Surrealism lurks in the city – resting, hiding, waiting to be noticed, observed, called forth into recognition. Steve Latham These are times of the signs, random suggestions, inviting us to enter the serendipity of found significances, a conceptual equivalent of ‘found art’. To locate the oddness, even amidst […]
EdgeNotes
EdgeNotes
Bullying, a reality for many children
I distinctly remember walking down the road from the railway station on the way home from school, the spit dripping down the back of my coat as the other boys spat huge gobs at my retreating figure. Steve Latham This was merely one episode in the bullying that […]
Another chapter in the story of migration
As thousands of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers cross over from Asia and Africa into Europe, it throws up resonances with the movement of peoples through history. Steve Latham The drift of peoples has frequently been from the East into the European peninsula, with the original settlement of human […]
Acceptance from self and from others
Tony Attwood is a renowned world expert on Autism and Asperger Syndrome. He travels the world teaching professionals how to encourage people with these conditions. Steve Latham His is not an ivory tower specialisation, however, since his own son has Aspergers. His advice comes, then, with the added […]
Sex and antagonistic pluralism
In a post-structuralist, post-modern, cultural world, sexual identity as an idea has itself become questionable. Instead of a ‘natural’ exual identity, the notion has developed that sexual identity is socially constructed. Steve Latham Before the nineteenth century homosexuals did not exist. Perhaps I should explain. Michel Foucault famously […]