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These are times of the signs

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]