“History will absolve me”, the title of Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s self-defence in 1953, is now available to thousands of Ecuadorians. It was Casa Eguez Cultural Centre, in the centre of Quito, that promoted the publication of the text, written by the Cuban fighter during the trial in which […]
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The disappearing world of the Penans
A brief encounter with a Penan is burned into my memory. I was following a pathway, a mere stroll before darkness fell in the Kelabit Highlands in Sarawak where I was on a two-day trek. Sean Sheehan He stepped out of the trees on one side, about to […]
City Time, or ‘spending time in the city’
Thinking more about the nature of urban time, following from my two previous columns, I realise there is an expression of simultaneity in the city’s plurality. Steve Latham There are so many time-lines, happening at the same ‘time’; no single mapping of meaning onto the diversity, but a […]
Troy: myths and realities
The exhibition currently on show at the British Museum is called Troy: Myth and Reality but some plurals could have been used. Multiple myths and realities, some of an urgently contemporary kind, have created more than one Troy. Sean Sheehan An ancient city close to the northwest coast […]
Urban renewal: the psychological dimension
Meditation is the route to enlightenment, of the outer, urban, context, as well as the inner, personal, condition. Steve Latham Paul Virilio, coined the term ‘Dromology’ to describe the scientifc-philosophical investigation of speed in contemporary experience. And this is the nature of the ‘urbiverse’ we live in. To […]















