The word limbo, signifying a state of waiting and uncertainty, used to be the name of a theologically-based location. Sean Sheehan It was a place, neither Heaven nor Hell, an in-between spot in God’s landscape that had a geographical exactitude: existing on the border of Hell – the […]
Culture
Our bodies as better than other bodies
Oppressed and victimized communities do not need telling about the body’s vulnerability to harm. Covid-19 has extended this awareness to just about everyone, making this a timely moment to look again at William Reich. This is what Oliva Laing does in “Everybody: a book about freedom”. Sean Sheehan […]
The Dylan industry
The James Joyce Foundation in Zurich is deservedly well known to devotees of the writer and one large room there is filled from floor to ceiling with over five thousand books: not just various editions and translations of Joyce’s work but bibliographies, biographies, monographs, literary criticism, dissertations, essays and reference […]
Dreaming with open eyes
The opening chapter of this strange novel, “A voyage to Arcturus”, describes a seance in London, attended by two characters called Maskull and Nightspore. Sean Sheehan The medium is asked to account for his confidence that a manifestation will occur. “I dream with open eyes”, he replies, “and […]
But where are you really from?
This is the name of a three-part series of short film screenings and workshops by mixed heritage filmmakers, celebrating films and generating conversation on identity, heritage labels, language, significance of names and the “good immigrant” trope. The multicultural work is the creation of Tape Collective who, before a UK-wide […]