Neither USe Nor Ornament: A Memoir of Bolton: 1920's

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The Centre’s work privileges critical approaches to thinking that move beyond academic interdisciplinarity. Its work in key areas of research interest - Sensory Studies, Ecologies and Aesthetics, Institutional Analysis, the Critical and the Clinical - exemplify an understanding of theory that emphasises the importance of its transversal links with the present. Odilon Escapes From The Charcoal Oblivion. But Endeavours To Return And Rescue The Cactus Men (18:39) In support of the Digital Cultures Research Network, we welcomed Dr Crystal Abidin all the way from Deakin University in Australia where she is a Lecturer in Communication. Dr Abidin is a digital anthropologist and we invited her to give a talk about her most recent book, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online which takes a truly global perspective on viral stars, meme personalities and 'influencers' on social media.

Not All Surfaces Catch The Light At The Same Time– A curated selection of blog posts by Sonia Boue, written during the NUNO project (PDF) WEBworks – a mentor’s view– A short essay written by Miranda Millward, in response to the NUNO project. (PDF)Artist and performer, Naomi Morris used the #NUNO project to research her practice and explore new outcomes and new venues for her work. Watch Naomi’s research residency video here.

Ecology in its broadest sense, encompassing social, subjective, unconscious, affective, and sensory processes The exhibition ran from 30th March to 28th of April 2019 at OVADA, Oxford. The launch was well attended and extremely well-received. Visits from the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, and MP Annalise Dodds were among the highlights. The exhibition itself, two performances by Naomi Morris, and a live poetry reading by Rhiannon Lloyd-Williams created many memorable moments. Psychoanalysis and related research, especially Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, Guattari, institutional psychotherapy and ‘schizoanalysis’, critical interest in hypnosis, ethnopsychiatryPoet, playwright and #NUNO artist Rhiannon Lloyd Williams wrote about her experience of being part of the project. Read Rhiannon’s blog post here. Noise in a Tropical Underground: Global and Situated Aesthetics in Experimental Music on Java', Sanne Krogh Groth (7th November 2018): Science, Technology and culture, with particular reference to software, experimental metaphysics (Latour, Stengers) and media theoretical approaches to technology New materialist, object-oriented and more-than-human theory, with specific reference to questions of non-human agency and the ‘stuffliness’ of human life The penultimate meeting in the Nottingham-Dublin Lacanian Studies Series saw Geert Hoornaert, a psychoanalyst who teaches at Ghent and works at Le Courtil, taking us through his reading of Lacan's fifth seminar based on the concept of the 'senseof life' during the workshop in the morning. In the afternoon, Geert offered constructions of three cases which showed how flexible and adaptable psychoanalysis needs to be in the diverse institutional spaces in which clinical work takes place today.