I'm interested in the concepts of "love", "past", "loss" and "text"; latest work on the dialectic between "solidarity" and "detachment" in the contemporary novel through an exploration of the tropes of "meta-love", "pastness" and what I call the "reinsurgency of metaphysics" (see www.novel-conference.co.uk).
Teaching research expertise thus far include:
20th Century and contemporary European Literature (esp. the novel in Britain, France, Germany, Greece); Woolf studies; Anglo-American modernism (fiction, poetry, drama, critical thought and culture); Classical Greek philosophy (esp. Plato [and 20th-century critical responses to his work] and Aristotle); Critical and Cultural Theory (particularly structuralism, post-structuralism, Marxist theory); British and European Hellenism; the Greek Epic and classical Greek drama; the tragedians (especially Euripides) and Attic Comedy (especially Aristophanes);
__ 19th and early 20th-century constructions of sexuality (particularly homosexual representations in late 19th-century British literature and culture).
Music
Duran Duran; David Bowie; Suede; Goldfrapp; Roxy Music; Nick Cave; Ilya; Brett Anderson; Bernard Butler; Satie, Elgar, Rachmaninov
Movies
Mostly European cinema: France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Greece
Television
comedy; channel 4 news ... NO reality TV, NO game shows, NO Cowell...
About me: "I think one is always in love with something or other; the error, and I confess it is not easy for spirits cased in flesh and blood to avoid it, consists in seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is perhaps eternal".
P.B.Shelley
Who I'd like to meet: Seeking to establish a network with thinkers, dancers, musicians, cooks, writers, ballerinas, cleaners, comrades, - you get the idea. No religious fanatics please (OF ANY CREED, that is; particularly, the violent ones). More specifically, I would rather NOT meet people who:
a) claim that "they are not racist", but "that Britain is over-populated as it is and that if foreigners come here then they should be like us"
b) think of "philosophy" as an alternative term for "new age"
c) discriminate against gay men and lesbian women.
If you'd like to come to our next gig, we're opening the nights music @ The Freebutt, Thusday 2nd Oct. We're supporting The Chapman Family who played at Glastonbury so its gonna be a great night! Further support Gentleman Starkey, and Kept By Casino
Doors open @ 7:30, we'll be on at 8 so dont be late!! Ticket link on our page - £5.50 Let us know if you need any more info :)
It would be great if you could come to the St James Tavern on Thurs 20th Dec for our Christmas Psycho Trash Bash. DJs Neil-By-Mouth Vs Blackleaf will be playing the trashiest Xmas tracks from punk,surf,rockabilly,blues,rock'n'roll to garage and grind all the best Chris xxx
I recommend it, "Theo's Coffee and Cigarette Respite", you just need to be a good friend of Theo's. When you can't light a cigarette at a Gogol Bordello concert the divide between life and art in this country is all too crushingly clear. Says I.
Just to let you know we're playing at the Brighton Barfly this Monday (Oct 1st). Great venue, great bands! Entry is a few quid. If you need any more info just message us back :)
Hia Theodore .. that is such great news that Rehab messiah is still being played! Please check out our new album Hootchi Cootchi and other wonderful stuff :) See links below ( not that you can miss them!) Lovely to meet you, X Joanna
