ANDY’S BLOG
A collection of thoughts, reminders, ideas and mental wonderings / wanderings.
BBC - ‘One Pair of Eyes’ - Georgia Brown’s “Who Are the Cockneys Now?”, 1968
"Who Are the Cockneys Now?" is a 1968 documentary from the BBC series One Pair of Eyes, featuring singer and actress Georgia Brown. In this episode, Brown returns to her childhood neighbourhood of Whitechapel in East London to explore how the area has changed since World War II. She specifically examines the decline of the once-dominant Jewish immigrant community and its relationship with the new wave of diverse immigrants…
Video - BBC Ideas - What Is Hauntology? And Why Is It All Around Us?
‘Hauntology‘ is an open ended term coined by the philosopher Jacques Derrida in the early 1990’s in his book ‘Spectres of Marx’ (1993). Created as a portmanteau of the words ‘haunting‘ and ‘ontology‘ [the philosophical study of being] producing a word to describe the study of a spectral, ghostly, version of being - the figure of the ghost as that which is neither present, nor absent …
"The Slow Death Of Purposeless Walking" - BBC Article By Finlo Rohrer
I've been pointed towards a BBC news magazine article from 2014, "The Slow Death of Purposeless Walking" by Finlo Rohrer.
The article asks "[a] number of recent books have lauded the connection between walking - just for its own sake - and thinking. But are people losing their love of the purposeless walk?" …
"An Occult Psychogeography of Hawksmoor’s London Churches" - the Bohemian Blog
I've been following the writings and explorations of the 'Bohemian Blog' [now known as Ex Utopia] for a while and this following post is a great example of just how engaging one person's walk can be when given a curious frame to hang on. The writer has used the work of Alan Moore's "From Hell" as a starting point …
