolded, shoved in a car, and thrown out at an unknown location. I have no idea where I am or what distance from home I...
Concept Piece - In The Grass
Grass is tickling my body. I lay on my back gazing at the vast, sunny blue sky. It’s peppered with a few fluffy white clouds that...
Literature Review: The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
French theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, former member of the Letterist International and founding father of the Situationist...
Literature Review: The History of the Countryside by Oliver Rackham
Oliver Rackham was a prominent author and academic. His interests – among several – were concerned with nature, ecology, trees, woodland,...
Bo Peep Farm
Hot. I’m sitting on a knee-high section of black plastic tubing and my arse is burning. The super-heated tube I have found myself using...